Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

William Ellery Channing

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Richard Preston

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Ryan Whitney

I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident.

Mahatma Gandhi

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?

Larry Gelbart

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Novak Djokovic

No, I have something else between my legs.

Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Epictetus

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Bret Bielema

It was an opportunity for them to get their legs back under them.

Jarret Stoll

It's going to be an important March for us, an important March for everybody. It's going to be important for us to get our legs under us right away.

Carly Rae Jepsen

You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'

Roald Dahl

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

Yogi Berra

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.

Neale Donald Walsch

If I do not go within, I go without.

Kevin Bacon

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

Napoleon Hill

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'...

Norman Spinrad

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.