Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Neil Simon

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Linus Torvalds

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Alberto Manguel

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Albert Einstein

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Albert Einstein

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Albert Einstein

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Pierre Omidyar

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Joel Osteen

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

Jonathan Evison

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

Jonathan Edwards

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Jonas Mekas

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

Jonah Goldberg

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.