Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Tobias

There's no such thing as altruism.

Joan Silk

Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand the thoughts and desires of others.

Linda Wright

Kevin convinced us that his motivation was one of pure altruism and that it was important to him to help a stranger in this way.

Isabella Rossellini

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Isabella Rossellini

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Pierre Lacroix

With this acquisition, we are convinced that we are securing our goaltending position for many years.

Charles Moose

We're still not convinced we've heard from people we want to talk to, ... We still want to hear from people.

Steve Bruce

They have just gone out of Europe so I am convinced they will want to try and win this competition, that's for sure. Whatever team they put out, when Man United come to town, it is going to be a tough, tough game but one that we will relish and we will look forward to the challenge.

Chuck Schumer

They have convinced us that the likelihood of real progress ... is very real.

Richard Remus

They had him for 48 hours and finally they convinced him what he should say.

Robert Huber

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Bob Odenkirk

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Trevor McDonald

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Daniel Gillies

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Bert Blyleven

I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.

Mike Gansey

Every game, they're going to try to take Kevin and I out of the game.

Dennis Ward

At this point, it looks like Kevin Helfer has pulled ahead,

Amanda Peet

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

Kevin Mitnick

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Kevin Mitnick

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Charles Spurgeon

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are.

Alan Watts

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Alan Watts

The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

Alan Watts

If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.

Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

Alain Prost

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Jake Johnson

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Boyd Holbrook

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

Alain de Botton

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Edmund Spenser

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Dustin Hoffman

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

Ann Brashares

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Cullen Hightower

Strangers are what friends are made of.

Dan Brown

The truth, however, was stranger still.