Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Garrett

'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Blanche Lincoln

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Alexander McCall Smith

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

William Shakespeare

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

William Shakespeare

Greatness knows itself.

Bertrand Russell

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Cher Lloyd

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.