Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Gene Hall

The lake doesn't have a bacterial problem. That's the most comforting thing.

Peter Zumthor

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

John Fowles

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

Jonathan Franzen

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

John Hodgman

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

Mahesh Babu

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

Wilson Mizner

There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.

William Greider

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Robert G. Allen

Wealth is thoughts, not things.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Jacque Fresco

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Eric S. Raymond

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

Thomas A. Edison

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

Lesley Ann Warren

Good work is good work wherever it is.

Aya Cash

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Christine Lagarde

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.