Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

Max Stirner

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Michael Jackson

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.

Mark Leary

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

Walt Whitman

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Eric Lander

About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.

Richard Preston

An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Elliott Sadler

I noticed a lot of guys were not slamming into each other. Eighty percent of it in the 150 is protecting your 500 car.

Roy Acuff

Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

John Pickett

I'm not really sure what the market is showing us here, ... Seven hundred and eighty million shares: That's not a lot.

Pat Peterson

Eighty to 90 percent of spam now have URLs.

Dennis Prager

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

Dennis Prager

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Dennis Prager

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Mason Cooley

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

Gena Showalter

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Sri Aurobindo

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Tom Robbins

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Mason Cooley

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Don Lynn

About 99 percent of the returns are electronically filed.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Jalen Rose

You're a win streak away from striking distance.

Frank Berry

We're just trying to keep the streak going. We're just trying to keep getting better until we get to Nationals.

Pat Bowlin

I didn't talk about the streak all week. I didn't want to use it as motivation.

Ben Gordon

We were 5-10 before this game, and that's just unacceptable at home. We have to turn that around and try to get a streak going.

Drew Brees

I don't look at it that we're 2-2. We won two in a row. We've just got to keep that streak going,

Scott Linebrink

Hopefully, this year's the same thing. Get the first one out of the way. But it's not like you're trying to keep a streak going.

Kevin Towers

There've been times when I said, 'Who are we?'  ... But right when I started to wonder who we really were, we'd put together a streak that was not too bad.

Keith Tkachuk

It's unbelievable; it's frustrating. You don't want to use excuses, but (the injuries) are a big part of it. But nobody's quitting. We're just in a tough streak right now and we have to find our way out of it.

Avery Johnson

You think a streak is never going to come to an end. When it does, it doesn't feel good.