Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

A. A. Milne

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Aeschylus

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Anna C. Brackett

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Casey Wilson

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

Joe Madureira

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Laura Linney

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

John Piper

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Deepak Chopra

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Pankaj Mishra

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Author unknown

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.