Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Brody Jenner

I feel like girls are always fighting guys off at bars, always. Usually girls don't really have to do anything except be there. And if alcohol is involved, you're gonna get hit on. No matter what.

Julie Burchill

When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Jeff Blankenship

Every player started at least one game in the HIT tournament and every player sat at least one game except for Lonnie. That's how well he's swinging the bat.

Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Simon Sinek

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Rem Koolhaas

Find optimism in the inevitable

Tony Kushner

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Jim Leach

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Adrienne Rich

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ...

Daisaku Ikeda

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Dan Miller

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

e. e. cummings

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Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

E. M. Forster

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Dorothy Day

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Andrew Bird

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Robert A. Heinlein

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.