Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Thomas Horn

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Thomas Sowell

Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.

Thomas Sowell

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

Robert McKee

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Sammy Hagar

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

T. Harv Eker

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

T. D. Jakes

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

T. D. Jakes

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Eminem

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Peter Lynch

I think Coca-Cola needs a rest. Some phases of the market, some of the big stocks are in that category.

James Ellis

Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.

James Dickey

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

Jared Leto

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

Janet Evanovich

One Ranger is all you'll ever need. - Ranger

Janet Evanovich

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman." -Ranger to Stephanie

Janet Evanovich

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.