Famous Quotes & Sayings

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

T. D. Jakes

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

Sydney J. Harris

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Sylvester Stallone

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in the seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be one, he must approve of the homage of reason rather than that of blindfolded fear...Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.

Tony Robbins

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

Tony Robbins

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

Tony Robbins

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

Tony Blair

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Joe DiMaggio

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Joyce Carol Oates

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

Jill Soloway

As much as possible, I put my family first.

Ed Fox

This family is going through not just a single incident but a nightmare that's never ending. A fine like that is nothing.

Jayme Braasch

This family has been devastated. Their life just got completely rearranged. It's relieving to know they are in Wisconsin now. It is unbelievable.

Alice McDermott

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alfred Molina

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

Alex Ebert

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Aldo Leopold

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.

Ali Liebegott

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Ali Smith

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Alexander Herzen

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Josh Miller

We want to be out there as much as players and managers want us to be out there. We do this job because we love it. It's not to get rich or to get famous. But we also have to survive.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Sonakshi Sinha

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

Erinn Smart

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Angelina Jolie

We'll be on our way to Pakistan in a matter of days.

Ephraim Sneh

This partnership has reached its end. It is just a matter of weeks.

Manny Lawson

It really shouldn't matter where we play because all that matters is who we play. It's a game, and that's all it's going to come down to.

Donna Baker

They're all different. It's artwork. No matter what you order, it's not going to be the same.

Chris Henderson

We consciously set out to not be a Southern rock band. It was a matter of time before it'd all come back around. We're still not a Southern rock band, but we've got those influences.