Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Baxter

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

Russell Brand

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Emmanuil Kaidanov

It's nice, but it is the opinion of those people who take the poll.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Joey Logano

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Robyn Davidson

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.