Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Miguel de Cervantes

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Miguel de Cervantes

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Neil Gaiman

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

Neil Gaiman

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

John Tillotson

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

John Steinbeck

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

John Steinbeck

Courage and fear were one thing too.

John Steinbeck

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

Conor Oberst

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Conor Oberst

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Daniel Defoe

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.