Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mapother

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Sara Evans

Even the wise need wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Faulkner

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Raymond E. Feist

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Richard Francis Burton

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

Richard Gere

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Aidan Quinn

I think it's a pretty down-the-middle, wholesome show.

Jose Saramago

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

Tama Janowitz

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Magic Johnson

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

Cesare Pavese

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Robert Holden

Whenever you heal any relationship, your whole life improves - and that counts for double with family.

Mike White

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

Euclid

And the whole is greater than the part.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

Mausumi Dikpati

It is the measure of this memory of past cycles that allows us to make a forecast.

Paul Dergarabedian

There are these cycles in Hollywood. Part of that is once there's one success, everyone tries to emulate the success,

Michael Geeser

Every year, we see cycles where prices go up and down and up again. What we've seen in 2006 is that cycle of the ups and downs has happened much earlier than usual.

Ken Kam

Every year the market has cycles like this. Every year, the market has wild optimism and wild pessimism.

Neil Strother

Security features will always take processing cycles from users' systems.

Alan Levenson

I don't think we're in danger of going back to the kind of cycles of the '70s or the late '80s. I think the economy is still quite flexible.

Steve Phillips

You can do two different cycles at the same time. It's great for singles or older people. The single drawer, especially, is great for those with handicaps.

Bob Beauprez

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

E. B. White

When we launched (Lean Cuisine), it was all about low calories, leg warmers and Jane Fonda. Then it was about low cholesterol and low fat - the cycles are happening faster and faster.