Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

Ezra Taft Benson

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ellen Key

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Mark Twain

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

Mark Twain

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Virginia Hey

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

John C. Calhoun

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

Aron Ralston

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

M. Wolfe

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Mike Chambers

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games have been a great success for Canada. We set an aggressive goal of a top-three finish at these Games and we will leave Turin having achieved that goal.

William Allan

The acceleration in sales growth achieved in the third quarter gives us further confidence that the company will deliver enhanced revenue growth throughout the second half of the year,

Bill Coleman

We couldn't be more pleased with the business and financial results we achieved this quarter and in fiscal 2001.

Rick Kobe

We have the same goals every year. We've never achieved them, but we want to go undefeated, we want to win a conference championship and we want to have at least a 3.0 GPA. We've got two of the three a bunch, but the undefeated one is tough to do when you have some of the schools on your schedule that we do.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Donald Trump

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Kofi Annan

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

Amelia Earhart

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Clyde Tombaugh

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Carrie Fisher

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Berkeley Breathed

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Victor LaValle

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

George Santayana

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Britt Beemer

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

Lisa Wathne

Had this little lion lived, he would have been doomed to a life of extreme confinement and boredom.

John McCarthy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

David LaBahn

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

Jerome Charyn

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Nick Vitucci

That was great. Our fans have such great enthusiasm. They're the sixth man on the ice for us. It's an intimidation factor.

Erin Delaney

We have a lot of inexperienced players who have really never played the game. They were very enthusiastic about having a junior varsity team.

David Esquer

We've gotta be able to take that enthusiasm and excitement to other places, too. ... When your focus generates to another level, you say, OK, we need to harness that wherever we are.

Jerry Woods

We're very pleased with the turnout, the enthusiasm (of the attendees) and the total ambiance of the evening.

Ron Somers

U.S. industry has never been more enthusiastic about investing in India.

Ken Jennings

Most of them (the offers) were 'Where's the check?', whereas John's venture was very well funded and he just wanted me on board... He did a pretty good sales job. His enthusiasm was contagious.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Lindsey Jacobellis

I was having fun. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the crowd. Stuff happens. It's just a race.

G. Hannelius

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

John Caldwell

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away

Ogden Nash

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Common

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

Bethany Mota

I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Daniel Kahneman

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Frank R. Wolf

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Lauri Hakala

That way when the opponent thinks I'm going to hit it hard, I can tip the ball. That gives you another weapon.

Bill Self

That was a great victory by (A&M). It gives us a chance.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Charles Lamb

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Bill Vaughan

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

William Shakespeare

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

William Shakespeare

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

William Shakespeare

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?