Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Dale Carnegie

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

Daniel S. Loeb

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Thomas a Kempis

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Joshua Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I never said I was consistent.

Peabo Bryson

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.