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.

Robert Forney

I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Anatoly Karpov

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Plato

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

It is typically Norwegian to be good

Pete Conrad

If you can’t be good, be colorful.

Marcus Aurelius

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Louis D. Brandeis

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

Jane Fonda

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

Brigham Young

Learn to be good for something.

Hillary Clinton

It is essential that America's word be good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

Cassandra Clare

So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.