Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Ben Lindsey

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Alain Rene Le Sage

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Thomas Fuller

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, where better is expected

Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Eugene McCarthy

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Frederick Douglass

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....

Franz Grillparzer

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Erich Fromm

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

Fulton J. Sheen

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

David Byrne

It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health.

Janet Williams

It's great to be named at No.,1 but even without this list Cummins has a decades-long commitment to being environmentally friendly and making the company a diverse and welcoming workplace,

Javier Solana

I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.

Chris Baldwin

It takes a lot of commitment but it was a family thing. It's good for everybody to do together, and they all become your family. It's one of the most important things in our lives, and we're rewarded every day.

Gayle Falkenthal

It takes a high level of training and commitment skills to represent the Red Cross outside of the United States.

Kofi Annan

It will no doubt require long-term commitment on the part of the international community to see this process to a successful conclusion,

Karan Bhatia

The U.S. is prepared to use all necessary tools to secure China's compliance with its WTO commitments. Hopefully we'll be able to work through these problems without going to litigation.

Ewan McGregor

I was quite interested to do television series and I started exploring an idea of a longer commitment, a new idea, a new TV show that would've meant a longer commitment but I opened my mind up.

Mary Harron

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.