Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Carolla

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Matthew Perry

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Mark Shields

Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

Patricia Cornwell

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

Patricia Cornwell

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Patricia Briggs

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Philip Zimbardo

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Lee Child

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

Ray Rice

You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.

Randy Travis

Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.

Thomas Jefferson

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Rick Riordan

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Rick Riordan

A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

Tony Robbins

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Simon Sinek

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.