Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Proverb Proverb

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

E. Hicks

He has no self-doubt whatsoever. Not an ounce of it,

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Mark Elston

They've got 14 seniors. They're enormous. They have three lineman who are well over 300 pounds and they have some quick secondary people.

Bob Ernst

They really do some pounding on each other out on the water.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Turkish Proverb

A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go.

Cheryl Dixon

After I stopped smoking, the pounds stayed on.

Jim Connors

Pound for pound, ... the smallest one down there.

Brian Brohm

That's what Mike's going to do. He's a big guy. He'll pound away and pound away.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Alan Moore

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Chogyam Trungpa

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Edward Jenner

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Tim O'Brien

It's a souvenir. You never know, it may be worth something on eBay.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.

Robyn Mooney

It wasn't worth getting into a gunfight over it.

Corey Pavin

I've never done anything like it, ... It's more than worth it.

Marissa Nowakowski

It was well worth the wait. (Being a senior) made it all the better.

Darin Erstad

It was a long day, but well worth it. It was really good. It was great.

E. B. White

This is excellent, ... This is worth a whole lot to me.

Mark Kantrowitz

This is a no-brainer. It's worth your while to consolidate now.