Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Proverb

Some things are better praised by silence than by remark

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

Tom Patton

We have come off a really remarkable year.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Marty Schottenheimer

The quarterback is unbelievable. Some of the throws he made, I just shook my head. He is one remarkable player.

Yeardley Smith

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

Pete Carroll

He shocks me every day with something. He's done some things, remarkable things, with the ball.

Richard Durbin

He has the right to say what he believes, ... but all of us should be denouncing these remarks as totally irresponsible.

Gilbert Metcalf

He made a bet. I think he was successful. That was a remarkable achievement.

Cecelia Ahern

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Antoine Rivarol

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Antoine Rivarol

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

William Shakespeare

The rest, is silence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

Bebe Neuwirth

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.

E. F. Schumacher

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.