Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Giles

Hoffman just made a mistake and put something over the plate I could hit,

Ned Yost

He's as tough as they come. He doesn't make mistakes.

Dave Loos

I thought we were going to win. ... We made some mistakes but we played awfully hard.

Jeff Scott

I think through the mistakes they've made, they understand the process a little better.

Bruce Miller

I think they made a mistake by having the rally on a work day. It would have been better to have it on a Saturday or Sunday.

Bill Gray

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

Pavol Demitra

We made too many mistakes, it was everybody. We look like we are so nervous, like we don't want to play.

John Gibbons

He wasn't real sharp. But they have a good-hitting club. They make you pay if you make mistakes and that's what it was.

Ray Rivera

He made that one mistake. What can you do?

Richard Hooker

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

Richard Rohr

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Robyn Carr

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

Robert Silverberg

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Samuel Johnson

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.

Samuel Johnson

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

Walker Percy

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Samuel Smiles

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Josh Brolin

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

Publilius Syrus

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Margaret Atwood

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Terry Tempest Williams

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.