Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Powers

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Tupac Shakur

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Tupac Shakur

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Wallace Stegner

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

Samuel Beckett

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Walton Goggins

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Rod Serling

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

John Cena

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

Eric Holder

I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Richard P. Feynman

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Muqtada al Sadr

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Lake Bell

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Manuel Puig

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Khaled Mashaal

As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right.

Khaled Meshal

As long as we are under occupation then it is our right to resist.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.