Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Robert Burns

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.

Robert Browning

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Richard Steele

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Michael Douglas

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Serge Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Michael Pollan

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Horace Walpole

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Gloria Steinem

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

J. K. Rowling

This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.

J. K. Rowling

I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

J. K. Rowling

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

Ivan Lendl

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.