Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Dale Evans

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Dale Carnegie

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

Colin Powell

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Reggie Evans

If you do your normal routine, you tend just to focus on that. You're not really thinking about (the test).

Rod Barnes

I think our kids are working hard. My focus is to make sure we move forward and get better.

Mike Commodore

I think our focus is very good on the road. We don't have any distractions. We stick to our systems, we keep it simple. I think that's why. Maybe it's something else, I don't know, but when it comes right down to it, it's our focus.

Lindsay McCargar

I just don't think our focus was there (on the game).

Cindy Sheehan

I put myself out there, and I'm willing to take it. But I think the focus has been on the messenger and not the message.

Charlie Bell

By keeping our focus on our customers, McDonald's competitive position is strengthening, ... McDonald's U.S. performance for the month and quarter was particularly impressive considering the hurricanes and heavy rains.

Larry Silverstein

Clearly, there are some issues that need to be resolved. But for today, my focus, like that of all New Yorkers, is on getting the Freedom Tower underway.

Joe Horn

Being for real, it's not about the New Orleans Saints; it's about those people sitting on those cots, trying to find their kids. We love the people around the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We're going to do what we have to do to win football games. But the game is the game. Afterward, our focus is right back on New Orleans.

Steve Pikiell

His focus wasn't on what is important. Forget about the NBA, he needs to get his degree.