Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

She would always be my biggest what if.

Tucker Max

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

Willa Cather

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Werner Erhard

The important question to ask is not 'Will we surivive?' but 'What if we survive?'

Robin McKinley

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Mike Lupica

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

Kathy Reichs

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

Newt Gingrich

What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

Matt Groening

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Peter Singer

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Richelle Mead

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

Richard Bach

Perspective: use it or lose it.

Truman Capote

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

William Nicholson

Use your power gently.