Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I have a passion for big cats, I like big snakes. There is something about snakes that is so wise, they have this uncanny perfection. I'd like to get inside their reptilian heads.

Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Richard Hooker

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

Richard Whately

When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

Richelle Mead

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Russell Lynes

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

Russell Lynes

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Russell Lynes

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Russell Lynes

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice...

William Zinsser

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.

Richard Gere

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

Roger Babson

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Sasha Azevedo

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

Sara Shepard

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

Will Smith

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

Wayne Dyer

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.

Walt Kelly

You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Josephine Baker

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can insult you without your permission.

Tariq Ramadan

I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang)