Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Louis D. Brandeis

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

B. F. Skinner

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

Ben Jonson

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Kobe Bryant

We just didn't execute. We need to man up and not make excuses.

Martin Luther

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

Peter Andre

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

Shayne Ward

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Okay, I don’t like it when you walk away from me, but other than that...(Arik) Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension to come here and I brush you off. I can see where that might get annoying. (Geary)

Nora Roberts

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

Mort Sahl

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

Monica Lewinsky

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Marianne Williamson

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

Mario Cuomo

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

Sarah Burton

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

Sara Blakely

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Alexander Pope

Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

Alexander Pope

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Alexander Pope

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

Alexander Pope

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.