Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Nhat Hanh

When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.

Joe DiMaggio

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

Kathleen Norris

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Patrick Kelly

I've got hope, I've got dreams and I have aspirations. I don't need to climb mountains; I don't need to build nations. What I do need is the courage to look deep inside, Cos I'm me and from me I know I can't hide. I don't wish to fly, I'm quite happy to glide. I am who I am and I'll be me with pride.

Kirsty Coventry

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

Mark Twain

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Donald Trump

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.

Donald Trump

We will immediately terminate President [Barack] Obama's two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants, five million.

Donald Trump

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

Adolf Hitler

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

Adam Richman

One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.

Andy Gibb

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

Ally Carter

Give me everything you have," I told [Preston]. "Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Allen Toussaint

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Lili Taylor

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Peter Kreeft

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.