Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

C. S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Malala Yousafzai

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

Robert Kiyosaki

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Robert Kiyosaki

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Robert Kiyosaki

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

Robert Kiyosaki

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

Robert Kiyosaki

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Petra Nemcova

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

John Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Brandon Roy

I don't think it's a big secret that he'll be leaving.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.