Famous Quotes & Sayings

John H. Johnson

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Chad Brown

That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play,

David Osgood

That usually takes nine months to a year from the time of the suspension, and by that time the business is gone.

Charles Brewer

That's why our students are so versatile. Those are the same skills that you'll need as a business executive, architect, librarian or social worker. There are not many jobs that require skills that psychology majors don't have.

Carl Poston

That's just the way this business goes. You never know when something will get done.

Lee Skelley

That's just part of the cost of doing business. If they're helicopter-worthy, it's free.

Ted Ludwig

That's going to be hard for them. It's not even business as usual now, and we haven't walked off the property yet.

David Strow

That's how we generate business for our resort properties. I don't think you'll see us pulling away from those markets because they remain an important part of our strategy.

Jim Alexander

That should please me because I have been in business for 31 years and that law doesn't pertain to me -- but it doesn't please me because it restrains trade.

Greg Graham

That's hard for JC guys to do, graduate in two-plus years. They've taken care of business in the classroom and have really matured and are getting things set for their future.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thomas Hobbes

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Victor Hugo

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Victor Hugo

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

Victor Hugo

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Vernon Howard

You must never fear anything at all.

Veronica Roth

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Amos Oz

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

James Wolpert

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche.

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Stephen Bennett

Intuit posted strong revenue growth and even stronger profit growth during the third quarter. The company's performance positions us to end the year on track to meet our stated revenue and pro forma profit goals.

John Corey Whaley

I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Barbara Sher

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Robin Horton

Every day I wake up, I think of my brothers. I pray for them. I tell them how much I miss them, how much I love them.

Malaika Arora Khan

At the end of the day, TV is my first love. I started off my career from the small screen.

Kenneth Jackson

Couldn't get nothing better. She's going to love it.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

Victor Borge

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Freda Adler

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

Maggie Kuhn

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Jimmy Carter

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

Emily Dickinson

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.