Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Peck

As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.

Aldous Huxley

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Andre Agassi

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't want to die without a few scars..

Rupert Everett

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

John H. Johnson

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

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Abe Simoff

I have a lot of experience, and it's true someone 55 will be working, but they will not be working as hard as someone who is 40. I am 80, and I'm working hard, but I'm the exception to the case.

Roman Sebrle

I think I always prefer the long jump, high jump, and javelin. I don't like the 400 metres and the pole vault except when I'm really in shape.

Nate Robertson

I thought I pitched well today, except for the home runs.

Amy Locane

When I was about 3 months pregnant, I was running, looked down, and there was blood everywhere. I totally freaked out, but the doctor said everything was okay, except that I had to stop running.

Mark Caine

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Orhan Pamuk

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

James L. Brooks

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

Howie Mandel

Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Undersheriff Hudson

She signs the statement. She has me write it out; she doesn't want to write it out. By the way, she didn't want it recorded; I gave her an opportunity.

Sarah Gadon

Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

Frank DeSalvo

He surrendered it. He just voluntarily gave it up, forever. He's going to get out of the business.

George Parnham

A woman with this notoriety, with this type of offense charged, would be at risk ... I have grave, grave concerns.

Christopher Morley

Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard

Sinead O'Connor

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Jonathan Schwartz

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

John Felmy

I've got grave concerns, ... I thought we had learned this lesson 25 years ago.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Brendan Taman

We've never been in this situation before where there's a month left in the season and you're living on a mathematical wing and a prayer.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Charles Adams

If an S and an I and an O and a U - With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, - Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G - And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do, But to g

Dito Montiel

My mother left my father in their late 60s.

Bill Dixon

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Wayne Jackson

That win was very sweet to us. A lot of people had left us for dead.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Lionel Richie

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Gene Luen Yang

The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

John Pomfret

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

Andre Leon Talley

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to wear when it's time to go out and put on the Ritz!

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.

Rig Veda

People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.