Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Al Oerter

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Edith Wharton

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Mitchell Posin

It seems like what Bret's saying makes sense.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.