Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Wentworth Miller

All he has is his wits. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any Jackie Chan martial-arts moves, ... And every episode, his planning and preparation and cleverness run smack into the wall of fate, chance, accident, human nature -- things you can't predict or prepare for.

Muhammad Muharram

Education ...it is a worldwide concept which lead to creation of MANY educated people but FEW intellectuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever.

Oscar Wilde

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

James M. Barrie

Oh, the cleverness of me!

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Hu Jintao

It is only through the road of peaceful development that the progress of the human race and the prosperity of a nation shall and can be achieved,

Lynda Resnick

Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.

Kari Koch

It went excellent. I'm not lying. I said I didn't want to come here because of that speech. I saw Jackie (Stiles) do it and it made me nervous.

Willie Randolph

I've got pictures of Jackie in my office. I reflect on things like that every day.

Lydia Leonard

I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.

Jim Coleman

So you've been wondering about Jackie Robinson, eh?

Hugh Campbell

It would have invalidated making the team if Jackie Parker wasn't on the team

Maureen O'Hara

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

Felipe Alou

If they did it with Jackie Robinson already, they should do that for the Latin American players. And who's better than Roberto? ... No one is better than him.

Willie Mays

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Wilbur

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Truman Capote

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Trevor Noah

No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.

Winston Churchill

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

William Osler

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Julio Franco

I'm not worried about records. I'm planning to play for a long time.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

Roger Maris

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Napoleon Hill

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

Yogi Berra

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Kaiser Chiefs

I Predict A Riot / Sink That Ship

James Bell

You can't predict what's going to happen. We'll take it a day at a time and see what happens.

Murray Gell-Mann

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Larry Niven

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.

David Sanderson

We're prepared to sit down and talk, I'm not quite sure they're ready to talk yet.

Kevan Barlow

Regardless if it's Terrell Owens or Marvin Harrison, we are going to prepare the same way.

Deion Sanders

I prepare to win, I prepare to dominate, I prepare to conquer, ... I prepare to win it all, and that's one of the reasons I'm here.

Roland Mesnier

In the White House, you have to be prepared for any eventuality.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

ReShard Lee

I really don't know the situation. All I can do is prepare and be ready when called on.

James Rogan

I'm prepared to win and I'm prepared to lose, but I'm not prepared to sell out my principles,

Bill Cowher

I'm prepared to latch on to his coattails and ride him for a long time.

Lonnie Bartley

I had to go into the season prepared not to have her. So we had a plan.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Robert Gilmore

It all starts with who we got running the country,

Andy Reid

He can run, ... This doesn't stop him from running the football.

Stewart Simonson

We are going to run out of things we're not used to running out of.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Steve Walker

He's about as tough a runner as they come,

Joe Nelson

He's a big kid, who, for his size, is agile, runs well and is still powerful.

Dick LeBeau

He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Peter Krause

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Richelle Mead

Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

Russell Baker

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Russell Baker

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Ronald Ross

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.