Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Richard Whately

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Robert Ringer

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Samuel Johnson

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Samuel Johnson

All envy is proportionate to desire.

William Hogarth

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Michael Luxner

There are so many pianists that play so well. Once they're at that level, the judging is so subjective.

Lord Shaftesbury

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

Rob Zombie

A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.

Rob Brown

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

Richard P. Feynman

The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

Richard Dawkins

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Travis Pastrana

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.

William Law

A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.

William J. Brennan

Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Anton LaVey

All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what's going on, is the freedom to create and entertain and share with each other, to preserve and cherish what we can while we can, and to build our own little citadels away from the insensitivity of the rest of the world.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Robert Collier

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.