Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Wilson

We haven't been sold on the necessity of this,

John Milton

With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

Dave Wilson

The necessity of the median has never really been justified.

Bryan Moore

It's not just a road for pleasure, but it's a necessity.

William Shakespeare

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

Cristina Correa

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Wendy Kopp

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

David Friedman

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Chris Crutcher

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

Carrie Underwood

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

Carl Rogers

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Carl Rogers

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

Carl Sagan

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Acquaint thyself with God.

Edgar Allan Poe

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Cornelia Funke

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Bible Bible

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.