Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Aristotle Onassis

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

Edmund Burke

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Deb Caletti

I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

Diana Gabaldon

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

Ed Koch

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Augusto Roa Bastos

There is always time to take more time.

Augusten Burroughs

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

Benjamin Disraeli

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Ben Elton

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

C. S. Lewis

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Clyde Edgerton

Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.

Coco Chanel

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Elizabeth Janeway

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Elias Canetti

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Arthur Helps

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Nancy Roman

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

Sean M. Carroll

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.

V. E. Schwab

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

When you are dating someone new, you will not see their true colors until you've let them have their way.

Adlai E. Stevenson

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

We advise them (Europe) not to choose any path except dialogue. If there is a retribution to be paid, that will include Europe too.

We advise people that this city has been destroyed, it has completely been destroyed.

Tom Morgan with the North Carolina Forest Service got me started back in 1964. He drew up my first plan. From there, he made a lot of suggestions for me to follow. Some I did, and some I did not. Then, Bill Holmes drew up my second plan. He was with Stone Container. Somewhere in this time, I joined the Weyerhaeuser Company Tree Farm Family Program, and they gave me technical advice that was good.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.

Arthur Smith

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

Tony Gwynn

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

We deny the allegations that he did this on advice of counsel.

We delivered a message to all rental car companies asking them to advise customers not to drive to the North Shore. As much as possible, we need to keep the roads clear for emergency vehicles.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.