Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry B. Eyring

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose .

Helen Hayes

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Henry Hazlitt

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

Henry Hazlitt

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Hector Hugh Munro

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Henry David Thoreau

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Henry Ford

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

Morgan Brittany

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Milan Kundera

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Mara Wilson

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

Marcel Proust

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

Jose Rizal

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

Jose Saramago

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

Jose Marti

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Jorge Luis Borges

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Jorge Luis Borges

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

Louise Fletcher

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

You know, most of these girls were in third, fourth, fifth grade. Even at that age, though, they experienced the excitement of going down to Indy with their parents. That's where these things start, you know? That's when kids start dreaming.

You could almost see it coming. When it rains it pours. Granted, I'm pitching well and my ERA is dropping, but you want wins. Everybody knows I'm a free agent and pitching for a job next year. When you're not getting the wins you should get, it makes you feel like punching a wall.

Stephen Graham Jones

You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

China Machado

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.

You can't project how they're going to do until they're full grown, ... The physical, mental and emotional demands for an NFL player are extraordinary. That's why you see relatively few underclassmen reach the NFL and succeed. Even if you lowered the age limit, that fact wouldn't change.

You can only march so many times. Immigrants have come of age and it's time to settle the problem.

The majority of large brokerages do not have a comprehensive CRM product available to their agents. Those agents have had to sign up for Top Producer or use Outlook or whatever.

Oprah Winfrey

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can t. Anonymous I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

Cory Smith

The magnitude of this just stops you in your tracks. It's really brought the animal welfare community together. Normally, each agency tends to be a bit territorial. Not now.

Jenna Blum

'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Alice Walker

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Barack Obama

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Carl Jung

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.