Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Saul Bellow

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Saul Bellow

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

Sarah Dessen

Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

Roh Moo-hyun

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Winston Churchill

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Wilma Rudolph

I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.

Will Self

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

Warren Farrell

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Zadie Smith

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Yvon Chouinard

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there...

Tyra Banks

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

Tyra Banks

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Tristan Bernard

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

Wilferd Peterson

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

Wilferd Peterson

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

Wilferd Peterson

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.

Walter Lippmann

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Walter F. Mondale

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Winona Ryder

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Winona Ryder

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Winona Ryder

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Winston Churchill

I'd rather be right than consistent.

Rick Yancey

He asks me what happened to my leg. I told him I was shot by a shark. He doesn't react. Doesn't seem confused or amused or anything. Like getting shot by a shark is a perfectly natural thing in the aftermath of the arrival.

Veronica Roth

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they’re facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

Samuel Johnson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Samuel Johnson

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Samuel Johnson

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

Rumer Willis

When I was a kid you didn't have Twitter or Instagram where as soon as you walk out of a building a photo of you is up within two minutes or a million people are commenting and saying nasty things, i found a different confidence because I realized that you can't base your self-worth on the opinions of others.

William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.