Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Hobb

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Robert W. Service

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Wilson Lynd

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Wilson Lynd

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Ringer

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Robert Ringer

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

Robert Nardelli

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

Robert Mugabe

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Robert Nozick

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

Robert Urich

A healthy outside starts from the inside.

Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Robert Plant

[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.

Robert Lloyd

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Robert M. Hutchins

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Roger Babson

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Roger Caras

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Sasha Azevedo

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments,

Sasha Azevedo

The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference!

Sara Paretsky

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Samuel Ullman

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Sandra Bernhard

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Samuel Johnson

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Virgil

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Virgil

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

William Henry Moody

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

Willard Gaylin

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Willa Cather

Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

Will Smith

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.