Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

Rudy Giuliani

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Rudy Giuliani

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Samuel Johnson

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Sam Abell

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Sachin Tendulkar

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

William Hazlitt

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

William Hazlitt

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

William E. Gladstone

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Wendell Berry

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Wendell Berry

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

Walter Reuther

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Vladimir Nabokov

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Yoko Ono

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Yoko Ono

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Yani Tseng

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Yann Martel

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

Wynn Bullock

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

Wynonna Judd

Sometimes all it takes is just a smile to change somebody's weather.

Wynonna Judd

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

William Penn

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

William Penn

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Zig Ziglar

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

Zig Ziglar

Every choice you make has an end result.

Zig Ziglar

The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.