Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Harry S Truman

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.

J. Michael Straczynski

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

J. K. Rowling

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

e. e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I am who I am today, because of my parents...I learn only from them, that I never wanted to be like them.

I feel comfortable, but it's still a learning experience. This summer I got a little experience, but it's still a learning experience.

Francesca Schiavone

I don't want to make excuses. I just lost and I will learn something very important.

He's improving. He's still learning a position. He's been moved around a lot.

Joe Girardi

I don't like to lose but if you're going to lose, we had a chance. They'll learn a lot in those type of situations and they'll learn because they're going to get a lot of chances.

I do it because it's fun. There really is no other reason. I've learned a lot, made a lot of friends, and I plan to do while I'm in college.

Over the past two years we've learned a lot. We want to be ready for our customers.

The over-riding question is, what will we learn from Katrina?

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Nancy Gibbs

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

Eugene H. Peterson

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Eric Ripert

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

Richard Holbrooke

We are not learning anything here that isn't in previous accounts,

Bruce Cockburn

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

Andrew Strauss

We have learnt what it takes to win a series in India.

We have learned that our city's strength is unbreakable,

Pam Brown

We have learned not to be overconfident when it comes to requesting any type of taxation. However, West Vincent has a proven track record with how transferable development rights are used.