Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Rudy Giuliani

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

Sandra Cisneros

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

Samuel Johnson

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

Samuel Johnson

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Samuel Johnson

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

Samuel Johnson

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

Samuel Johnson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Sam Waterston

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

Sam Altman

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Sachin Tendulkar

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

Sachin Tendulkar

When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.

Sachin Tendulkar

I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

Sachin Tendulkar

It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes.

Sachin Tendulkar

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

Sachin Tendulkar

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Sachin Tendulkar

It's important not to take anything for granted.

Sachin Tendulkar

I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

Sachin Tendulkar

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

Sachin Tendulkar

Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.

Sachin Tendulkar

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

Sachin Tendulkar

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

Sachin Tendulkar

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

Ryan Gosling

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Ruth Ozeki

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

Ruth Ozeki

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

Robert Jordan

A man without trust is a man without life.

William Harvey

And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.