Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

Michael Kimmel

So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.

Mason Cooley

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

Marie Curie

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Ted Turner

I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Ted Nugent

The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

P. J. O'Rourke

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

Oscar Wilde

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Seth Godin

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

I feel as though we can play a lot better defensively.

I feel as though I've been very lucky.

I'm bored, even though I've got a lot to do, ... I'm tired. I'm frustrated.

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

It was something I had done a thousand times,

Jack Nicholson

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Jack Kemp

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

Gena Showalter

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.

Gary Lineker

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

James Garner

I'll still watch even though Earnhardt isn't in it.

Ivanka Trump

It's always a huge red flag for me when somebody's reticent or reluctant or a little slow in providing thoughtful references that are a testament to them as a person and their professional accomplishments.

Harrison Ford

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

Gracie Allen

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

It's a little nerve-racking even though it's exciting." ()

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Gary Hamel

During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.