Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Scheuring

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

Milton Friedman

John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

Julian Barnes

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Howard Schultz

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

Honore de Balzac

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Ethan Zuckerman

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Malcolm Gets

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more.

Janet Reno

There may come a time when there is no other alternative. But we've got to do it in a careful, thoughtful way,

Gertrude Stein

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

Hans Kung

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Gretchen Rubin

Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.

Henry David Thoreau

We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Jill Soloway

My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

Jacqueline Novogratz

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Jacqueline Novogratz

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

Jacqueline Novogratz

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.