Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

William James

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Alan Cohen

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Alan Cohen

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

E. F. Schumacher

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

Petrarch

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

William Shakespeare

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Pat Riley

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.