Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Maurice Chevalier

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Maurizio Margaglio

We are in front, and the others must do better.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Judy Leiterman

Word's getting out. It will be interesting to see how many others will be able to pull it off.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jeffrey Kluger

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.

Ludwig von Mises

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

William Shakespeare

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.