Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sullivan

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Chris Stein

We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

Samuel Lopez

We're just looking out for the kids. We want to make sure they don't do anything stupid and nothing happens to them.

William Shakespeare

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

Alan Chadwick

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

Alan Bishop

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Alan Bennett

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

William Shakespeare

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare

Talkers are no good doers.

Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Campbell Scott

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Bernard de Mandeville

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Elizabeth Hurley

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Bear Bryant

Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

Jane Hirshfield

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Jane Austen

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Bob Bandoni

We're going to tap into his maturity and interpersonal skills. What we are seeing right now are the younger players are comfortable playing with him. He actually brings them to a higher level by virtue of his own play, but also due to the respect he has for his players.

Alan Blinder

What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not.

William Shakespeare

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

William Shakespeare

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

Charlotte Lennox

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.