Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrice Webb

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

Audre Lorde

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Audre Lorde

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Denis Waitley

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

Deb Caletti

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Alanis Morissette

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction...

Blaise Pascal

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Ashley Campbell

When he heard the screams, he was shocked, scared, worried.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Jarvis Deberry

Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them.

Benjamin Franklin

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

E. B. White

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

Kirsten Gillibrand

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Eddie Campbell

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

Kris Wartelle

We have heard the reports. It's become a very serious investigation on that facility.

George Robertson

We have heard that some villages do not exist,

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Robert Hess

We're seeing very high levels relative to historical levels. Our shelters are over capacity.

Dave Lawrence

We're looking at a quick warm-up. It's a quick-hitting, high pressure system.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Source Unknown

If others have sinned you need not mention it

John Panciocco

I was shocked. I didn't know anything about the cyst. He never mentioned it and I never really noticed it.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

Bob Mayer

The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

David Remnick

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

David Hockney

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

David Hockney

The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

David Hume

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume

The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.

David Hume

There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

David Duchovny

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

David Brin

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

David Brin

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Charles Kingsley

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Keyshawn Johnson

How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Tom Stoppard

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.