Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Akio Morita

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

William Shakespeare

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

William Shakespeare

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

William Shakespeare

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

William Shakespeare

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

Gretchen Rubin

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Steve Alic

We're monitoring the hurricane and we continue to be in contact with both the Chiefs and Dolphins.

Chinua Achebe

A chief does not hurry.

Chief Joseph

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Chester Bowles

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

Charles Bradlaugh

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Bill O'Reilly

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

Jane Byrne

I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

Marty Schottenheimer

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Jane Bryant Quinn

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Joseph Beuys

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Brewster Kahle

If we go and bring universal access to all human knowledge it will be remembered as one of the great things humankind has ever done,

Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Sun Moon

marked the beginning of the restoration of humankind back into God's lineage. ... They are the first couple to have the complete blessing of God, and to be able to bring forth children with no original sin.

Ernst Fischer

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.