Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

David Quammen

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

Carl Hiaasen

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Geno Auriemma

It just kind of disappears out of nowhere. There'll be five possessions where you'll think, 'Holy cow, that's an unbelievable play!' And then it just disappears.

Thomas Vinje

Hes very good at pulling rabbits out of hats, but the rabbit disappears in the end.

Carl Hiaasen

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong, ... it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

Tim Samuelson

This kind of drawing was in a lot of Sullivan and Adler buildings, and once Wright leaves their offices, this kind of ornament disappears altogether, but reappears in Wright's independent projects. So this is probably his design.

Iain Sinclair

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Dustin Diamond

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

Persis Khambatta

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Sunil Mittal

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Kevin Dixon

I really loved it there. I very much appreciated and was honored to work there. Everyone was fantastic.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Brad Thor

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

Katie King

I won the state championship and I got nominated and that was enough for me. I always want to win, but I was just honored to be here.

Trevor Hoffman

I was honored to have that opportunity to go out and get it done,

Mark Patton

I thought I'd be an extra. Then it comes to this. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Angie Harmon

I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.

Lao Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Lao Tzu

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

James Stephens

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

William Allingham

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Lao Tzu

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Max Beerbohm

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Ramana Maharshi

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Jon Foreman

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Harvey Milk

Hope is never silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

John Beilein

No, ... that's my wife. I think she's waving to our son.