Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Menninger

Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Stephen Covey

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Edmund Burke

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success

M. H. Abrams

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

Barack Obama

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

Greg Graffin

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

Dick Cheney

The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Mary Ellen Mark

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.

Paulo Coelho

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Jim Butcher

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Alan Dershowitz

Any human being has private thoughts.

Alain Badiou

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Kenny Chesney

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

David Walliams

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

David Rosen

The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

David Rockwell

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Rockwell

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Rockefeller

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

David Riesman

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

David Riesman

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Diablo Cody

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Charles Dance

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Evangeline Lilly

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

Jane Austen

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

James Wolcott

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Ayn Rand

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

Celine Dion

The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight are rolling like thunder now as I look in your eyes. I hold on to your body and feel each move you make, your voice is warm and tender, a love that I could not forsake.

Carter Burwell

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Bob Dylan

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

Carl Gustav Jung

Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

Norma Shearer

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Michael Cunningham

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

GG Allin

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation.

Robert Wagner

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Francis Spufford

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

Van Cliburn

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Julius Baer

(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Councilor Cyr

Let's not waste any time. Let's do it and get it done.

Bobby Scott

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Barbara de Angelis

when your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Eli Roth

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Daniel Craig

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.