Quotes Quotations

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that everyone remembers and quotes from the movie.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

When you're out in the military situation, you can't take pictures at night because flashlights. So at night and in bad weather and in dark weather, the cameras went into the fish tackling box, which was waterproof, and I would just use my mind and try to keep quotes there and write down little stories.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford first talked about his love of the countryside or where he quotes Larkin or what was the beginning of his hatred of racism or where he first encountered domestic violence; I would be able to find it straight away.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.