FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know ... (Mark Twain)

We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic ... (Chris Rock)

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. ... (Paul Haggis)

Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for ... (Roger Goodell)

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the ... (Maria Montessori)

I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for ... (Wells Tower)

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful ... like when my ... (Eminem)

In the first days of his time in office," I said, "doesn't he smile at and greet whomever he meets, and not only deny he's a tyrant but promise much ... (Plato)

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court. ... (Red Auerbach)

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table. ... (Kitty Kelley)

I'd always kept an eye on the house. I don't mean doing repairs, for as the house didn't belong to me that was not my place, but rather I'd keep ... (Aminatta Forna)

Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her. Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate. ... (Kiersten White)

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere. ... (Barbara Corcoran)

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. ... (Ludwig von Mises)

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? you purchase a ticket when you're born. and it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a ... (R.J. Palacio)

It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better ... (George Alec Effinger)

DECEMBER 4 Use Your Authority Well Whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever desires to be first among you must be your slave - ... (Joyce Meyer)

Maybe he's right,' she says, meaning the guy on the screen. 'Maybe we do all exist in some alternative universe and we're living in other times and places at the ... (Andrew James)

If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it ... (Mehmet Murat ildan)

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. ... (Xun Zi)

Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED? ... (Jeremy Clarkson)

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little ... (Cate Blanchett)

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free. ... (Danny Rimer)

I'm not your blue-eyed Czech, I'm just a brown-eyed girl, A little mix of rock your world, And now you'll never be the same. You grabbed me by the hand, ... (Crystal Woods)

There is a Hindu legend that tells us that there was once a time when all men were gods, but they abused their divinity. Brahma, the god of creation, concluded ... (Kate Atkinson)

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned. ... (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable. ... (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith. ... (Martin Luther)

I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint. ... (Kristin Bauer van Straten)