29666 Quotes & Sayings

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make. — Jerry Bruckheimer

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy. — Ben Hecht

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and
impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that. — Eleanor Porter

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. — Donald Rumsfeld

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. — Henry Fielding

Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun. — John N. Gray

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Martha
I thought you loved her.
Bernard
Enough to want her happiness above all things.
Martha
You are forty-five, aren't you? I forgot that for a moment.
Bernard
Dear Martha. You have such an attractive way of putting things. — W. Somerset Maugham

I don't know you well enough to like or dislike you." "I have the opposite opinion. Seeing you react to difficult situations and watching you interact with strangers tells me you're an incredible person. — E.B. Sullivan

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson