6342 Quotes & Sayings

Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies. — LaTanya Richardson

I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people. — George Saunders

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that? — Dikembe Mutombo

When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good. — Robert F. Engle

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough. — Alex Ferguson

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. — Florence Nightingale

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. — Joseph Roux

Call, believe, hear, and preach. — Jerry Bridges

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. — Swami Vivekananda

I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting. — P.G. Wodehouse