Being Understood Famous Quotes & Sayings

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents? — Wesley Clark

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. — Joyce Carol Oates

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. — Dalai Lama XIV

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective. — Will Arnett

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. — Tom Bodett

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers. — Haruki Murakami

It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met. — Arushi Raina

Dreamers can never be tamed — Paulo Coelho

I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do it on public property. They have to do it on private property. There's nothing unconstitutional about that. — John Shelby Spong

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid. — Michael Walzer

I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places. — Imtiaz Ali

There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by a wound. All that you ever hear of such a soldier is that his spurs jingle on the pavement as he walks. There is no history for this carpet knight. He is just a dandy. He never smelled gunpowder in battle in his life. If he did, he fetched out his cologne to kill the offensive odor. Oh, if we could be wise enough to choose, even were as wise as the Lord Himself, we would choose the troubles which He has appointed to us, and we would not spare ourselves a single pang. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon