Bolded Line Quotes & Sayings

To the people that have said I'm too small, I'm not fast enough, I don't have what it takes, I'm not strong enough. THANK YOU — Muhammad Ali

The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they already believe in some particular connexion: e.g. if a man happens to have bad neighbors or bad children, he will agree with any one who tells him 'Nothing is more annoying than having neighbors,' or, 'Nothing is more foolish than to be the parent of children.' The orator has therefore to guess the subjects on which his hearers really hold views already, and what those views are, and then must express, as general truths, these same views on these same subjects. This is one advantage of using maxims. — Aristotle.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice. — Chanakya

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again. — Mark Sheppard

What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something. — Dan Kieran

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of ... we are afraid of what we think. — Michael Neill

At least you were a fool about the right things," said Faber. — Ray Bradbury

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life. — George Bernard Shaw

London November 1912 Heather Farm Grasmere Westmorland Dear Tilly, I hope you and your sister — Hazel Gaynor

True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given? — Charles Lindbergh

If you ignore little things, they become big problems. — Rohinton Mistry