Classiques Modernes Quotes & Sayings

You can't climb a smooth mountain — Zig Ziglar

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings. — Chana Levitan

The only sin is the sin of being born — Samuel Beckett

Giving up is not an option if you want to succeed. If you really want to be in business, and it's something you can't live without, you just have to keep going. And one day that shot will be given to you. — Kellee Stewart

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. — John Osborne

... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out. — Anne Berest

The crewman told Dan his name was Bosun Higgs, and Helen didn't believe that for a second. — Terry Pratchett

The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination, must be treasured and preserved, not as means of freezing thought and conception in some new mold but as basis for understanding of the social reality and committed work to change it. There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone. It would also be great error to underestimate the power of social forces that will fight to maintain power and privilege. — Noam Chomsky

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic. — Dai Vernon

Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

This morning a splendid dawn passed over our house on its way to Kansas. This morning Kansas rolled out of its sleep into a sunlight grandly announced, proclaimed throughout heaven - one more of the very finite number of days that this old prairie has been called Kansas, or Iowa. But it has all been one day, that first day. Light is constant, we just turn over in it. So every day is in fact the selfsame evening and morning. — Marilynne Robinson

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. — John Maeda

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. — Bill Gates

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too. — Paul Rudd

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. — G.A. Henty