Uncontroversially True Quotes & Sayings

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. — Alice Walker

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort. — Santonu Kumar Dhar

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark. — Bill Gates

I hate show business. — Joni Mitchell

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. — Michael C. Hall

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. — Smedley Butler

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians. — Tommy Lasorda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them. — Carlos Castaneda

So you must be the guys she was talking about." "Really?" Katz said. "What'd she say?" "Oh, nothing," he said, but he was suppressing a small smile in that way that makes you say: "What?" "Nothing. It was nothing." But he was smiling. "What?" He wavered. "Oh, all right. She said you guys were a couple of overweight wimps who didn't know the first thing about hiking and that she was tired of carrying you." "She said that?" Katz said, scandalized. "Actually I think she called you pussies." "She called us pussies?" Katz said. "Now I will kill her. — Bill Bryson