39564 Quotes

#1. The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

John Quincy Adams

#2. Anytime you're afraid to try something new ... just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

David Drake

#3. 7. Do you ask me what this real good is, and whence it derives? I will tell you: it comes from a good conscience, from honourable purposes, from right actions, from contempt of the gifts of chance, from an even and calm way of living which treads but one path. For

Seneca.

#4. Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#5. He says, You're an idiot. You couldn't get yourself arrested without me along to help.

Daniel Wallace

#6. Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Guy De Maupassant

#7. An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

Yusuf Hamied

#10. Sacred souls experience sleepless nights. It is enormous strength for specific sacred work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

Leon Wieseltier

#12. You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

Jason Segel

#13. The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

Matt Dillon