Top 100 Ross Quotes

#1. Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'

Pooch Hall

#2. When you forgive, the prisoner you set free is yourself.

Helen Klein Ross

#3. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.

Ross King

#4. The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

Ross Bleckner

#5. However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts is the kind of conceit that only, well, an intellectual could possibly believe.

Ross Douthat

#6. You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Rick Ross

#7. The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

F. Ross Johnson

#8. I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

Ross Lynch

#9. How could I not stand myself? Was I one person or two?

Orna Ross

#10. surprise. Ross was willing to

Inara Scott

#11. There wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to me in a dream

Ross Raisin

#12. We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#13. It would feel good to work at the Benjamin S. Ross Foundation for Not Eating Fruity Pebbles. But I know there isn't actually anything to rally against for him.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#14. We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#15. A taste of whiskey had changed her mood, as a touch of acid will change the color of blue litmus paper.

Ross Macdonald

#16. Faith doesn't run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.

Josh Ross

#17. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Ross Perot

#18. Bruises fade. Death is permanent.

JoAnn Ross

#19. Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.

Ross Levinsohn

#20. Many of these omnibuses were driven, oddly enough, by male models who had retired from the business, which meant that Parisians of Manet's day were transported around the city by men who had once posed as valiant biblical heroes or the vindictive deities of classical mythology.

Ross King

#21. He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us:

Ross Macdonald

#22. Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Ross Perot

#23. Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Diana Ross

#24. Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

Dennis Ross

#25. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.

Jeremy McCarter

#26. I would like to sit down with Oprah, just because I'd like to talk to her. I want to sit down and, like, converse. Like, 'Honey, let's chat!'

Ross Mathews

#27. I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Robert Baldwin Ross

#28. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Wilbur Ross

#29. Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#30. Hair has always been important.

Diana Ross

#31. My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.

Liberty Ross

#32. Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Dennis Ross

#33. What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.

Ross Perot Jr.

#34. We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Dennis Ross

#35. The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

H. Ross Perot

#36. I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#37. When you listen to someone's songs, their soul comes through.

Matt Ross

#38. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#39. Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

Ryan Ross

#40. You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Wilbur Ross

#41. I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

Diana Ross

#42. The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Ross Lovegrove

#43. They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.

Orna Ross

#44. I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

JoAnn Ross

#45. My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

Diana Ross

#46. The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#47. All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Barney Ross

#48. We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#49. It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.

Winston Graham

#50. Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

Adam Ross

#51. I'm interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I'm trying to understand.

Ross Lovegrove

#52. You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Ross Lovegrove

#53. Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.

Dana Fuller Ross

#54. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Winston Graham

#55. My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Liberty Ross

#56. The Prince to a slightly more upbeat view of human action. In order "not to rule out our free will," he arrives at a formula by which Fortune is "the arbiter of half the things we do, leaving the other half or so to be controlled by ourselves.

Ross King

#57. These haters can't hold me back

Rick Ross

#58. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far

D. Ross Campbell

#59. When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

Linwood Barclay

#60. Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

JoAnn Ross

#61. According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#62. He wanted to "sarge" with me, as he put it. Sarging is pickup artist jargon for going out to meet women; the term evidently has its origin in the name of one of Ross Jeffries's cats, Sargy. An

Neil Strauss

#63. I had to decide who I was, Night or Day, Human or Vampire.

P.A. Ross

#64. Meissonier always spent many months researching his subject, finding out, for example, the precise sort of coats or breeches worn at the court of Louis XV, then hunting for them in rag fairs and market stalls or, failing that, having them specially sewn by tailors.

Ross King

#65. Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#66. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

Ross Parmenter

#67. I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#68. Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.

Wilbur Ross

#69. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9

Peter Ross Range

#70. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

#71. I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'
So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

Ann B. Ross

#72. But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Marion Ross

#73. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.

Ross Paterson

#74. On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture.

Ross E. Lockhart

#75. Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

Ross Gelbspan

#76. If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

Orna Ross

#77. I just wait to go elsewhere but I get there and it's the same dusk.

Rodney Ross

#78. Relationships are forged in pauses

Lisa M. Ross

#79. I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

Diana Ross

#80. America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.

Ross Douthat

#81. When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

Diana Ross

#82. In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.

Nina Jacobson

#83. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Percy Ross

#84. I have five siblings, so my mom was always pregnant, and she would wear these dungarees that looked so cool.

Liberty Ross

#85. Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

Jim Ross

#86. Everyone knows marriage is hard work. So if you've chosen the shackles, quit whining and get on with it.

Karina Bliss

#87. [In Christianity] humans are invited to co-create in mutual kenosis with this God who weaves our sins, mistakes, and follies into a pattern, and thus offers us salvation contingent on our willingness to have it.

Maggie Ross

#88. I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

Bob Ross

#89. Lanie, you live 15 minutes away from your office and you get there at eight. Over two hours every day just to do your hair and makeup. Diana fuckin' Ross in her heyday probably took less time to get ready for a show. Babe, if that isn't high maintenance, I do not know what is.

Kristen Ashley

#90. You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Ross Levinsohn

#91. The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

Ronald Ross

#92. You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.

Orna Ross

#93. How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#94. Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barney Ross

#95. We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.

Orna Ross

#96. My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.

Ross Macdonald

#97. I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Bob Ross

#98. I didn't want to be alone anymore," he whispers, lying back down on his side facing away from me.
I have no words.

Dannielle Wicks

#99. When I stepped out of my car the night shot up like a tree and branched wide into blossoming masses of stars. Under their far cold lights I felt weak and little. If a fruit fly lived for one day instead of two, it hardly seemed to matter. Except to another fruit fly.

Ross Macdonald

#100. It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,

Tracee Ellis Ross

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