The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 6)

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Some players get trophys, some get statues. Some get both.

I will be finishing my active career at the end of this season. I will remain faithful to football. Many, many thanks for the time we spent together, I will always have a place for you in my heart!

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much!

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

I'm so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

One day, I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change - not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.