Quotes 19441 till 19460 of 25201.
-
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
-
The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
-
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
-
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
-
The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
-
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
-
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
-
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
-
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
-
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
-
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
-
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
-
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
-
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
-
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
-
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
-
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
-
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
All and-yes famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 973)
