Getting Quotes - page 3

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. (Charles Dickens)
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. View quote
Penelope Lively
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. View quote
Langston Hughes
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. View quote
Vance Packard
Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. View quote
Myrna Loy
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I'm not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films. (Sania Mirza)
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. View quote
Andy Rooney
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. View quote
Robert Frost
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. View quote
Jennifer Garner
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. View quote
Norman Mailer
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. View quote
Garrison Keillor
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. View quote
Samuel Johnson
An early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. (Marvin Gaye)
You dont learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. View quote
Ludwig Borne
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. View quote
Dale Carnegie