I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication… Good editors are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The CEO announces that the purpose of the firm is to improve the lives of the customers and the lives of the… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Both sameness and difference are issues for us. A sign of cultural homogenization is that languages are disappearing at an alarming rate.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that. — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients… — Mike McGavick Copy Share Image
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher. — Claude Martin Copy Share Image
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with. — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
