Notable Quotes
237 quotes by 112 authors
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest…
— Daniel Goleman
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before…
— Robertson Davies
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their…
— B. C. Forbes
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
— E. M. Forster
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The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be…
— Edward R. Murrow
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought…
— Michel de Montaigne
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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
— Milton Friedman
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The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a…
— Joseph Goebbels
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All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
— William Butler Yeats
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference…
— Patrick Henry
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Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in…
— Daniel Webster
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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens…
— Michael Pollan
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the…
— O. Henry
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He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.
— Diablo Cody
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The…
— Roland Barthes
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It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared
— Cassandra Clare
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A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because…
— Robertson Davies
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It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared."…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Notable Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 237 Notable Quotes, led by these top contributors: