All Quotes

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
‐‐ Chin-Ning Chu

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
‐‐ David Brinkley

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
‐‐ Lana Turner

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
‐‐ Mignon McLaughlin

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
‐‐ Robert Trout

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.
‐‐ David Suchet

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
‐‐ Anna Garlin Spencer

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
‐‐ Orville Wright

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
‐‐ Arthur Miller

A suit is a sign of respect.
‐‐ Matt Berninger

A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
‐‐ Russell Smith

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
‐‐ Alan King

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
‐‐ Alec Guinness

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
‐‐ Mercy Otis Warren

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
‐‐ Confucius

A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part yet, and I'm afraid that by the time I am, I'm going to be too old anyway.
‐‐ Christine Teigen

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.
‐‐ Kim Alexis

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
‐‐ Johan Huizinga

A supervillain must continue to exist.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
‐‐ L. Ron Hubbard

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
‐‐ David Whyte

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
‐‐ Bette Davis

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.
‐‐ Michael Huffington

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
‐‐ Ian Millar

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
‐‐ Emma Orczy

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
‐‐ Jimmy Carr

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
‐‐ Herman Kahn

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa