Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
Ted Turner

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Rodney Dangerfield

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.
Steve Martin

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
Earl Nightingale

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush Limbaugh

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aurelius

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Epictetus

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis