It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey