Getting Quotes

Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Long

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.
Justin Bieber

Crazy, Done, Night

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Money, Business

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

Drunk, Excuse, Convenient

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle

Great, Lose, Older

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes

Life, Almost, Ways

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Giving, Through

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love, True, Giving

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats

Angry, End, Lose

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker

Bad, Sunday, Together

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love, Married, Almost

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Lance Armstrong

Country, Tough, Around

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Revenge, Remember

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
Kobe Bryant

Around, Fish, Water

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman

Work, Government, Black

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Olivia Munn

Life, Change, Age

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

Night, Last, Luck

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba

Age, Cannot, Won

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner

Nothing, Sure, Gambling

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Mason Cooley

Hope, Courage, Act

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

Physics, Anybody, Says

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes

Old, Makes, Less

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Time, Again, Born

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens

Person, Two, Another

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
David Letterman

Time, Forward, Forget

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Angry, Give

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi

Work, Real, Done

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
Andy Rooney

Thought, Realize, Paper

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump

Done, Country, Impossible

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Getting Definition

Baltasar Gracian

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us