We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
SIDNEY POITIER I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described a...
SIDNEY POITIER If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply w...
SIDNEY POITIER I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skill...
SIDNEY POITIER But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
SIDNEY POITIER I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life...
SIDNEY POITIER I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I ...
SIDNEY POITIER I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
SIDNEY POITIER To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
SIDNEY POITIER I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha...
SIDNEY POITIER There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
SIDNEY POITIER If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some go...
SIDNEY POITIER I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
SIDNEY POITIER I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and h...
SIDNEY POITIER A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my c...
SIDNEY POITIER Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
SIDNEY POITIER To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessar...
SIDNEY POITIER I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
SIDNEY POITIER So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
SIDNEY POITIER I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly d...
SIDNEY POITIER My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from...
SIDNEY POITIER [Smith said he, too, is pleased by the recognition of African-American actors. He noted that Poitier...
SIDNEY POITIER We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
SIDNEY POITIER Southern Gentleman.
SIDNEY POITIER I'll always be chasing you, ... Glory.
SIDNEY POITIER I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of...
SIDNEY POITIER I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And becau...
SIDNEY POITIER My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
SIDNEY POITIER I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every...
SIDNEY POITIER But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
SIDNEY POITIER My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b...
SIDNEY POITIER For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
SIDNEY LUMET Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
SIDNEY BUCHMAN It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
SIDNEY MADWED It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I di...
GEORGE SIDNEY In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play o...
SIDNEY CROSBY Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
SIDNEY LANIER The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil...
SIDNEY MADWED Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
SIDNEY MADWED Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be...
SIDNEY JOURARD Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.
SIDNEY JOURARD Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the ...
SIDNEY MADWED To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
SIDNEY SHELDON I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.
SIDNEY SHELDON Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you ...
SIDNEY SHELDON Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw....
SIDNEY SHELDON Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SIDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SIDNEY MADWED Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between ...
SIDNEY MADWED It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
SIDNEY MADWED You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you k...
SIDNEY JOURARD If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to...
SIDNEY JOURARD Liars need to have good memories.
ALGERNON SIDNEY We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, anal...
SIDNEY JOURARD Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SIDNEY MADWED Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or...
SIDNEY MADWED One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
SIDNEY HOWARD The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they...
SIDNEY MADWED The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
PHILIP SIDNEY Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, ...
SIDNEY LANIER When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
SIDNEY SHELDON Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our ow...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...
PHILIP SIDNEY Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
SIDNEY HOOK I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; cap...
SIDNEY HOOK Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
SIDNEY HOOK To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
SIDNEY HOOK Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his ...
SIDNEY HOOK Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SIDNEY HOOK Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human valu...
SIDNEY HOOK Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...
SIDNEY HOOK Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
SIDNEY HOOK A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours...
SIDNEY SHELDON I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first sto...
SIDNEY SHELDON I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so ...
SIDNEY SHELDON The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue....
SIDNEY SHELDON The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive prob...
SIDNEY SHELDON If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I fee...
SIDNEY SHELDON I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
SIDNEY SHELDON There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide wheth...
SIDNEY SHELDON The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public...
SIDNEY SHELDON I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very importan...
SIDNEY SHELDON Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea...
SIDNEY SHELDON Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
SIDNEY SHELDON The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpos...
SIDNEY SHELDON What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. An...
SIDNEY SHELDON I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
SIDNEY SHELDON I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation ...
SIDNEY SHELDON I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations...
SIDNEY SHELDON Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.
SIDNEY SHELDON Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatel...
SIDNEY SHELDON I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
SIDNEY SHELDON Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't...
SIDNEY SHELDON Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly f...
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL All good work requires self-revelation.
SIDNEY LUMET Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
SIDNEY CROSBY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liars ought to have good memories
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted
ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY God helps those who help themselves.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
ALGERNON SIDNEY The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," t...
ALGERNON SIDNEY He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
ALGERNON SIDNEY He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
ALGERNON SIDNEY If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...
PHILIP SIDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
SIDNEY HOOK Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
SIDNEY SHELDON My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place -...
SIDNEY SHELDON Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a...
SIDNEY BUCHMAN The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s...
SIDNEY LANIER Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old...
SIDNEY SHELDON Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; ...
SIDNEY LANIER I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to sta...
SIDNEY CROSBY Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me...
SIDNEY SHELDON Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SIDNEY It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the...
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal go...
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, makin...
PHILIP SIDNEY I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphor...
SIDNEY LANIER A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between ...
SIDNEY MADWED When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be goo...
SIDNEY MADWED Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one reali...
SIDNEY MADWED Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us ...
SIDNEY MADWED I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they ...
SIDNEY MADWED When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abu...
SIDNEY MADWED The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peac...
SIDNEY MADWED We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou...
SIDNEY MADWED Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
SIDNEY MADWED The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and ti...
SIDNEY MADWED Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply state...
SIDNEY MADWED You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really re...
SIDNEY MADWED Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that af...
SIDNEY MADWED Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.
SIDNEY MADWED To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware ...
SIDNEY MADWED Thoughts are funny little things,
They can make paupers or make kings.
SIDNEY MADWED The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil...
SIDNEY MADWED The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ...
SIDNEY CROSBY I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, ... It was more of a well-rounded game. I wa...
SIDNEY CROSBY I gave it my best shot, tried to have the best rookie year I could.
SIDNEY CROSBY It's a little bit overwhelming seeing this kind of reaction to my arrival, but I guess I'm prepared ...
SIDNEY CROSBY My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study p...
SIDNEY ALTMAN I was always cheering for them,
SIDNEY CROSBY It's going to be nice just to talk to him and talk about some hockey things. It's been busy, with th...
SIDNEY CROSBY Obviously, this is a new level, but the pressure has always been there,
SIDNEY CROSBY It's nice to finally get one. It's nice to be able to contribute.
SIDNEY CROSBY He's a very smart guy, but he's basically carrying out the agenda of the pharmaceutical industry. Hi...
SIDNEY WOLFE Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.
SYLVIA SIDNEY Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.
SYLVIA SIDNEY It's a little frustrating, but it's hockey -- you go through skids and this happens to be a long one...
SIDNEY CROSBY It's really a kick in the head to the secrecy surrounding the National Practitioners' Databank that ...
SIDNEY WOLFE I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.
SIDNEY CROSBY It was nice to get the first one out of the way.
SIDNEY CROSBY I'm trying to learn as much as I can out there, but I'm confident in what I can do,
SIDNEY CROSBY I'm not worried about coming in here and putting the pressure on myself to get four points every nig...
SIDNEY CROSBY It's not easy to watch the game at home on TV.
SIDNEY CROSBY In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the charact...
SIDNEY SHELDON It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if o...
SIDNEY ALTMAN [Despite growing half an inch since last season, Crosby is one of the smaller players in the Penguin...
SIDNEY CROSBY Oh yeah. Definitely. It's going to be tough if [the Penguins] are not there in the playoffs, obvious...
SIDNEY CROSBY You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or yo...
SIDNEY SHELDON When you are playing from behind you start to panic sometimes and maybe take more penalties and you'...
SIDNEY CROSBY Someone saw my name on that (claim tag). They took a look inside and hit the jackpot.
SIDNEY CROSBY Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL If you're too awestruck, you get caught watching, you get caught being happy to be there and you're ...
SIDNEY CROSBY It's tough to play when you don't have the energy.
SIDNEY CROSBY I think to be great, you have to prove that you're the best year after year after year and show that...
SIDNEY CROSBY Oh yeah, I noticed it,
SIDNEY CROSBY It's a great accomplishment, and I'm definitely proud of it. By no means, coming into the season, di...
SIDNEY CROSBY They've been unbelievable. We've had some ups and downs -- probably a lot more downs -- and they've ...
SIDNEY CROSBY If I can contribute and help out, it feels good. It's nice, especially when stuff goes on.
SIDNEY CROSBY I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his...
SIDNEY CROSBY Being a successful hockey player is overcoming when guys are shadowing you and out-thinking them. It...
SIDNEY CROSBY Going through this is a lot of adversity -- let's be honest, there is a little bit of pressure becau...
SIDNEY CROSBY When you go through a time like we have, you go to basics. Get the puck at the net and play simple h...
SIDNEY CROSBY I thought things went pretty well. I think I can play here and help the team. I just want to continu...
SIDNEY CROSBY I am definitely looking forward to getting on the ice every day and meeting the guys here.
SIDNEY CROSBY I think I did all right but I want to improve. I don't think I'm happy with being average in that de...
SIDNEY CROSBY I want to play as soon as possible, ... You want to play but I don't pick and choose. It's not my jo...
SIDNEY CROSBY That's the plan for now.
SIDNEY CROSBY I'm not trying to be the next Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux, ... I am putting pressure on myself to...
SIDNEY CROSBY I looked forward to it for a long time. It feels awesome. Yeah, I was happy. It's something you drea...
SIDNEY CROSBY I'd love to have the opportunity to do that, ... Obviously I'm going to be a rookie, so I'm going to...
SIDNEY CROSBY There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.
SIDNEY LUMET