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"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line." »Warren Bennis
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"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." »William Arthur Ward
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"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." »Tom Robbins
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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." »Henry David Thoreau
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars." »Bernard Baruch
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"Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind." »Italian Proverb
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"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." »General George Patton
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"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." »Unknown
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"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." »Unknown
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"A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse." »Sir Thomas More, Works
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"It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart." »Martin Luther
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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." »Publilius Syrus
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"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." »Honore' de Balzac
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"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom." »Peter Ustinov
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"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat." »Eric Hoffer
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." »Muhammad Ali
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"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat." »Sri da Avabhas
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"In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office." »Walter Frederick Mondale
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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme
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"At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps." »Tommy Boy
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"It is difficult to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other." »Tillotson
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"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." »Charles Robert Darwin
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