Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Ferguson

To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Hugo Ch

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it,

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Randy Johnson

There are situations where employers cannot find American workers to fill jobs.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Felix Rodriguez

He was awesome. He is one of the greatest pitchers, ... and I'm happy for the way he performed tonight.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Dontrelle Willis

He's already got it down to where he's telling guys when they're pitching. That's the greatest honor for any individual, to represent their country.

Ken Dunham

Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down.

Donald Every

I think it's his greatest accomplishment, one that has the potential for the longest-term impact.

David Osborne

I think the greatest security measure is pre-pay, period,

Yvon Chouinard

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

Jamie Trowbridge

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Geoffrey Robertson

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Mark Jacobs

They persuaded me to give it a shot.

David Horowitz

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

The Palestinians have voted for the resistance and have shown their loyalty.

Wayne White

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Evo Morales

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

Muqtada al Sadr

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Wiz Khalifa

Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Will Rogers

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

M. Scott Peck

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Larry Brown

I'm sure I've been 0-3 a lot, ... And most of my teams have struggled early.

Tiki Barber

It was a tough sled. We struggled a little bit.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Stephen Merchant

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Jeff Judkins

This team is young and inexperienced. They haven't been in these type of games, with this pressure. I think they struggled with that a little.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.