Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Denis Waitley

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Alan K. Simpson

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't cry over spilled milk

Bjorn Lomborg

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Beverley Mitchell

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

David Milne

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Mark Cuban

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

David Andrews

a byword for fortitude, resilience and a spirit of community.

Barry Trotz

I wanted a sense of desperation going into the third period. Our resilience was not acceptable. I was more disappointed in that than anything else.

Janine Benyus

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Bram Stoker

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Douglas Adams

But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Mike Anderson

Don't overestimate your power. This is not a rubber stamp deal.

Rick Baker

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Bill Engvall

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Henry David Thoreau

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Fred Brown

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'