Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Nathan Lane

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Campbell

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.