Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Stephen Lang

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Michael Ondaatje

How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.

Harold Rosenberg

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Haile Selassie

Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

Winston Churchill

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Zachary Quinto

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

Walter Murch

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Carlos Arroyo

I saw an opening and I took it. It was important for us to get a win like this. Every time we win one like this it makes us stronger for the future.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Genesis Rodriguez

I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.

Mary Hart

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

Beth Macmillan

They said not only would they like to sponsor it, but they would like to have it on site as part of their opening ceremonies.

Frank Robinson

Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.

Rick Barnes

It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Larry Pleau

Until he tells us he's ready ... We'll see what he says on Sunday.

Chen Yunlin

We will be ready for any complicated situation.

Debbie Stroman

We were ready for her to do something.

Sherry Sealey

We went down there Saturday and we were just not ready to play. We never really did get anything going in that game.

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

Alex Haley

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Albert Pujols

I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work.

E. M. Forster

Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

E. M. Forster

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Garry South

The timing was not accidental. There's more to come.

Bill Swain

The timing of this weather is a little unfortunate.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.