Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Hopman

We have never given up, no matter how bleak things looked. These guys are fighters; they could be losing 24-2, and they'd still never quit.

Mark E. Smith

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

Craig Young

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

Philip Goodhart

There were some pretty bleak moments, ... I'd never edited anything before, and there were times when I thought that we hadn't been able to make it work.

Tom Kontos

It was already pretty bleak for those vehicles for several months in a row,

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

Bill Griffith

Adele is one of the most, to coin a cliche, life-affirming people I've ever met, especially because of her bleak outlook,

Willie Randolph

No matter how bleak things look, in this clubhouse we're going to stay positive and keep playing. Things can change around.

Gerry Adams

Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation ... maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland

Razia Khan

It's felt it's too soon after the introduction of euro notes and coins for any change. The ECB will not do anything to overshadow that move.

Richard Parks Bland

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

Keith Hembre

Oil is a double-edged sword. From one aspect, it lifts overall inflation but from the other side of the same coin it places a constraint on growth. So if oil prices remain high, the implications for the Fed get a little dicey,

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.

Jose Gasset

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Brigitte Bardot

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Bill Hybels

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

John Ramunno

We won the coin toss, took the kickoff, and went all the way down the field.

Elie Wiesel

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.