Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Karpova

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Confucius

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

Philip Meyer

Sibling rivalry sometimes leads to the bitterest competition.

Shinzo Abe

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Cosmin Olaroiu

Before the match I would have been very content with a 1-0 win, but now the victory has a bitter taste.

Grant-Lee Phillips

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.

Greg Schrimpf

That was in the back of our minds. There was still a bitter feeling going around the school, and I think we just wanted to make sure that didn't happen to both teams.

Helmut Kohl

Wiesenthal, like few others ... personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. Despite this, he was not bitter and fought for justice admirably.

Mark Ellis

Even as a young guy, he takes control. That's his infield out there, and that's the way it should be.

Doug Miller

Being young, sometimes you don't know how to control your emotions. He'll mature. I'd take him on my team any time.

Alexander Haig

Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.

Alison Field

We found that to be a very strong predictor of starting to use vomiting or laxatives to control weight.

Charli Thorne

We can only control what we do, not what other teams do.

Jeff Russell

We had a few hitches Friday morning that were out of our control, but despite that, everything ran very smoothly and it's been a large success. Vendor response and general productivity was up in spite of the inclement weather.

Phil Martens

To get the volume we want, we need to produce them here in the United States and we need to actually be able to be much more in control of the situation.

Stephanie Coontz

There is still an expectation that men have to know what their wives are doing and have to control them,

Gary McGoffin

We've never really felt psychologically that we have control over our school system. It stifles initiative, it stifles enthusiasm.

Bobby Baldwin

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Don DeLillo

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

Andy Roddick

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Amiri Baraka

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Tony Dungy

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Eva Longoria

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

Jack London

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

Mark Baker

While we were disappointed in our comparable-store sales performance and loss, we had anticipated incurring a loss in the second quarter because of the seasonality of our business,

Jean de la Bruyere

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.