Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Winston Churchill

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Winston Churchill

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Winston Churchill

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

Winston Churchill

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Winston Churchill

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Zach Galifianakis

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Rick Riordan

A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We’re more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—

Mallory Ortberg

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Cassandra Clare

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Lisa Kleypas

Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Edsger Dijkstra

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

Amy Poehler

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Richard McCann

We suspended the meeting, ... Karen called the police to have him removed from the meeting.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Russell Brand

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

William S. Burroughs

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Rebekah Brooks

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Robert Reich

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police