Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven King

Most horses avoid the battle, but he wants to get involved in it. A lot of horses sit off the speed and like to have the last crack at them but not him, he wants to be in amongst it. When you put him in that position he finds a length.

Mary Pierce

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Jack Peter

We look forward to learning the results of this year's class so we can begin the process of their induction and most importantly, begin preparing to preserve their legacies amongst the game's greatest players and contributors.

Chris Pool

When you stick out amongst 500 kids in the Alamo Dome, you're doing something right. You could see why North Carolina offered a scholarship early.

John Barry

We are all the same page, striving for the same goal. There is great team unity amongst this bunch.

Joyce Bickers

We didn't pull together. We basically tried to play individually and in the game of volleyball, it takes everyone pulling together to be successful. These girls dug deep within themselves to win this invitational ... All in all, this match was played hard, we suffered a few miscues, miscommunication, and a little bit of not moving, but as always these girls talked amongst themselves and worked through these problems and success is what came out of this hard work.

Beau Willimon

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

Charlotte Kasl

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

Jane Addams

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Connie Sellecca

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

Richard G. Scott

What I am trying to teach is that when we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously in order to maintain the blessings promised by those ordinances, then come what may, we have no reason to worry or to feel despondent.

Damian Marley

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

Abu Bakr

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

Albrecht Durer

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Alyson Stoner

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

Donald Ray Pollock

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Tom Ridge

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

Michael Feinstein

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

David Rose

But that many flights, ... oh yeah, we're going to feel it for sure.

Eric Williams

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Rosette Lerias

I don't see any homes, I don't see any buildings. It's just mud. Oh God, this is truly tragic.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Jane Jacobs

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Edgar Mitchell

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

John Milton

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Michael Gove

I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom which I hope can provide unity and change.

Cat Stevens

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Irving Babbitt

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Henry David Thoreau

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.