Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Turner

I had one of my good friends kicked out of college for domestic violence. He had his college career ruined.

Bob Stanley

I felt a part of it in some ways, not as a teammate, but as a former player who spent his whole career with the Red Sox. I always root for them and I hope they do well.

Masahiko Harada

I finally called it quits and it's good that I felt very comfortable with my last jumps. I was moved by the chants of my name. It was indeed all the fan support that kept me moving on with my career until today.

Michael Barrett

I feel for him. He's had a great career and unfortunately with the way the game has gone, let's be truthful, it hasn't helped him in any regard. I feel for him in that way, too.

James Wright

I feel like this is a career goal. I've been here four years with the seniors. It's really tough to say goodbye to them.

Bob Fredericks

I did mention to Kevin before the game that his state tournament career started with Desert knocking us out in the quarters. He didn't want it to end that way.

Allan Houston

I did everything I possibly could to get back and finish my career the way I would have liked to. My injuries just wouldn't let me do it.

Jon Bernthal

I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

Tom Brands

I can't express how happy I am that my former coach, Dan Gable, has decided to join my staff at Iowa. He's been with me every step of the way during my career and this will be no different. There's no one in the world who's better at working with wrestlers and I'm glad he's on board.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of oak as they be; There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be: There are no men like Englishmen, So tall and bold as they be! And these will strike for England, And man and maid be free To foil and spoil the tyrant Beneath the greenwood tree.

Alexander MacLaren

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

Alexander Pope

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Alexander Pope

Every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Alexa Chung

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

Saxby Chambliss

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we've got to be very careful how we address it on our side.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Colin Hanks

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Max Baucus

This legislation has tremendous momentum. It's going to pass. It's going to be enacted and the president is going to sign it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Amy Robach

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Alison Lohman

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

Ann Jillian

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

Ann Brashares

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Ann Brashares

There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.

Ann Brashares

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

Ann Coulter

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

Andrzej Wajda

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

Robert Duvall

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Robert De Niro

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

Valerie Harper

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

Valerie Harper

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

Ulysses S. Grant

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Gaston Bachelard

It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.

Hippocrates

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hillary Clinton

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Everett Dirksen

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.