Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Alan Watts

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Chip Conley

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

William Shakespeare

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

Charlotte Bronte

Adversity is a good school.

Charles Dickens

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Beth Moore

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Suzi Babos

We accomplished our main goal of staying undefeated at home. Now we look forward to welcoming Stanford because we have a lot deeper lineup than last year. I expect a close match.

Dave Hubert

We always have the expectation that we will work as hard as we can to win as many games a possible. In spite of losing some close games early, this team did improve as the year went on.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Daniel Merideth

We always have concerns about him coming to work but he loved his work so much, he was going to do it until he retired.

Pete Hertler

We always have a good time coming to this tournament. We played well and fought hard in our games. The wind made it tough on the hitters, so pitching and defense took over.

Jerry Green

We always enjoyed the picnic, especially when it was in Bushkill Park and had the rides for the kids. This year we had to hold off because of the disaffiliation situation. With the new officers coming in, we didn't have time. But we'll go back to it next year.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Gary Moody

With those three we have a little more depth at those inside spots,

Chris Bowers

We're rotating every other series, and Corvelli had a good day. I feel like there will be good depth at the position. You will always have a fresh guy out there.

Mark Hackett

We've got a pretty good feel for this team. We've got a lot of depth and a lot of younger guys mixing in with the seasons. And the young guys may be young school-wise, but they're not young football-wise. They can play.

Pat Mitchell

We're going to have to have some depth come in and spend the week really working on those back-up guys and get them ready to go,

Chris Parsons

With numbers comes quality. You just don't know who it might be by the end of the year. The problem is we don't have the depth we've had.

Larry Eustachy

We're just not good enough right now from a depth experience. You need to make plays late in the game. We didn't.

Mary Young

Amanda's been our floor leader and huge for us on the outside. To take her out, we need to learn to get some strength in other places, ... Even though we lost that game, it was good for us to develop some more depth and play through some of those mistakes and errors.

Jim Calhoun

A lot of teams play us in a grind, not in a wide-open game. That played to our depth and our experience.

Joe Quinlan

It's not just depth in our conference; it's the quality of the depth. That helps with seeding.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Sonnie Bentley

We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Dawn Staley

We faced elimination, so we know what it feels like. Seattle doesn't at this point, so it (the pressure) is going to be on them. They're supposed to win.

Todd Abbott

We faced a really good pitcher our first game.

Randy Osnes

We faced a kid last night that threw different than what we saw tonight, so we had to make some adjustments.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

John Smoltz

It's the fifth time we've faced each other over the last two years. He's up 3-2, but it's been five great games.

Jeff Jillson

It's a huge win for us because we need to start somewhere. We've been disappointed with the recent results of our play, but when you are faced with a long road trip like this its always good to start off with a win.

Josh Sharpless

It's a little frustrating because everyone else has faced hitters now but me. Hopefully, I'll be ready before too much longer.

Alan Faneca

When you've got 50-plus guys doing it one way, those guys will adapt. It may not be who they were, but it's who they became.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

John Richardson

We were a stronger team than they were. I thought we were a little tentative at times, but halfway through first set the guys played smart tennis. The last set scores were pretty convincing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Jerry Bovee

This (amendment) was written to say if you want to be in the association, we want you to play. I don't know of any school in our association that can't meet this requirement.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Stuart Rose

This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,

Geoff Peterson

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

Peter Hitchens

It's a better performance from refining and marketing.

Liza Minnelli

It was done in one night. It was one performance only. That was it. That was our shot.

Steve Davies

It was a standout performance if I ever saw one.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.

John Fuchs

We're right on schedule with where we should be. I'm very pleased with how things are going.

Maurice Greenberg

We are also very pleased we could reach an amicable settlement with Prudential,

Kobe Bryant

We're pleased with the way we played. We feel good.

Brian Oxman

We're pleased with the results. It's time to get on to new and better things.

Randy King

We're pleased with the distinction, but we think there's more to do.

Chris Greene

We're pleased with our wildlife rehabilitators in this area,

Rick Ernst

We're pleased with how the project is going so far.

Jayson Ahern

We're pleased when a test like this is able to demonstrate the efficacy of our technology.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Mark Tennis

They took the head-to-head thing to a new extreme.

Brad Stiles

They took it to us in the first half.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Larry Jacobs

It's not like he took this for granted.

Drew Barrymore

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,

Adriana Cruz

These are all things that can be turned into a brand.

Tubby Smith

We really got rattled. They really had another gear; they turned it up.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Jay Wright

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

Steve Burgess

To be honest, I thought this should be a very comfortable win, and that's how it turned out.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Charles Dickens

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

David Hobson

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

Diablo Cody

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

Cecilia Bartoli

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

Carrie Ann Inaba

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Bill Watterson

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

William Shakespeare

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

E. B. White

We've won here now so we don't have to worry about the 15-year thing.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Kent Kersten

We have some bruises and we may have one or two wrestlers out. We were injury-free when we won the duals championship in 2003. It's not the same this year.

William Shakespeare

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

William Shakespeare

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.