Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Beth Riesgraf

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Bernard Barton

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

Aron Ralston

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Bill Vaughan

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Ron Wilson

That was huge, to respond to some adversity. We're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road, and it's great for our confidence, to be able to win that kind of game.

James Fleming

That was the best second half I've seen us play ... We scored only three points in the first half, and came back to score 22 in the second. I was impressed with the sense of urgency in the face of adversity with which we played.

Dan Cleary

We have the composure and leadership in here to know what we have to do. It's a little bit of adversity that we have to face, we just have to get through it.

Frank Schade

We have a lot of kids back. What they accomplished this year with 14 wins was far, far better than I had ever dreamed. I thought they worked through some adversity. Most games we went into I thought we were the underdog, and I was very pleased with how they handled themselves.

Yanni

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Duane Blackburn

We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a challenge, no doubt. Kids like Wolf and (sophomore) Guy Price and some of the others, they will augment Chandler at the lighter weights. My assistant, Bo Ramsey, has done a wonderful job bringing all of them along.

Keith Newman

We've gotten some people back on our side. We haven't gotten them all back. But the more we win, the more we think we can get them behind us again.

Sean Hill

We have to make sure we come out with a little more fire in the first period and take the play to them because when you don't, you're playing from behind all night, ... That's when you get penalties and when you get put away. And that's what happened.

Kirk Ferentz

Usually when you see a stat like that, at least for a team like us, that's an indicator you're coming from behind and you've got a lot of work to do. But you've got to give our opponent a lot of credit. They played a great game.

Hope Davis

Usually the wife and mother who's left behind is the wronged one, the one holding the family together, ... In this case, she's just as self-absorbed as he is and isn't too much better with the kids.

John Lawhon

Usually someone will develop into the leading scorer later in the season, and we'll have a bunch of players behind him. I'd rather have it like this.

S. Hughes

With the entire staff of the fishing group working behind the scenes to secure donations, we're hoping to raise many thousands of dollars that will go directly to impacted families and individuals in the fishing industry.

Mark Dubach

That was a huge comeback for us. It was a situation where these kids played hard and wanted to win.

Jon Nebel

We were hopefully going to make a comeback there. You just need one chance.

Denis Medeiros

You can eat seafood, poultry, lean meats, most veggies and fruits. Cut down on sweets, butter, margarine, refined grains, milk and yogurt. It does have mostly healthy foods but does not have many menu selections. It is making a comeback and has some science credibility.

Larry Brown

Maybe if we'd have had some possessions that were a little better later, we wouldn't have had to play perfectly at the end. But I was thrilled with the way they competed, having young kids out on the floor late and making a comeback like that. It's just disappointing, but there were some positive things with our young kids.

Jamie Dixon

We haven't had a lot of 3 or 4 days off so far. It's a good opportunity to get some rest and comeback with plenty of energy and determination. I think it's going to be a good thing and we'll be ready to go when we return to practice.

Nick Swisher

When you see someone get as hot as he's been, it's usually for one or two weeks. He's been doing it for two months. If he doesn't get the Comeback Player of the Year award, it's just ridiculous. No one else should be in the running.

Brent Norberg

I was pleased with our comeback after being down in the fourth quarter. We really haven't been able to do that. We aren't real deep so we run out of gas sometimes.

Ben Crenshaw

from the greatest comeback in the history of the Ryder Cup.

Sergio Garcia

To comeback from that double-bogey and shoot six-under from there, that was a pretty good effort. I've been working a lot on my putting and its time to make things happen. It great to see putts going in. It is a new feeling for me and its a wonderful one. Hopefully we can keep it going like this.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Rhonda Rompola

That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

Mark Riggin

With the experience that we have, we should have a decent year. A lot of these guys have three years of varsity experience. They know what I expect, and we want to win the section and win a playoff game.

Jim Whitesell

We're really thankful. It's a decent rivalry without over-the-top crazies. They saw a good game.

Henry Hewitt

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Chris Mitchell

Miami has a decent shot ... I have the opportunity to play early.

Steve Bates

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

David Friedman

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Manson Hill

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

Matt Blair

We could have folded, but I'm really proud of how our kids fought back.

Craig Manning

We played OK. The girls fought hard and had a good attitude, and it was enough for today. But we still have things we can work on.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Idina Menzel

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

Ian Mckellen

It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.