Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Bruce Bochy

I've always admired how Mike has played the game. He's always played it hard. He's always been a leader out there. He plays the game right.

Dan Marino

I've always admired Coach Shula. I thought I'd be drafted a little sooner, but now I'm happy I wasn't and Miami was around to pick me.

Martin Scorsese

I've admired and enjoyed his many musical transformations. For me, there is no other musical artist who weaves his influences so densely to create something so personal and unique.

Christopher Fry

I sometimes think/ His critical judgement is so exquisite/ It leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

Mike Wilson

That's what professional means. You don't settle for mediocrity. I admire that about him. He wants to be the best. And he knows there's work to be done.

John Wooden

That's good, Bill. I admire people who have strong beliefs and stick by them. I really do. We're going to miss you.

David Thornton

You respect him because he's a man of integrity and a man of faith. He treats guys as professionals, and I personally admire him for his intellect of football, the way he teaches guys.

Fouad Ajami

a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

David Lennon

We're here to give our gift for the holiday season to the tourists of New York. We're here on good faith to play. We intend to go to work.

C. S. Lewis

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

C. S. Lewis

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Miley Cyrus

Faith is the main thing. That's kind of why I'm like here in Hollywood: to be like a light, a testimony to say God can take someone from Nashville and make me this, but it's his will that made this happen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Larry Beightol

Teddy Cottrell is one of the original 3-4 guys in the league. He's a legitimate 3-4 guy. I don't know if that's the route he wants to go, but they played well.

Brint Russell

Team before me. That's the philosophy I've put into this team. With the guys back from last year, I feel that will rub off on the other players and will make us successful.

John Smoltz

Sometimes 90 percent of the guys you might get away with it once in a while. You're not getting away with it with him. He's dominant, he really is.

Renaldo Nehemiah

Sometimes guys get on a roll. Powell is on a roll right now.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

John Alexander

Russ is one of those guys who would do anything for you.

Erik Zaidel

Ryan played really well. I was impressed with how those guys played tonight. They took it to us.

Stephen Vinson

Russell will have better games; Mario is going to come along. I still see my role (is), whatever I can do to help, I'll do. I'm just trying to help other guys succeed.

Rashard Lewis

Right now, we're not healthy. We're wounded. We got to get healthy and get our guys back.

Baruch Spinoza

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Jamie Bell

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Janet Reno

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Brendan Gleeson

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Charles R. Swindoll

Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Craig MacDonald

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Clive James

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clint Eastwood

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Adolf Hitler

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Albert Einstein

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Jim Hopson

We did find ourselves in a position of having to go back and manage our customers' expectations.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Elizabeth Bowen

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Matt Giampietro

There is so much respect for that name.

Henning Kagermann

You have to respect that there is a law.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Adele

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Stephen Covey

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Saint Basil

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Henry Cavill

You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.