Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fund

I think the bitterness generated by this election should prompt people of good will in both parties to try and find common ground, or as Democratic Senator Chris Dodd put it, ""Make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.

E. B. White

We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thought leads to bitterness and a shriveled soul. The other leads to wisdom and growth.

Richard L. Evans

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

Travis Gerke

I'm most influenced by people I hate, since most everything I do stems from bitterness and anger. Off the top of my head, I think Gwen Stefani is pretty useless.

James Richardson

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

M. Scott Peck

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Leo Rosten

Satire is focused bitterness.

Edward King

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Wilson Mizner

God sends our relatives, but we can choose our friends.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Mark Oaten

It is a disgrace that the Government should choose the day on which the Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned to conceal these findings.

Upinder Dhillon

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

John B. Robinson

Whatever gods you worship, you realize that they are your gods, the product of your own mind, terrible or amiable, as you may choose to depict them.

David Boies

What Microsoft set out to do through these contracts, and largely succeeded for the time they were in effect, was to deprive consumers of the right to choose between Microsoft and Navigator.

Jeff Chirico

The people in New Hope have been very supportive and have been overwhelmingly helpful in helping us to choose the right people to interview and to come up with a good story and really cooperating better than we could have ever imagined.

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Dave Sica

And he would have had more (shutouts) had we not pulled him with big leads during the season.

Greg Taylor

The combination of the two offensively, as well as, defensively leads the team from the first pitch.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Strong female leads make more of an impact in the U.K. than in Denmark.

Magda Stoczkiewicz

The need for politicians to spend money leads them to reckless development.

Tim Smith

They were missing shots. We're a transition team, so you'll see big leads like that when everybody's hitting.

Howie Dickenman

It?s important (to start fast) but it?s more important not to be down 22-6. We haven?t been getting out to big leads like we had been in those games.

Hideo Mizutani

The market is moving within a small range ... after the 'big event' and the positive response to it. But for now, there are no leads to push the market up further.

Paula Radcliffe

I wouldn't be putting myself on the line if I didn't think I could go in and win both.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Diane Rullan

We're not worried, though. People are just starting to get into the Valentine's Day spirit. Pretty soon the line in here will be out the door.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Mark Schmidt

I think we got the line a lot more than we have been. We played more aggressively.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Steve Cameron

I think that we've managed to put together a competitive line up.

Lindy Ruff

I think that we're getting there, ... Those are two lines that could stick for a while.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Keith Mitchell

His reaction is a little different. That's one of the reasons he's trying to go after some of those balls. Sometimes you have to know where your infield is.

John Montano

I went to (see) how he'd look and how he was going to react to punches.

Willie Randolph

I don't ever react to stuff like that.

Zig Ziglar

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Jim Bell

I think my reaction has been one of shock and awe,

Pierre Lacroix

His first reaction (to the trade) is he was ecstatic.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Richard Dawkins

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom married to immortal verse.