Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Ricky Ray

If we want to be a team that is going to contend for the Grey Cup, we've got to get better offensively,

Ralph Connor

I'm seeing improvement in our times. We're working at getting better. We would like to defend our sectional championship and see if we can contend for a regional spot. Everybody is working very hard enough that we'll see improvement during the year.

Ben Wolcott

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. One good thing is we don't have the heat and wind to contend with.

Chad Bradford

New York is a great situation for me. I worked with Rick Peterson in Oakland and I know what he can do. With all the off-season additions, I'm sure the Mets will be contending for a playoff spot and I want to do all I can to help.

Henry David Thoreau

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Bill Shaw

They kind of surprised us by playing nearly the whole game in zone defense, when they are a man-to-man team. I think they thought they couldn't contend with us inside, man on man.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Mike Melson

Once we have the person in our sights and they see us, we seldom have a struggle.

Ron Peterson

Very seldom it happens, but occasionally it does.