Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Wall

We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.

Bible Bible

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

James Carville

Maybe it comes back stronger. No one forgot how to play the saxophone or how to cook or write. Or have a good time. That's all still there. Calamities and disasters are part of New Orleans' history. This too shall pass.

Hui Liangyu

The Party and the government are affectionate to the people though typhoon and other calamities are merciless, ... We hope you will resume your work and rebuild your homes in a high morale as soon as possible.

L. Estrange

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

William Archer

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others

Edward Jenner

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

Milo Ventimiglia

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Yiddish Proverbs

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

African Proverb

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery

Suzanne Pleshette

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.

Vince Vaughn

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Wole Soyinka

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Ian Martin

We have witnessed a worrying trend of excessive use of force.

Dave Duncan

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

David Stern

We haven't had excessive fisticuffs. These are things that commissioners worry about. And truth be told, our player reputation in the testing that we do is rebounding quite well from a year ago.

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Kurt Knauff

That was the greatest thing she ever did.

Shimon Samuels

That was the greatest disappointment for a man who had invested his whole life in this.

Brian McCann

That won't sink in for a while. He's one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

Ralph Regula

You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career,

John Warden

With the greatest respect for your Honor, that isn't enough time for us.

David Hudson

will be remembered as the patron of some of Mercer's greatest years.

Sidney Crosby

Who better to mould him than the greatest player ever.

John Capel

Justin Gatlin's on his way to being the greatest ever.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

David Norman

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

Jason Falkner

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

C. S. Lewis

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Bill Vaughan

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

William Shakespeare

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

William Channing

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

Nic Taunton

I'm speechless. I'm so overwhelmed with joy that I get this opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Patrick Barry

I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Kenichiro Sasae

There has been no breakthrough to this point, and the prospect is not bright.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Kevin Rand

We're taking our time with him. He's too valuable a prospect not to take your time with him. We want to make sure everything's done right and he can come back as well as can be expected.

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,