Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Bible Bible

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Buffalo Bill

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The spirit that does not soar is destined to grovel

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.'

Tom Rath

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Sergei Kupriyanov

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

Alicia Silverstone

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

African Proverb

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

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.

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.

Mark Hyman

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Anthony Coley

It seems like every rock he turns over, excessive spending and fiscal mismanagement is staring him in the face.

Barry Hyman

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear. There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

Barry Hyman

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear, ... There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

Rick Berry

This market is not moving on fundamentals. There's an incessant flow of money, and you have a lot of stocks at excessive valuations. Once the flow of money subsides, you can look for a severe correction.

David Gergen

There's a tendency after you win your second term to think you're invulnerable. You're not just king of the mountain, you've mastered the mountain. That can often lead to mistakes of excessive pride.

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Jena Malone

It wasn't worth sifting through such excessive b.s., ... I tried to fit in and put on makeup and pretty dresses, but I always felt like a weirdo.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Antony Garrett Lisi

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Russ Pate

We always found the right person at the right time for the right job. Of course, you need volunteers, and we had so many who contributed.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Eden Phillpotts

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

John Prendergast

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

John Howard

It's every parent's greatest wish, and I'm very happy for them.

Jason Cook

It's a situation right now where the greatest need is rescuing people, ... It's essentially plucking people from rooftops.

Jesse L. Martin

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

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Evelyn Glennie

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.

Rick Smith

It's about as primitive an instrument as you can get.

Shyam Saran

a very useful instrument in bridging differences between the two countries.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

K'naan

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

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Charles Studd

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Charles Spurgeon

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Charles Spurgeon

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Spurgeon

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Chin-Ning Chu

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

Robert Krueger

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

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.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Patrick Barry

I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.

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.

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.