Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Esther Hicks

In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.

Helen Keller

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Jewel

We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development, not only of ourselves but of all humanity... I want you to understand that there never was or has been or will be, in the minds of the founders, including myself, the thought of any reward any notice coming to us for this experiment in brotherly cooperation and comradeship, which we initiated and which has developed, not necessarily because of any efforts of ours, into one of the best regarded organizations in the Negro collegiate world.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

Jayne Anne Phillips

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Jayson Blair

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Ignatius of Loyola

Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Steve Jobs

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

Stephen Graham Jones

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Reggie Miller

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Mel Ott

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

Miguel de Cervantes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

As ill-luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Neil Gaiman

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Clare Boothe Luce

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Anthony Horowitz

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Tommy Franks

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

Sophocles

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

Sophocles

Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Stephen King

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Sophie Swetchine

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.