Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Owen Meredith

Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Mike Burgess

People can register the day of the race, but it's like anything else. You have to stand in line. It's always best to pre-register.

Kevin English

Competing in this event is going to raise his confidence level. He got to see what he needs to do to get past some of the best talent in the state. There are no easy matches once you get here.

Bobby Bennett

Coal mining is probably one of the best jobs you can get around here.

John Bennett

Coaches are role models. They have to be. That's the way all are. For the kids outside of the classroom, they are role models. Everybody makes mistakes. We're not here to be judged. I wish him the best of luck. I know he will land on his feet.

Sarah Lowe

Coach always tells us it's not necessarily the team with the best players but the best team that wins. I think tonight you saw that. We don't have McDonald's All-Americans. We don't have All-Americans.

Allan Schweyer

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Matt Russell

Colin made the best save of the game. He's the reason we got the momentum going in our favor early in the game.

Brian Wallace

Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

Sopheeng Toun

I have three sisters and two brothers. My younger brother and I were born here, but the rest of my family is from Cambodia. My family went through hard times in Cambodia and came here in the early '80s.

Khalil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . . but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Jake Bugg

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

English 19th Century Proverbs

The man who is born in a stable is not a horse.

Linda Jacobs

Their mom was able to feed them when they were first born because their needs weren't so great and they only took a little at a time. But as they grew, they needed a lot more and she couldn't produce more milk to keep them going. Peanut was a lot smaller than Pumpkin and wasn't growing, so we couldn't take a chance.

William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.

Ville Nieminen

The ultimate if you were born in Finland ... or in Sweden.

Jan Perry

These are jobs that are born out of an empty parking lot, ... So for me, that is the most compelling reason why I pushed to get this project.

Bobby Labonte

When I quit driving it one day, I want to see 25 guys in line wanting to drive it because it must be a great car. You want people to want to drive the car. That would be better than any money you could get to have that feeling.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Tana French

We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

Sylvia Plath

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Rumi

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Tom Robbins

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

Steve Lacy

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.