Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Idina Menzel

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

George B. McClellan

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

William Reddington Hewlett

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.

Whitey Ford

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Wendy Kopp

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Nancy Gibbs

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Jennifer Shoaf

That we won with our defense, that's no surprise. North has better shooters than we do. We just hoped we could score enough to stay in the game, then win it with defense.

Mike Dee

We're very pleased with the way things are going. This has been everything we had hoped it would be.

Tim Lewis

We hoped that people who would come on a Wednesday would also give us a try on Sunday. It's been very successful.

Jim Saxton

Today we got everything we could have hoped for.

Phil Brady

We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.

Dan Rooney

I would have hoped there would have been more minority hires right now.

Ali Lacey

I'm a little better (this year). Not as much as I hoped to be, but I am a little better.

Roger Turner

I had hoped to retire in two years, and that's likely not possible now. I'm sure that's true for a lot of our members.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Randy Tinseth

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

Jim Scherr

We're very pleased with where the U.S. team is and optimistic about what we can do the rest of the Games.

Gerrit Zalm

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

Giancarlo Fisichella

We are optimistic that this problem will not re-occur.

Chris Ault

We are optimistic he can pass it, but if not, we would like to put him in a JC.

Tom Hudachko

We're pretty optimistic that we can reach some sort of partnership.

Bill Hader

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Octavio Paz

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

Thomas Beecham

Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.

Jill Scott

Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Jack Johnson

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Andy Roberts

We just haven't decided, and we don't have a timeline to do that.

Tysen Kendig

There really is no timeline for something like this.

Brian Gordon

They haven't disclosed their long-term impact, frankly, because they don't know it yet. It's an unknown timeline for redevelopment right now.

Steve Gleason

We all have a timeline. Most of us don't live like we have a timeline.

Pindar

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Pervez Musharraf

Wherever or whoever wants to do that, let's do it.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Shaun Alexander

We're all just kind of in the groove. And no one wants to get off anything right now.

Gary Payton

I don't think Shaq really worries about it. I think he wants to play well, but he doesn't really worry about it. ... It's over.

Victor Rodriguez

For whoever wants to come, we're going to be here for them.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.