Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Tino Martinez

Not just personally, either. More because of what the team went through. The injuries, the adversity ... we went through so much to get here, and to kind of put it all together at the end of the year is pretty satisfying for everyone in this room.

Jim Heacock

It's great to see him come through that. He's been through a lot of adversity with injuries since he has been here. He has had a great senior year, and you always want that to happen to good people who continue to work hard, and that was certainly him.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Marc Crawford

It was 53 minutes of playing great hockey. You have to find a way to push yourselves when adversity strikes. Sometimes you've got to push your body beyond what it wants to do.

Drayton McLane

Things came together through so much adversity this year. There were so many issues that it took time. But the character came out in them, and that was important when they lost Monday night. Two days later, we're champions.

Jody Jenerette

It was a big win for us to come back tonight when a little adversity came our way, and we responded real well.

Don Davis

It's going to be tough, ... but this team has reacted to adversity very well in the past and this will be no different.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

Donald Cargill

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Don DeLillo

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Doyle Brunson

May the flop be with you.

Archie Panjabi

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Bella Thorne

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

e. e. cummings

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Dolly Parton

I can't do nothing just a little.

Angie Martinez

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Amory Lovins

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Anthony Anderson

I provide a little comic relief.

Thomas Paine

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.