Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norwegian Proverb

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Mike Levine

The faculty have been working hard on this for a year now. We are starting a school improvement team which consists of faculty, parents, and students.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Auberon Herbert

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Richard Needham

What is success in this world? I would say it consists of four simple things -- to live a lot, to love a lot, to laugh a lot, and from it all, to learn a lot.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Dani Shapiro

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Rick Hackman

Here at the PUC, we see a kind of gathering storm. Here in the next few months, you will be seeing some sobering utility bills.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Andruw Jones

All that matters now is another World Series. It's been a long time. We have done everything else, so now it's time to win a World Series again.

Jerry Steffen

Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point-of-view.

Steve Ballmer

It never matters where we are, ... We know we have to push, push, push, push, push to be better.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Robert Moses

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Warren Buffett

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

William Wallace

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

DeLoss Dodds

It was a minor mistake and the money was paid back to the university out of his own pocket. Still, it is a violation.

Ruben Escudero

There were some small, minor things that needed to be upgraded, and we complied with that.

Jon Rauch

It was a very minor surgery. It was more a cleanup than anything else. It wasn't like a labrum or rotator cuff tear. I bounced back quickly and I'm ready to go.

Bob Bowlsby

There could be more to it than we know, but I would be shocked if it is more than a minor deal.