Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Willie Mitchell

Knowing it's a rival game, we knew they were going to play way above themselves. We just didn't get the job done.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

Rachel Platten

I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

Robert Frost

Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

Robert Putnam

It can be heard even above the roar of a helicopter, which is important if you want to tell people anything. That's the problem with bullhorns ? over a helicopter, they can't really understand what you're saying.

Dan Shultis

He knows the game so well, he's above and beyond any player on the floor. He's almost like having a college player on the floor.

Richard Butler

What we've got to be certain about above all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as a matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this stuff, ... And there's a credible report not fully verified that they may indeed have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade Center.

Scott Smith

Here at KGH we do between 2000 and 3000 mammograms per year, and each year we find five to ten cancers. According to the above national statistics, we can expect to find one - to two additional cancers per year, and find them earlier - in Stage I rather than in stage IV or V.

Joe Jordan

He shouldn't just say this or infer that. If he has any information as he says he has, he should talk to you and very carefully explain it to you.

Marshall Curry

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

Asa Hutchinson

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Enrique Manzanilla

Restricted use pesticides must be handled carefully in order to protect the users and the environment. Companies selling these chemicals must make sure that they do not fall into inexperienced hands.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Charles Lieberman

Investors worried this morning when the oil inventory report was released, but the market is taking a second look and interpreting the data more carefully now.

Philippe Petit

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

Carlo Rubbia

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

Ahmed Qorei

I invite the Israel, the international community, the world to listen carefully, to remember carefully who is the murderer.

John Gottman

Kids find the setting of limits comforting and soothing. They need to know that (the parent is) in control.

Kevin Foley

I think it may take a little while for teachers to feel that comfort level again.

David LaPointe

He wants to go that route in the comforts of his own home, that's his business, but don't start putting it out there.

John Hollman

There is no comfort words can provide in a situation like that. The truest comfort I could give was simply holding him in my arms, and letting him lay his head on my shoulder and crying with him. That's all I could do.

Sam Martin

We try to provide comfort at school so they know they have someone to talk to.

Allen Terrell

We've been waiting all year for someone to step up and grab hold of that fifth spot, and he's obviously doing that and then some. He's finding that level of comfort freshmen usually take time to find. He wants to step up and show he's a player we can count on.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Arvo Part

I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me.

James Matthews

I could see the unimaginable destruction, and then I saw those comforting hands.

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Ron Artest

I'm looking forward to being bashed and cursed out. That's going to be a lot of fun.

Lance Johnstone

It's not like the position is cursed here.

Elizabeth Watson

Yes, scary. And people were telling them to 'just shut up,' and cursed at them.

quran

Cursed be the makers of the pit, / Of the fire (kept burning) with fuel, / When they sat by it, / And they were witnesses of what they did with the believers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Cursed be the gold that gilds the straitened forehead of a fool!

John Boyle O'Reilly

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

O. Singh

My life in this world is cursed and worthless!

Jake T. Austin

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.

Gail Goestenkors

I was just a little worried about fatigue and playing this 11 a.m. game. I was really proud of the team. I thought it took us a little while to get going, but once we hit our stride, I thought we had a nice inside-outside game going.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Julian Schnabel

It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings

Dick DeGuerin

It ain't over. The Fat Lady hasn't sung.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Keith Gilbertson

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Frank Thomas

He knows how to pitch to the fat part of the ballpark.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Jerry Nelson

John Belushi always hated the puppets. He just hated them with a passion.

Shania Twain

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

Carolyn Freeman

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his music is his legacy. I hated to see it just go away.

Craig Venter

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

Neal Pilson

He was the most talked about television personality of all time. Whether you loved him or hated him, people wanted to hear what he had to say.

Gary Mormino

He was the most hated man in North Florida.

Peter Wagner

He hated to be away from Judy. He would very seldom spend the night without his wife.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Lauren Oliver

I’ve always hated being looked at.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Lynn Kimbrough

It could be something criminal. We're in the middle of the investigation.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Todd Wilkinson

We're in the middle of it. We're rolling now. There won't be any let up.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Salman Rushdie

optimism is a disease

Robert Louis Stevenson

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Sarah Dessen

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Samuel Johnson

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

John Irving

He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

John Hench

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

John F. Kerry

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Mitt Romney

Let me put it very plainly: If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.