Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Stewart

I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the wrapping off of it, I'm like, 'I've got to look.' It's like yelling at a dog going, 'Squirrel!' I cannot not look. And then I spend the rest of the time sitting there with a wet washcloth on my forehead trying to regain consciousness.

Nadine Velazquez

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

Douglas Altabef

I think the market is beset with tenacious negativity. It's a 'glass is half empty' attitude in the market, where bad news is interpreted as bad news and any good news is just OK.

Neal Pilson

I think the game in some ways sums up the American experience, ... I think a lot of people see their daily lives and the history of the country in the NFL because the game is also linked to the personality and the attitude of the country. There's a high degree of teamwork, an emphasis on toughness.

Michael Jacobson

I think the attitude in the U.S. is changing. A lot of policy makers are opening up to that sort of thinking, ... But there's not a lot of money for programs like that, and the Canadian system is much smaller than ours.

Don Cooper

I think the attitude he now brings into this season is because he knows what he's got. He's a very confident guy, and he believes in that stuff, the way he should.

Jason Michaels

There is a difference. How it?s different I?m not sure I can explain. I know that we?re playing the game better. There?s an attitude that, even when we get beat, we come back in the next day and we?re ready to go.

Thomas Blomberg

There is no evidence of attitude change or that boot camps make any change in delinquency.

Jacques Monod

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

Miyavi

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

Sven Eriksson

I don't know what it means, but I'm not that pessimistic, I'm born that way. Miracles happen in life now and then.

Rose Mashigo

I don't know much but I do know this - you are not in any situation by chance, every circumstance has been born of our thoughts and our utterances.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Wendy Hastings

Kirsten has such great determination on the court. She runs down every shot and always give 100 percent.

Vladimir Lenin

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

Winston Churchill

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Winston Churchill

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Zachary Quinto

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

William Godwin

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

Vince Lombardi

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Shenstone

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William J. Clinton

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.