Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Walter Scott

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Walter Scott

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Winston Churchill

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Henry A. Kissinger

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

John Bytheway

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Joan Collins

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Leslie Mann

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Mark Twain

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

George Mason

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.