Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Catherine McCartney

We've spoken out and said you can stand up and you don't have to be afraid of anybody. But it won't mean anything unless the people in the communities take that opportunity the next time the IRA comes to their door and say to them 'I'm not going to allow you to bully me'.

Chinese Proverbs

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still

Rob Varley

Bob cares a lot about the success of Cocoa Beach. He's a regular guy who isn't afraid of hard work. Let me tell you -- it was very difficult for the tourism industry after Sept. 11. We were hurting.

Wesley Hill

What I try to emphasize more than anything else is don't be afraid to make a mistake. That's how you learn what you can't do, and what you don't like to do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Nate Robertson

Leyland's not afraid to yell at you from the dugout. It's situational things, not pitch selection. When he says something, I take it to the bank. I trust what he says.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Leadership is not about being afraid to lead or make mistakes, ... the whole culture is about being safe and risk averse.

Susan Chapman

So many bad things have happened, they are afraid to hope. Until it's actually voted on by the commission, they're afraid to have any trust in the process.

Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared

Ron Bonjean

Senator Kerry's comments used for campaign fund-raising purposes are simply over the top, extremely inappropriate and factually incorrect.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Ken Holland

We've got some more people at training camp we're looking at, but nobody major.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Richard Bernstein

What we're seeing today is a relief rally from last week. There is really nothing to hurt the market today. All the techs are rebounding well.

Alexander Pope

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

Alberta Hunter

The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

Debbie Ford

The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt.

E. L. Konigsburg

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

E. L. Konigsburg

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

E. M. Forster

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Merle Shain

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

Robert B. Parker

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing.

Steven Price

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Rick Chryst

If it's a part, it's just a part. Each institution is different. TV might be a part for some schools, and nonexistent for others.

Todd Moody

I was surprised that Dayton was moved into our district. I thought that it might be Barbers Hill.

R. Ingram

I was pleased with what we saw, It might be several years before we go out there again.

Brian Lara

If we had rested him we might have had his services in Durban and here.

Walt Jocketty

If we had won that game, ... the whole Series might have been different.

Randolph Morris

If we retrieved the ball, it might have been a different outcome.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Longchenpa

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Marc Ostrofsky

Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Sharon Salzberg

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Sharon Salzberg

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Sharon Salzberg

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Nick Swisher

It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.

Georg Brandes

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

William Ellery Channing

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

W. S. Merwin

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Rudyard Kipling

Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

Virginia Woolf

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

Vince Flynn

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

Samuel Johnson

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

James Anthony Froude

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Elvis Stojko

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

Claude Monet

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Clifford Geertz

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

Coventry Patmore

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."