Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Carlson

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Nicholas Sparks

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

Paul Light

It's a rare moment when you get a housecleaning like this. It could presage a strong turnaround for an agency that's been adrift for years if not decades.

Bill Bailey

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

Rick Parry

We've been 30 points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it's clear for everyone we're a lot closer now.

Warren Brown

These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.

Greg Smith

The crew have been transferred to the police launch Fearless and the yacht has been left adrift and the emergency beacon will continue to flash until it's picked up by whoever.

Bat for Lashes

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

Colin Firth

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Adrien Brody

I think it proves I can hold my own in a big studio movie, and I can play a leading man without making him a stereotypical leading man. We can be sensitive human beings in this world and be tough guys, too.

Bruce Cutler

He is one of the most repulsive and disgraceful human beings you will ever see.

Jim Calhoun

He is without question one of the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. He's streetwise and loveable all at the same time.

Muhammad Yunus

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Herbie Hancock

What establishes value is something that is going to move humanity forward. If humanity is not in the equation, it's like the planet without any human beings on it.

Margaret Sanger

We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.

Carl Gustav Jung

Today as never before it is important that human beings should not overlook the danger of the evil lurking withing them. It is unfortunately only too real, which is why psychology must insist on the reality of evil and must reject any definition that regards it as insignificant or actually non-existent.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

J. C. Chandor

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Lucas Glover

Just the experience is going to be great, just being there and walking around.

Chris Traulsen

I think it's a good long-term investment. They've got a ton of experience between Mason Hawkins and Stanley Cates, and the managers have significant portions of their own net worth in the Longleaf funds. They have every incentive to do right by their shareholders.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Mark Knowles

It can get lonely right out of high school going to the tour, especially if you are not winning. In college, you are part of a team, which is nice. It's an invaluable experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Paul Wood

Kim is a real good person to have on the team because she is fun, but also knows when to take it serious, ... Leshia will play between the midfield and the attack. She is like a new player for us. We hope she can come back healthy.

Morris Gleitzman

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Shel Silverstein

Have you been to The Land of Happy,Where everyone's happy all day,Where they joke and they singOf the happiest things,And everything's jolly and gay?There's no one unhappy in Happy, There's laughter and smiles galore.I have been to The Land of Happy - What a bore!

Josh Klinghoffer

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Diego Maradona

I'd be the happiest person in the world if he came, but I don't think he will.

Alberto Fujimori

Today is the happiest day of my life.

Debbie Armstrong

I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.

William Phelps

The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

Geno Auriemma

The more you look around the NCAA Tournament, you see a lot of teams that had a lot of success and had a lot of trouble sustaining it. One of the things I'm happiest about is that we've been able to sustain it. Ultimately, that's going to be whether or not you were great. We've been able to do that. That's a long time, 13 years.

Ludwig Beethoven

Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men

Kaley Cuoco

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Tryon Edwards

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Joseph Joubert

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Patrick Murray

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Thomas Aquinas

There is no leisure about politics.

Scipio Africanus

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

John F. Kennedy

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

Swami Sivananda

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Scott Parker

If you can think of a powerhouse (team), they most likely offered Ben.

Jeff Bezos

Improvements in the year 2000 will not only be visible in terms of new products and services but should also likely be visible financially as well.

Lindsay Davenport

If I win the U.S. Open, I'll most likely stay there. So I'll just concentrate on that.

Michael Gartenberg

In general, the older your hardware, the more likely there are going to be no drivers, and there might be BIOS problems,

Robert Rosenberg

There are obstacles here that are artificial. There?s really no reason why it should be taking this long,

Heber J. Grant

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

Karl Marx

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

Si Robertson

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Lou Holtz

You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.

James Macdonald

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Mark Serdjenian

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

Pat Buchanan

programmed and scripted to stay away from controversy.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Gong Li

I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.