Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Tim Evans

Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher were not all that strong to begin with.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Joan Rivers

Once you begin to believe there is help ""out there,"" you will know it to be true.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Bobby May

That's not a very good start, I'm afraid. This is a big day for me, an important day, one that when I started thinking about doing this and actually making this appearance, I began to get a little nervous about what's actually happening. Just maintaining your composure is not easy for me, but I'm going to forge forward.

Dr. Kryger

This problem often begins in people when they're in their mid-teens.

Steve Frady

Public safety is essential for a community's quality of life, and it's one of the first things people look at in judging a city.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

Richard Whately

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Bram Stoker

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Ambrose Bierce

Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Alice Walker

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

Anne Lamott

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Anne Lamott

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Source Unknown

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

Uli Hoeness

Good team spirit is a fine thing to have and I'm someone who likes a harmonious atmosphere,

Joe Torre

He's still getting back to where he needs to be. He needs to feel good about his command, because Moose is more about finesse than power.

Janet Reno

and I trust her to do it. And so, what she said is fine by me.

Sigourney Weaver

I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.

Dave Bruns

We don't have any objections to managed care. If people want to join long-term managed-care plans, that's fine with us.

Ryan Russell

We need to stop worrying about our mistakes and have some fun. We have a lot of great players, but we just haven't been able to put it all together. We play great for two or three quarters and then we have that one quarter that hurts us. But we'll get it done. The guys on this team will find a way to make it happen. We have a good team. Our moral may be low right now, but we'll be fine once we get it going. We're not going to quit.

Joe Hamilton

You are always on a fine line with kicks, the timing has to be perfectly right. There, it just wasn't and that was the difference.

Martin Parr

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Joe Crede

Rules are rules and you got to follow them.

Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We held a follow up meeting... they've done a good job.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Eric Walker

(Girting) told me to follow him, ... and he'd get me to the end zone. ... All I saw was the back of his jersey.

Gary Waters

I had a talk with Quincy. I told him ?You gotta lead this team. They follow your lead.? And he responded. This showed his maturity and his leadership.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Randall Park

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Nick Cannon

There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music; I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Kevin Correia

I feel like I can pitch at the major-league level and I think they know that.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I'm playing the way that I normally play here. Just nothing is happening.

Brad Childress

He's three months out of a major surgery. Before we do anything, we're going to get him back to health. All my talk with the trainers is about getting him back to the level of play he was at in 2004.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ayn Rand

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Miranda July

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

Marvin Minsky

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Michael Chabon

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Martha Plimpton

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

Ma Ying-jeou

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Lyle Lovett

I married her just because she looks like you.

Lorin Maazel

In this world, there's even room for quality.

Ross Kemp

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

Marilyn French

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

Jeff Gundy

I don't think they have many weaknesses. I didn't think they had many weaknesses before, either.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Patricia Briggs

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Plautus

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]