Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Figert

This is a real crucial time for our team. It might determine if we contend for a playoff berth at the end of the season, so we just need to focus on getting as many points as possible.

Victoria Jackson

We have a team that can contend for a national title.

Zach Johnson

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

Kurt Busch

It feels good to get off to a great start. But we're just two races in. I'd like to say that we're a championship contender with the way we ended last year and we'll just try to keep our momentum rolling forward.

Henry David Thoreau

Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.

Anthony Smith

Our goal is to win the state championship. That is the goal, and as a program, we've said that we want to contend for the state title every year. We know what we need to do to reach that goal, and it's about perseverance.

John C. Calhoun

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

Margaret Cho

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

Henry Ian Cusick

When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.

Kevin Keegan

Shaun has taken a knock and it looks to me as though he may be doubtful for the first match,

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Glen Johnson

Roy is an easy step up for Joe, a marketing tool, but if he wants to fight someone with prestige and credibility then it would be me or Tarver.

Jaromir Jagr

The way I feel right now, he may have a day off tomorrow. He will have an easy day. But that's okay. I might be back next week.

Robert Townsend

These are stretch targets - they are not easy for us.

Jerry Bailey

This is as easy as you can win,

Cathy Kapica

This is easy to understand and is the next generation of nutrition information.

James Boyd

This is an industry where it's very easy for your competitors to reach parity with your hardware. We're differentiating the product in a way that plugs into the passengers' emotions.

Dan Gebo

This is hard to explain, but easy to demonstrate.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Andriy Shevchenko

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Tacitus

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

Graeme Souness

I am saddened at the way things have worked out. I wish the club, the players and the supporters good fortune and success going forward.

David Nicholson

My good fortune was that I married her.

Marcus Aurelius

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Ban Ki-moon

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Cynthia McKinney

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Audie Murphy

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Carl Sandburg

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.