Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Carney

We feel an obligation to the people of the Gulf Coast, ... We're representing the fortitude and perseverance and strength of those people who are trying to piece their lives back together.

Karim Meghji

At the end of the day, downloading software was a task that takes time and fortitude from consumers.

George Eliot

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

James Sheridan

Jack was scrappy. He didn't stop and wrestled a hard-nosed match. He showed a lot of intestinal fortitude today.

Chucky Atkins

It got close. They kept fighting. That's the kind of test we need going into the playoffs. When we're (in a playoff game) and a team comes back and gets hot, we need to know who has the fortitude to step up and answer.

Chuck Driesell

We looked strong in the first half. We just didn't have the stamina or the fortitude to get stops when we needed them in the second half.

Bill Maher

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.

Richard LaBounty

We bounced back after a tough loss to Gulf Breeze. I'm very proud of our approach.

John Herrlin

Unless the winter is polar, Gulf of Mexico natural-gas output will be back.

Jeb Bush

As Rita moves into the Gulf of Mexico, we are looking to ... make sure that people can get back into their homes as quickly as possible in the Keys.

Roger Simon

A lot of the ice ... floated out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Bill Parsons

You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.

Diana Nyad

The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.

Norman Schwarzkopf

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

Doug Leggate

Any storm going through the Gulf is going to slow the pace of the recovery from Katrina.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Matt Blunt

worth it to protect the lives of Missouri children.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Jim Cavanaugh

It's just too important. We are talking about lives here, ... I'm not going to walk away from it. Period.

Derek Luke

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.

Kevin Kwan

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.

Hilary Rosen

American music has touched everyone's lives throughout its short history,

Julie Johnson

Also, I have a parent volunteer who lives and breathes 'The Wizard of Oz,' and doing this show for the school's first play was partly her idea too.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

S. J. Perelman

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

H. Rap Brown

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Isaac Mizrahi

I have a lot of obligations.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

Audre Lorde

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Denis Waitley

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

Denis Waitley

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

William Shakespeare

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

William Shakespeare

The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Jim Morris

When we got out of college, we wanted to save the world. And now, we are able to save a little piece of it.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Charles Handy

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.