Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor McDonald

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Vince Lombardi

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

William Hazlitt

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Robert Kiyosaki

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Ricardo Mayorga

I'm not going to be a coward and make excuses like a lot of fighters when they lose. Whatever the reason, I lost the fight.

John Boyne

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

John Tobin

The man who lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward

Vince Lombardi

You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

James Kallstrom

You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane.

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Thomas a Kempis

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Peter O'Toole

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Dan Brooks

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

David Johnson

I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice.

Samuel Coleridge

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance

Mark Gandler

I know we left some gross money on the table. I know, and so does Olli. But that's not the issue.

Henry David Thoreau

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Hani Durzy

They can say whatever they want about their gross market volume.

Michael McConnell

A lot of the weakness is in the stock already, especially with gross margins still sitting at 60 percent. That's a strong statement about what Intel is doing with costs." ()

Patrick Brown

It's a gross mismanagement and a gross lack of priorities.

Jean Bruyere

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

Craig McHugh

Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling prices for MP3 players and the inventory write-down negatively impacted gross margins.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Jeff Kinney

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Christopher Birchby

I wouldn't play the hand any differently. I made my move and 80 percent of the time, you win with that hand. I took my shot and it didn't work out.

Andy Holt

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.

Gary Shaw

I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory).

Lee Evans

Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Joe Stellmacher

(Alvarez) lays everything out right there for you.

Marie de France

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

J. Taylor

We'll need that week. The way our schedule lays out is probably just right.

Bruce Springsteen

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Susan Schwab

The progress made today really lays the groundwork for negotiations going forward.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald Wildmon

I think the man wants to be the next Fidel Castro.

Rod Thorn

I think with Dajuan, he's obviously a very talented young man,

Donna Norris

I would tell him the 'Bad Man' took her and did this to her. The name just kind of stuck.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Alice Cooper

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

John F. Kennedy

For of those to whom much is given, much is required.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

George Herbert

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.