Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juanita Johnson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

David Lee

He really understands the game. And I just really think it's a big blessing that I can have my first coach in the NBA be a guy I can learn so much from.

Matt Hasselbeck

Had I been a first-round pick -- which never would have happened -- and they made me play, I wouldn't have done any good. I would have been bad. So I wasn't ready. So it's kind of a blessing in disguise for me.

Kyle Moore

Going into this year, I expected nothing less than a state championship. Playing with these guys is a real blessing because we have such a great work ethic and a drive to win.

Jonathan Byrd

God's been teaching me to let go of my life. And I'm going to let him be in control -- all I have to do is be faithful, and I'll be a blessing to others.

Katie Johnson

I think it's a very positive thing. It's a blessing in disguise,

Bill Fries

It certainly is not a blessing for managed-care companies.

Kitty Collins

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

A. Johnson

I thought something like this wouldn't happen until maybe next season, ... I know how hard it is for offensive linemen to break in on this level. Getting back to my natural position has really been a blessing for me. I'm much more comfortable now.

Maria Sharapova

I was in that period right after I won Wimbledon, ... The next four months, I felt like I had to win every match. It's a matter of telling yourself that it's impossible to win everything ? no matter what people say. You can't control people's actions. My big thing is to just keep working hard. Because one day, you're going to be on court and you'll win a match and realize that the hard work paid off. That's exactly what I did last year. I lost here and I worked my butt off.

Marc Rotenberg

Key escrow would not have prevented what took place. And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.

Marc Rotenberg

Key escrow would not have prevented what took place, ... And the rush to establish Draconian security controls may do very little to provide greater safety for Americans. They would, however, provide a great cost in terms of freedom.

M. Wolfe

Kids by nature sneak and lie. The wise parent can't rely on just what they're told. There's no question that, for the most part, talking to other parents allows you a control you couldn't have otherwise.

Andy Greene

I wouldn't say it's pressure it's more like a controlled nervousness. We've had a good season so far, but that doesn't mean anything to us right now. It's a whole different season.

Ed Golod

Just like email, instant messages can be used as evidence in a legal case. So it pays to make sure you have IM and P2P software under control in your IT environment.

Steve Shepanski

Just pure dominance on her part. She took control when we needed her to.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Robert Worthy

John is a very emotional player, and early on would get out of control. Not to the point of hurting the team but hurting himself. His production has matured the last two seasons because his maturity has seen a gradual increase.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

Richard P. Feynman

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard K. Morgan

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Richard Dawkins

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Richard Baxter

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.