Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Hudgens

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.

Virginia Woolf

The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

Zhuangzi

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly...

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Russ Miller

The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary.

Gene Wilder

I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.

Malcolm X

I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.

Lynn Redgrave

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Richard Davidson

Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

Woodrow Wilson

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

William J. Clinton

I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That's what's numbing - if you think you can't change, you can't be better. And I didn't like that.

William J. Clinton

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

William J. Clinton

I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.

Courtney Love

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

Craig Biggio

I think it was more their destiny than ours.

William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

Triple H

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

Woodrow Wilson

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

William Shatner

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Richard M. Nixon

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

Vance Havner

Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

Walid Jumblatt

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.