Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Greenfield

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Eduardo Najera

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we're finally learning how to make big plays down the stretch.

Pat Hill

getting a lot of big payday games in big venues, which is great for those programs. I think that has defeated the purpose for us, anyway, of getting really high-profile games, even though they're on the road.

George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

George H. W. Bush

We need more troops to defeat 'The Illusion of Failure' in Iraq....29 million should do it.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Sean Connors

We have been able to defeat some teams that were troublesome for us last year,

Kelly Lamrock

We will defeat this government for one simple reason - we can do better and New Brunswick can't wait.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Julie Rochman

We don't want the government displacing us or being in our way.

Seijiro Takeshita

The private sector revival is not as strong as the government would like it to be.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Dave Morin

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Thomas Eakins

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Robert Moog

Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

Robert J. Shiller

Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that in economics departments. The same must be true to some extent in other departments.

Robert Greene

I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.

Robert Atkins

It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.