Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Twyla Tharp

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Winston Churchill

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

Winston Churchill

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Veronica Roth

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

William Halsey

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

W. Somerset Maugham

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Rosa DeLauro

Poor people are going to get the short end of the stick, despite all the public sympathy. That's a great irony.

W. S. Gilbert

He was a very robust man despite serving during horrendous times which increased pressures on him.

Rick Miller

He was a very happy man despite of a serious handicap and losing three wives,

Shannon Rouillard

The team really did respond in the second round, and I was proud of that. We had it going for a while, and Cathryn did an incredible job.

Amanda Tobin

There's just been an incredible response from passengers and staff.

David Janollari

Thursday isn't want it used to be back in the day when NBC had that incredible stronghold.

Jeremy Bates

One thing that stands out is that the better shot I hit, the better shot he hit. I was playing serve and volley, and he had incredible passing shots from the most ridiculous positions.

Michelle King

She is truly incredible when she listens to the radio and is able to sing the harmonies. I?m jealous of that ability.

Dominic Moore

He's an incredible player and it would be a big absence.

Beckie Scott

We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeling.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Peter Mandelson

It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe,

Gregory Kutz

They are really not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of mass disruption. They wouldn't necessarily have enough radiation to kill anyone, but they could require the shutdown of potentially large parts of the city.

Luis Diaz

There were so many of them and a large portion were already on the beach. We're just making sure no one drowns.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Peter Drucker

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Ice Cube

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. You have to get it out in the open. You have to talk about it.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.