Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Winston Churchill

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Winston Churchill

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Winston Churchill

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Rufus Jones

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Byron Scott

I hope not. We've had adversity all year long. We just have to learn how to handle it.

Kurt Simon

I'm just proud of our kids to hang in there and keep their composure through all that adversity. We lost it for a little bit there in the fourth, but kept believing and kept working. That says a lot about our kids. This is two weeks in a row where it came down to the last second and we got it done.

E. B. White

I know the benefits of being up in the press box. You see an awful lot more and it's not as chaotic. But the emotion of the game, it's real and you get to look eyeball to eyeball with your players and you get to share the emotion of the game. You get to communicate when there's adversity and you help them through it. I had a blast today.

Jonathan Swift

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Ken Trump

Kids are much more tech savvy than many adults anyway. The challenge is how do we narrow the gap between the two.

Sena Lund

I think it's a decent choice, and with the challenges Merck faces, they needed someone who knows the company and knows the environment,

Doug Hattaway

He is trying to define his own vision for all the voters, and that can be a tough challenge for a sitting vice president. In a way the vice president actually has more work to do in introducing himself.

Maajid Nawaz

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Bill Doba

He's a good receiver. He's tall (6-3), 210 pounds and runs well. It will be a real challenge for our defense.

Antoine Winfield

He's a leader out there on the field. His team is going to go how he goes. If he's having a good game, they're high and he's going to pack the house there every night. He's a real challenge for us.

Paul Whitworth

He saw love as a radical challenge to the identity of men and women, ... His popularity on the screen is no accident: His take on sexuality, gender and love seems to speak to the way we see ourselves at the end of the 20th century.

Spencer Mayfield

He's a weapon. As the season went on, we started to do more and more things for him. We had to be convinced this wasn't a fad. But without him we wouldn't have 15 wins or be in a position to challenge Mount Vernon.

Tom Swan

I think it shows that a challenge would be very difficult, but very doable.

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

Jason King

In the CI market, you have to watch out for family history. Conditions such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and back pain may also mean you are looking at a full exclusion of the condition, plus any related conditions.

Claire Tomalin

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Jeff Clarke

If you drew it on paper, in a perfect world, this is how it would be drawn. Perfect weather, perfect conditions and really big waves.

Harvey Rosenblum

If you look at the record, at how the U.S. has weathered shocks, we have a very, very resilient economy. Initial conditions matter.

John Huston

I like when scoring conditions are good and the weather's good,

Yevgeny Primakov

I have to study this information...the conditions of the sanctions, what they are about,

Jeremy Taylor

The conditions were terrible, I thought that our guys played well in the second half though.

Jamie Watson

The conditions tonight obviously were a big factor for Houston. They're a team that does a lot of short passing. When you have the wet conditions it makes it harder for them to play their style.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Fran Maier

We take these things extremely seriously. We always have, we do now. That's all we can say considering that these things are under litigation.

Bob Ulrich

We are extremely pleased with our overall results for fiscal 2001, particularly the strength of our fourth quarter,

Jason Kreis

It is probably the most bittersweet moment in my life to be honest. I am proud of this one, but I am extremely disappointed in our result.

Susanne Bier

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

William Carey

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Jules Verne

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

O. Henry

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

Carol Kennedy

It was just so wonderful to go down there and be of some help.

Mary Oliver

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...

Marcus Aurelius

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Lionel Ferbos

I've had a wonderful life with music,

Paul Theroux

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.