Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Norm MacDonald

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

Theodore Roosevelt

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

John Piper

The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

Paulo Coelho

You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Lucille Clifton

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Mike Gundy

We were dealt some adversity in the fourth quarter and we handled it very effectively in this game. We were able to drive the ball at the end. I wanted to go down there and score and not leave them any time on the clock.

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Ed Orgeron

We tried to turn it into a position to see if we can get our second team ready in case something happens to Brent. We had a battle there and we still have a long ways to go. The speed of our offense wasn't what we needed and what we expect to have with Brent.

Jim Wallis

We have to distinguish between people we can win over and those we can have a clear public conversation with. We are winning the battle on evangelical Christian college campuses; it's just under the radar. We can't give up on everybody. We have to take back the faith.

Sun Tzu

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites

Ted White

No one play costs you the game. I was pretty impressed that we were able to battle back and tie it up.

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

John Gall

I've seen enough lineup cards in my life to know that if you're not on it, you're not playing, ... I walked over there probably a little quicker than I usually do to check out the lineup card.

Dennis Ross

These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.

Curtis Arnold

These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.

Frank Thomas

I send him a list of the cards I need.

Butch Kinerney

This is a tremendous undertaking to try to get debit cards out with $2,000 on them to thousands of people. We've got plenty on hand, and we've got some more on order to make sure that everybody who is in the shelter down there that needs a card gets a card.

John Lyly

Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.

Neil Roberts

You have to play with the cards you're dealt.

Craig Nichoson

There is also a workable Wal-Mart nearby so Wal-Mart gift cards and cash donations are also accepted.

Linda Sherry

We see a shift in the industry toward cards that give something back, because industry research shows that reward cardholders make more purchases, tend to use their rewards cards exclusively and are less likely to jump ship for lower-rate cards.

Dick Advocaat

We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that,

Joe Torre

He had to have butterflies tonight. There's no question. But I thought he dealt with it really well.

Todd Bertuzzi

You know what, I've discussed all of this. I've dealt with a lot of it back in Vancouver. That's something I don't want and I don't need to drag over here for this tournament.

David Yalof

There are issues we have never dealt with before,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Dick Jauron

You have a veteran quarterback in Kelly, who is comfortable with his game. J.P. is a young quarterback and plays like one. ... He needs to be better for what he went though last year.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Linda Sherry

Even if you lose, the message will start to be heard.

Andy Stanley

Environments are the messages before the message.

Johnny Depp

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

Christopher Klaus

If we in the U.S. can't protect ourselves, what message does that send to the rest of the world?

Brett Favre

I called back probably 30 minutes after I got that message and got Scott's voice mail.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Felipe Alou

That could make it tough on him. It's a possibility.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

J. Horton

I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.

Jimmy Fletcher

It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end.

Michael Owen Bruce

It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Ridley Scott

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.