Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jeff Horner

I think this shows how we've been able to fight through adversity. The way this team has persevered has been something else.

Lord Byron

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth

Mark Twain

There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.

Mickey Andrews

How you handle adversity is extremely important. Our problem during this process has been we have not had the total depth that we've had in a lot of years past.

Ken Hiskes

He was significantly better this year. And I don't think the injury hurt him because it made him focus so much on the physical training that he was a lot stronger this year. And just working through that adversity made him a better player.

Shi Yinhong

The Chinese people have showed more interest in international situation as a result of China's ascending status and fast economic growth.

Max Heindel

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.

Hadi Jawad

People should be voting him out of office. He's bad for our air, bad for our children, bad for our country. He's ascending in the Republican Party as a power broker.

Joey Harrington

I look forward to joining the Miami Dolphins whenever I am released or a trade is completed. The Dolphins are an ascending team with great coaching and I can't wait to get started.

Sue Kidd

She set the bar high for all of us, and I can't imagine ascending to her lofty heights.

Saskya Pandita

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Robert Jordan

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Lauren Dougherty

His hair is more naturally sun-kissed, and he has a little less of a golden tan.

W. Tozer

I love it when you win in two, and I hate it if you go to the golden goal.

Anthony Cummings

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

James Cash Penney

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

James Cash Penney

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

Robin Chhabra

It is a competitive threat to other players like William Hill and Rank, but it's only mildly negative for them.

Clifford Heinzer

In 2001 at this time of year, those hills would have been a sea of pink and white.

Gail Devers

I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet.

Lisa Perry

A long time ago, the major mode of transportation was the horse. But when Apache were walking in the hills or mountains, this would protect their toes from rocks and cactus.

Rand Paul

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Keith Carradine

I was actually filming in Atlanta when I got a call from Walter Hill saying, "Well, it could be your turn to play Hickok." I said, "Oh, well, great!" He said, "What's your hair look like?" I said, "Well, it's short, Walter, but... I've still got that wig!" . He said, "Well, bring it!"

Larry Clark

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

John Hiatt

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

John McNeil

It's the 'Mansion on the Island' now. You didn't realize how big that hill was until the hill was gone.

Bob McDonald

He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whatever it took to meet his goal.

Kate Bosworth

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

George Speight

I think some people are trying to do me over ... and they're going to meet with some very stiff resistance.

Mike Bohn

I'd like the players to have the opportunity to meet him before the game.

Tony Fabrizio

I don't know that the rocky start is as important as what people see at the end of the day. The real rubber meets the road when they see what their expectations were versus what they actually get.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Mark Twain

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

George Mason

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Nicholas Sparks

Being with him was like toast and butter from the very beginning.

Margaret Atwood

Toast is me. I am toast.

Joanne Harris

I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

Erma Bombeck

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

Tim Cook

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.