Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Herzen

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

Mary Randolph

I think there was a lot of pride in it because of how it was built. The PTA had to furnish everything.

Reginald Knowles

The contractors will furnish the mix and place it. We will do the flagging, signing and trucking.

Tad Williams

Never make your home in a place -- make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it -- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Felix Sabates

I want to be the president of the NASCAR Hispanic Society. I'll even do it for free. I'll furnish my own airplane, my own helicopter. They won't have to give me anything.

Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Charles Dickens

At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.

Steve Armstrong

I have to furnish the setback and I don't like that.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Bette Davis

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

Arrigo Sacchi

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Bill Vaughan

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Frank Beamer

We're winning with a lot of Virginia kids, and I take pride in that.

Becki Newton

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Will Sheridan

We do take the Big 5 seriously. We take a lot of pride in these games.

Tony Womack

Just to play, for me, is special. I take pride in playing. I know I can compete.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.