Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverbs

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.

Chris McDonnell

I was a little disappointed in the position as I thought we could contend for the title. But we just didn't race like I thought we would.

Greg Anthony

Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.

Michael Leunig

If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.

Ricky Ray

If we want to be a team that is going to contend for the Grey Cup, we've got to get better offensively,

Ralph Connor

I'm seeing improvement in our times. We're working at getting better. We would like to defend our sectional championship and see if we can contend for a regional spot. Everybody is working very hard enough that we'll see improvement during the year.

Ben Wolcott

These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. One good thing is we don't have the heat and wind to contend with.

Mark Shapiro

It was acknowledging that we lacked upper-level prospects. That was a middle-of-the-road move, trying to contend and rebuild. But it was the last middle-of-the-road move that we made.

Sarah Patterson

Things didn't go perfectly for us tonight. But I think what we learned from tonight will be invaluable for us down the road and will serve to make us a better team. We had great team work, we had enthusiasm and we saw great leadership from a few of our veterans. We also saw the determination and enthusiasm from our freshmen that are going to help us contend in the future.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

Morris Gleitzman

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

Gary Bauer

I was deeply disappointed in Governor Bush's answer.

Chuck Gillingham

I thought she was extraordinarily courageous. At all times, she felt deeply about the victim in our case.

Busta Rhymes

I think a lot of people say that because they're not learning of the history of the music deeply enough.

Byron Hurt

It goes to show how deeply embedded homophobia and sexism are.

David Beatty

I think that's deeply disturbing. They've just got to do better.

Patrick Byrne

He was father to us all and he will be deeply missed.

Roy Williams

I am deeply saddened to say there was evidently a mistake.

Keke Palmer

I've never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Manny Acta

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Robin Hobb

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Veronica Roth

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

Mike Shannon

Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.

Little Richard

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

Lily Allen

Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose

Paul Merson

You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.

Paul Merson

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

Les Wexner

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don’t have any nose,

Jimmy Durante

My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.

Ciara

I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.

Mark Nation

His organs are in the process of being harvested.

Alphonsus Ezeoke

He never administered any medication. He never did. He never organized anything. There is no truth to any allegation. It will come out that all of these things are fabricated.

Richard Holbrooke

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

William S. Burroughs

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

Robert D. Kaplan

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Robert Caro

I trained myself to be organized,

Robert Mueller

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

William Blake

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

Jerry Colangelo

It's a sensitive deal. It'd be inappropriate for him to be out front.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

George H. W. Bush

This is a sensitive time for the budget.

Hugo Ch

This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Serena Williams

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

John O. Brennan

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.