Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Cheryl Strayed

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Bernhard Schlink

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Tim Ryan

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

Victor LaValle

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Charles Dickens

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Alan Perlis

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Alan Paton

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Alan Alda

Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things

Chogyam Trungpa

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Edith Wharton

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Audrey Hepburn

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Bill Nighy

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

Allan McArtor

It's no secret that San Francisco is delighted to entertain any of these carriers. Once they move there and get the maintenance and the ticket counters and ground handling, it's very difficult to get that route back.

Lyall Gorman

They are excited and delighted to be part of the Mariners and their involvement is just the start for us.

Tamsin Greig

I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.

Muggsy Bogues

They're ecstatic, delighted that I'm back on the stage, so to speak.

David Reed

Delighted and where I want to be for London.

Virender Sehwag

It was tough captaining the team as I'd missed the last Test match due to fever, but I'm delighted at leading India to a win.

Jim Rhodes

I've been to the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and we were delighted that things worked out so we could be here this weekend.

S. Hughes

I've been delighted with Shefki and the level of his performance on Wednesday night was shown in the way the fans reacted to him at the end,

Bryan Robson

The way he's done his job is very good. This is the reward for that and I'm delighted he's signed.

Gordie Kerkman

A lot of people don't realize what a leader he is. He is more than deserving to be on the list. He's been a big part of our success in several capacities.

Ron Stewart

They're very deserving of it, there's not any question that they're extremely talented and well-coached.

Jimmy Just

They're very deserving kids, they work hard and they have the skills. This may open up some options for them down the road.

Steve Spurrier

There were some players the prior staff signed that we didn't think would ever contribute, ... We thought some walk-ons were more deserving and had worked hard to earn scholarships.

Nikola Tesla

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Andrew Glassman

Our show is all about finding the most deserving people and making good things happen for them. I think ('Three Wishes') is going to be a quality show that really makes a difference in people's lives.

Jack Lynch

It was an excellent ceremony. I think it was very deserving of the people who gave their lives.

Eddie Jordan

Is he deserving of an all-star? He might be a little tardy in his production, but maybe he does, yeah.

O. Henry

This couldn't have happened to a more deserving young man.

Ruth Walsh

We want people to not just sit at the dinner and not be able to participate. We want people to get up and have fun.

Alan King

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Kazuo Ishiguro

Until then, I was knocking on doors. Afterward, my wife and I started to get a different kind of dinner invitation altogether.

Nate Corddry

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

Fred Miller

We're still going to go out there and play and we're going to work together. We're still going to go out on our regular nights and have dinner together as an offensive line and as a unit.

Earl Derr Biggers

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Ronnie Vannucci

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

Hayden Fry

There were times that Ronnie and I would go out for dinner after we got done practicing, and we'd talk about everything from our families to what we can do to become better coaches. He was a tremendous person, a super great guy and a heck of a coach.

Marc Danley

They're more than customers; they are like friends and family. We've even had some second generations come in to have their rehearsal dinners here, the same place their parents had theirs.

Benjamin E. Mays

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

T. J. Miller

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

Andy Kopplin

What this information shows, I think, is this was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.

Tommy Thompson

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Thomas Graham

We were in a 16-acre disaster zone that went for 10 or 12 blocks,

Tom Ridge

The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure.

Condoleezza Rice

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Yasser Arafat

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish the initiative.

Richard Ellis

They see the initiative process, quite rightly, as something that suits their needs very well.

George Robertson

This initiative is quite simply historic, and even revolutionary,

Cliff Nellis

This is an initiative of the people, and a lot of times the politicians don't want to do the will of the people.

Graham Nash

The US presents a new initiative for our team

Piero Fassino

Everything has to be done, and every initiative must be put into play to save these two young women,

Brian Johnson

We had people at the luau tell us this initiative was long overdue.

George Zimmer

There's much more to differentiation. That will be a large initiative next year.

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Lorraine Bracco

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Mike Heffernan

We're in significantly better shape than we were last year,

Gene Stephenson

We're in last place now in the league. Twenty-nine years we've never been in this situation in this league at 2-6, I know that. Right now, we're just not very good.

Bill Trumbo

We're in a much-improved spot from a year ago. At this point last season, we were 0-4.

William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

Shawan Robinson

When you think of those overtime games, some of the others that were ours to win going into the last minute or so, I know ? we all know ? it would a be a different season if we had him.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

William Levada

It's not surprising that there's been no response

Rob Gorman

I've never seen a response like this. I'm really amazed.

Robert Menendez

You would have thought we had a picture-perfect response to Katrina,

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Bill Daly

The responses we are getting in-market have been very strong, virtually without exception.

Mike Williams

The response has been phenomenal. We are totally in awe, and proud.

David Blunkett

Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview.

Don Morrow

Variety selection is most important of all factors.

Bergen Evans

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Dion Harris

We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win.

Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Chris Cannon

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

Chief Seattle

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Edward Gibbon

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

Edward Gibbon

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

Edith Sitwell

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

Edith Sitwell

the great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...

David Hockney

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

David Hume

Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Carol Davis

They've really been tremendous with everything -- they just do so much for us,

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.

Kapil Sibal

If the tsunami was coming, it would have come by now,

Eugene Tempel

The tsunami was on a completely different scale,

Bob Scott

It was like a tsunami for which you had warning.