Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Goodson

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

Sandra Navarro

His days of dictatorship are over. Justice will now prevail.

John Whisenant

The doctors OK'd her to start practice two days ago. She was limited. She's very rusty, missing easy shots and it's frustrating her because she's lost her sharpness. How quickly she gets it back, we don't know.

Brian Butch

It shouldn't have been that hard. We practiced four days (against) it. We've seen it. We played them once before with it. It was a lack of execution.

Patrick Norman

Our music is something you have to hear. It's always difficult to describe. It's with our own slant, but it's rock 'n' roll nonetheless.

Grant Williamson

Investors are saying 2006 is going to be a very difficult year for retail.

Gordon Kettle

In today's world, the large divorce rate does play a part. There are other factors, and whatever the single parenthood cause, it is difficult for a single parent.

Chuck D.

In the old days, I used to tour nine months of the year. With travel being so difficult these days, I've become very selective about where we go and how often we play.

Kofi Annan

In terms of logistics, the difficult terrain makes this one of most challenging relief operations ever undertaken, ... Winter is approaching fast, and temperatures are dropping.

Tom Izzo

If you're always going 11-0 or 12-0 in the preseason, you can get 20 wins easier. If you're playing other people, it's a lot more difficult to do that. I'm proud that we did it the hard way. When you do that, your kids get mentally tougher.

Brian Cross

In my mind, it's a goal-line offense, and they run it in the middle of the field. It can be very difficult to stop at times.

Michaela Dorfmeister

In my last season, I make history in every race. I'm so happy. It was difficult today. Sometimes it was icy, sometimes it very bumpy. The snow was very fast. It was difficult to find my timing.

Dave Cooper

In 2006 it's a difficult proposition to launch a site and get traffic. You can spend money on marketing or go through acquisitions.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Pat Murphy

They're always looking to throw it downfield. We've got to get them to punt and get some turnovers.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

John Fowles

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

Maya Angelou

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

Matt Kenseth

I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.

Maya Angelou

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Maya Angelou

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.

Marilynne Robinson

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

Mary Ellen Chase

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Laini Taylor

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alison Brie

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Alicia Keys

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Alice Sebold

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

Alice Meynell

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Miller

It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

Alice Miller

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

Alice Munro

As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go." "Passion

Alice Eve

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.