Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Candice S. Miller

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

Henry David Thoreau

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

Jeremy Collier

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Gretel Ehrlich

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Gregory David Roberts

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Ben Crenshaw

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Phil Boyer

Enough is enough. What does one mile around his house and 1,500 feet do anyway? It is just nonsense.

Andrew Pyper

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Ann Richards

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Anjem Choudary

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

Anita Shreve

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Andrew Wyeth

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Don Edwards

Our English for Speakers of Other Languages wait list averages about 400 and we update it once a month. In our pre-GED program, we get 80-100 applications per month throughout the year. People can be on the wait list for too long. We don't have enough to meet the demand.

P. Herbert

I volunteered for it; I wanted to help out any way I could. Last year we averaged 4.8 on punt returns and 19.1 on kickoffs. That's horrible. But we have worked hard on it this year, and Johnny and I are ready to go. There are no excuses this year.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Gary Jones

The way you measure improvement in a player is different with each guy. When we (managers, organization officials) look at stats we see different things than the average fan. A player might hit .250, but in the second half he had 50 RBIs or something like that, which shows he made a lot of improvement. That's how we have to look at things.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Peter Gould

We are very excited to partner with HMC to launch Great Hotels Rewards. Hotels that operate loyalty and frequency programs, which create value, recognition and rewards for consumers, enjoy not only a rise in their repeat business but also an increase in their average daily rate. Our research indicates that guests who participate in frequency programs tend not to be as price sensitive because of the value and recognition they receive. HMC has developed a product that will benefit many hotels and hotel groups like ours.

Jimmie Lee

We did see a drop in our DRAM average selling prices during the December quarter. This hurt the revenue line.

Jeremy Gray

What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone's gray matter. The study participants were people with jobs and families. They just meditated on average 40 minutes each day, you don't have to be a monk.

Johnny Damon

To me, he looks like the player he was in Oakland. He's hitting for average and power. It's great to see because he can carry a team when he's on like that.