Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Ronald Reagan

If you think you can - you can!

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Byron Scott

He just doesn't seem real sure of what he's doing out there right now. Again, it goes back to repetition and knowing how to run our offense. . . . I can't wait for Speedy to get back.

Willie Randolph

He'll be fine. He's a good kid. Goes about his business. He's got a lot of teammates who can take him under their wing and I'm sure they'll do that.

Brentson Buckner

He knows what to do and he goes out and plays hard, and you can't teach a person to play hard. You can teach them technique, help them get stronger, help them get faster. But playing hard, that comes from inside.

Ozzie Guillen

He reminds me of Greg Maddux. He goes out, throws 200-plus innings and throws as quick as he can.

Winston Justice

Happy with what I did and happy it's over. We'll just have to see where it goes from here.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

John Moffitt

We're only-one third of the way through our journey.

Louise Young

I don't know where her life journey has taken her since 1989. She never did anything anti-gay. But you never know where people go in the political spectrum over the years.

Richard Paul Evans

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

Richard Paul Evans

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

Tyler Perry

When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.

Robert Duvall

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.

Sara Paretsky

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

Wallace Stevens

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Daniel Logan

I love being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Katrina Kaif

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

Kate Bush

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Lucy Punch

What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It's a stroll, but if you walk in L.A., it's a hike.

Rita Ora

When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Kim Cattrall

I like movies I can relate to.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Maya Beiser

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Jack Johnson

We're all related. We're all a family.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Rob Reiner

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Richard Dawkins

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also successful otherwise they would not be common. The world therefore tends to become populated by mutually compatible sets of successful replicators, replicators that get on well together

Rebecca West

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Russell Crowe

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

Ron Conway

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

James Blake

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Dana Rohrabacher

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

Tim Henman

It was much better today, in terms of the result,

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

James Bell

If I find any one of you violating the terms of this sentence, I'm going to put you in jail,

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Chelsea Leyland

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.