Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gus Cooper

We tried to figure out how we were going to pay for it, ... The Dunedin Country Club Foundation has come up with $15,000, which will go toward the bridge. That leaves $71,000. So how do you fund that?

Jack Porter

I hope the end result is the B Hill is restored and the Bisbee High School Lettermen Club can take over the maintenance.

Brian Smith

I love to see Tony doing so well at Leeds because, when I was coaching in England, and particularly during my time at Hull, they were always the team everyone hated, ... The perception was of Leeds being the millionaire club who never quite did it.

Dee Bridgewater

The first time I saw him perform was at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1994 and I cried, and everyone in the club cried. I'm fascinated by his phrasing. He's been an inspiration to a lot of people.

Bob Mould

The club night was an extension of making the record. We've written it over the past couple years, but we just need to tighten up the sounds a little bit.

David Beckham

The club have said they want to talk to me about signing a new deal and I am very happy to do that,

David Beckham

The club have already expressed their feelings in wanting me to stay a few more years. I want to stay at Real Madrid -- but we'll see.

Steve Sherman

This is a confidential matter between the club and Mr. Bott,

Claudio Reyna

It'll be nice to represent the club at the World Cup and it's just nice to know your future too, and that the manager knows that I'd like to stay here. I like where the club's going and it's a great place to play your football. There's really nowhere else I'd like to go.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Janet Sacavage

I don't think I had any friends whose mother's worked.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Bryan Jones

This is my very first musical. I heard about it and it sounded fun so my friend John and I auditioned. I was surprised that I got the lead.

Jose Maria

Syria has been and will be a friend of Spain. It will not be the target of any war actions,

St. John

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Tallia Cahoon

The ore started giving out. That's when we left.

Jake Peavy

The orthopedics said they were not good giving shots in the mouth.

O. Singh

We will be giving visas from January and the Pakistani consulate in Mumbai will also be functioning by that time,

Larry Beets

This was sort of like our Cinderella, to come through here 1-0 and hold them after the pounding they've been giving to people. But you give credit. We got the pitches, and we made the plays defensively.

Thomas a Kempis

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Orson Scott Card

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Robert Kiyosaki

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

Tom Peters

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Alex Ebert

I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.

Alex Ebert

My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.

Alcaeus

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Aldo Leopold

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

Aldous Huxley

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....

Aldous Huxley

Pain was a fascinating horror

Aldous Huxley

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

Marilyn French

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

Nicole Kidman

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

Nicole Kidman

I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.

Chuck Mulloy

all we know for sure is that the investigation is continuing.

Jim Manley

Not sure if we can get it done this week.

Vicki Phillips

I want to make sure we do all we can to make sure the wetlands are preserved,

Ann Marshall

I want to make sure I have one of these.

Gerald Myers

The N.C.A.A. wanted to make sure that they had to be qualified, and they couldn't be recruited.

Ron Haskins

It should be something that we need to be watching carefully. You just need to make sure it's being done fairly.

Steve Scott

It's mystifying; it's disappointing. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Patricia McKinney

That really put me on my toes, put me on my toes to make sure that I did.

Don Schmidt

It's nice. I'm not so sure it's worth the money.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Jim Butcher

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

Jessica Alba

There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

Irvin S. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

Iris Murdoch

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Ida B. Wells

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Ida B. Wells

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.