Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Mark Ruffalo

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

Chris Kamara

Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words

Rob Potter

I think there was a lot of nervous people.

Brad Faxon

My track record after winning a tournament is abysmal, ... I'll be ready. I'll be nervous tomorrow. The win makes it great. But even if I didn't win, I think I would be just as juiced as I am right now.

Steve Box

My wife made these when we were over here waiting. It was kind of a last-minute idea. We were very nervous about it because we know how sacred the Oscars are. So we thought, what the heck.

John Shepperd

I think this is going to be a nervous week.

Carl Rogers

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Marilyn Monroe

To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.

Adam Duritz

Time and time again I can't please myself.

Suzanne Collins

Please feel free to take this personally.

Plautus

That least pleases us which is most urged on us.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

George Bernard Shaw

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brennan Manning

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Elif Safak

To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

Charles Bukowski

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.