Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Chris Duhon

We were able to execute on the offensive end. We know this team is going to (have to) overcome a lot of adversity throughout the year, and we showed that tonight.

James E. Faust

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

James E. Faust

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Gao Xingjian

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a testing of character adversity is.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Joey Tribbiani

Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,

Joe Cunningham

Cody, he's the type of guy, no matter what, he's going to work his rear end off. He wanted to get off to a good start and might have been trying a little too hard.

Brian Divelbliss

Devin does a good job communicating and Joey is really fast, really quick. Kyle is just a good presence in the goal. We have options and we're starting all three to see what they can do. They're all good.

David Steele

Development and good conservation planning are not mutually exclusive.

Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

African Proverb

To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria

Kenny Miller

We are very happy with the start to our home campaign, but we have a lot of work to do and get better as a team.

Trent Green

We weren't really happy about it. But we did our job. We focused, and we have to be happy about that. The team took a positive approach.

Colley Cibber

The happy have whole days,

Shawn French

We were just happy to get out of there with a much needed victory.

Robert A. Heinlein

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else....

Thomas Merton

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Erik Zabel

The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Bradley Morgan

The reason I kept this season going is because I've got 10 seniors who've been playing since the seventh grade,

Joe Girardi

Too many 2-0 counts. But he kept us in the game.

Jason Grilli

My wife (Danielle) is my rock and has kept me mentally strong.

Carlos Diaz

My wife and I were so protective of him because of the acquittal, ... I was always on top of him. That night, I kept looking out the door, making sure he was there.

S. Hughes

He had promised to come to us and, thankfully, he kept his word.

Joe Paterno

I looked at my watch 12:30, quarter to one. I kept saying to myself, 'When are we going to get this thing over?

H. Hart

I never stopped. I just kept on wrestling.

Joel Pineiro

I kept trying to make my pitches, but I kept elevating the ball. That's his sweet spot.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Busy Philipps

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Barry Zito

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Demarcus Ware

I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Craig Ferguson

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Viktor Yushchenko

Enough arguing: There is enough work for everybody.

Willie Randolph

Even if he comes back, he's going to have to work his way back in there. ... There's no rush. That's for sure.

David McCullough

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.