Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Ed Ratledge

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Ken Whisenhunt

(Our) thinking was since they (Colts) had all of their time outs, taking knees would give the ball back to them. Besides, how often does Jerome fumble the ball? Almost never. It was just a crazy thing.

Greg Wilkinson

Our estimation is that he's under about 30 feet of snow right now which is going to make it almost impossible to find him with poles or regular things that you would use in an avalanche type of situation.

Chris Cooper

Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety.

Brian Hoffman

Our eyes almost popped out of our head.

Alan Greenspan

Our analysis of economic developments almost surely will need to deal in greater detail with balance sheet considerations than was the case in the earlier decades of the postwar period,

G. H. Hardy

People seem to want to hug New Orleans right now, and this is one way they can do it. It's almost like a patriotism toward the city.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Kohei Uchimura

I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Brian Jacques

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Brian Andreas

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Al Yankovic

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Daniel Handler

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Boethius

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Jamie Luner

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Arjun Rampal

I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Drew Brees

All of the products I take help me feel like I'm getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They're a big part of preparing and recovering each week.

Steve Shaw

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

Summer Sanders

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

Sebastian Stan

Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.

Seth Godin

Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

Socrates

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.