Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

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.

Clint Hurdle

More can be learned from adversity than when everything good happens. They realize they were short in areas, went down to (Class AAA) Colorado Springs, addressed the shortcomings and came back.

Mike Cranston

I was real proud of the kids. We had some adversity at the end of the season, with injuries, and our guys fought through it.

Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Esther Hicks

When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.

Ezra Taft Benson

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Jimmy Rollins

This is definitely what you play for. Everybody knows it's football season, but when you have a race like this, it's hard to turn around from it.

Jim Smith

This is definitely what we anticipated all along. It just took a little longer than we expected. We're elated that the commissioners saw the wisdom of the entire plan and voted accordingly.

Jeff Gordon

This is definitely the smoothest that I've ever seen this place. I'm still not sure what the race is going to be like, but I think it's going to be good because the track is just really, really fast right now.

Daniel Wilson

This is definitely the right time to get started.

Michael McGuire

This is definitely the result of market demand.

E. O. Wilson

This is definitely the most talented, smartest and mature team I've been on since I've been here.

Daron Rahlves

This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.

Dave Miller

This is not the end. It's going to different next time. I don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to definitely be different. We're going to play better.

Dave Freer

I have been known to do that, it just wasn't happening there.

John Cain

Im sure there was going to be another rent increase, ... Its been happening to everyone down here.

Gray Davis

The odds of something happening are very remote.

Mike Rann

It's very much a symbol of what's happening in South Australia,

Todd Bertuzzi

It just keeps on happening and happening. Just when I see the light at the end of the tunnel, something else appears. Those are the shoes I have to walk in every day.

Eugene Opperman

It is very peculiar that this type of thing should still be happening in this day and age.

Jodi Picoult

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

Larry Potts

We love this town. There's so much music happening here, when you think about it.

John Rhys-Davies

There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.