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.

Malik Rose

It was tough for me sitting next to him and hearing (the fans), so, I can imagine what it was like for him. It's like somebody two feet tall just punching you and punching you, and you can't hit them back. It's so frustrating, but Al never let it bother him. Some days were better than others, but he never complained about it. It was just the price of fame.

Mose Allison

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

Darrell Butler

Maybe the long inning bothered him, maybe he got tired. But no excuses, when you're up 20 runs, you throw strikes, he knows that. But he was very good in the early part of the game, so I'm not sure what happened. I liked his slider, it looked very sharp and his fastball was good.

John Hawkes

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

Georges Laraque

It does bother me. You see my stats and the zero looks bad. A lot of the other tough guys have at least scored a goal.

Don Warren

If it brings more jobs to town, it's alright. It doesn't bother me any. Everybody will get used to it.

Jamal Lewis

If he's getting more carries or if he's getting more time, it doesn't bother me because I've proven what I can do. The only thing that does is just keep me fresher and keep me going.

Dean Wilson

I'd rather be known as the guy that won a tournament than the guy that played with Annika. It doesn't bother me, but I guess I have to do something. I have to win.

Annie Potts

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

Susanna Kearsley

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Richard Eaton

Even being up on ladders and dealing with big wood is fraught with more peril than people realize.

Christian Sachs

First there were doubts about the security of the stadiums and at present we are dealing with human trafficking, forced prostitution and right-wing extremism.

Chelan Simmons

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Wayne Chrebet

It's just a weird thing you don't want to accept. I've had a lot of time at home with my kids and that's been great. It's something I've always looked forward to. The rest is dealing with not having this in my life anymore.

Terry McMillan

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

Robert Poole

It's a virtual organization. Most of our employees work out of their home offices. That's our way of dealing with traffic in Los Angeles.

George H. W. Bush

We are dealing with our friends to figure out how to deal with this flawed election.

Will Gluck

I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like real-people things.

Petter Solberg

What can we do? Loeb just keeps taking every stage from us and no-one can keep up.

Mike Williams

He pushes me a lot. That's what keeps me going. I like when he pushes me. It shows me I can do anything I put my mind to.

Ted Jr.

He's meant everything to me. That's Pops. He keeps me based.

Keith Richardson

He keeps switching the names of the owners on the deed,

Hank Haney

He just keeps getting better and better and better. I don't think there's a 'there' there.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

will.i.am

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Mark Clifford

We scored some points; our offense competed better (than last week).

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Lance Armstrong

There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,

Ed Parkinson

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.