Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Viswanathan Anand

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Jeff Morris

The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.

Michael Budman

We have an extremely scalable and robust e-commerce solution that allows us to take advantage of the global reach in support of the U.S. Olympic Team.

Joe King

We have an advantage over other communities. At the conceptual level, can we do something with the plant?

Dieter Zetsche

We have an advantage by announcing this turnaround plan that we are already in the midst of implementing. Every bit of it has been discussed and agreed upon by the unions. I have a very high degree of confidence we will be able to deliver on all parts of the turnaround plan.

Chuck Todd

We can't ignore initial Democrat polling, which shows Ken Lucas already ahead of Geoff Davis. And the GOP brand is getting killed right now in the Cincinnati media market, which might offset the automatic GOP advantage this district gives to Davis.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Mary Pipa

That was a tough one. (Montoursville) just took over the net. When they won the second set (7-5) I think it gave them a boost.

Johnny Podres

That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.

Terry Wilczek

That was a key play. That gave us a big lift and some momentum going into halftime. We needed to keep them out of the end zone.

Roelof Botha

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

Jimmy Smith

I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people.

Kyle Wilson

He is amazing. He'll be a handful to slow down.

Dan Fink

From a scientific standpoint, we are incredibly unique. There's only a handful of places, globally, that can do research like we do.

Donna Shalala

The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator.

Obie Schramm

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

Michael Rabasca

We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.

Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Rocco Baldelli

That's unbelievable in itself. I don't see how that could ever happen. It's hard enough trying to play one season and play every game. Only a handful of people do that every year. Rarely do they do it over and over again.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

William Shakespeare

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Peter Jackson

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.

Granth Sahib

Wherever You seat me, there I sit, O my Lord and Master; wherever You send me, there I go

Bhagavad Gita

Wherever is Krishna, the lord of yoga; and wherever is Arjuna, the archer; there will be everlasting prosperity, victory, happiness, and morality. This is my conviction.

H. Hart

We need the Lord in our lives. I get my strength from His word and His people.

Donnie Miller

We are taking it day by day and trusting in the Lord and that where we get our strength from.

Alexander MacLaren

Only he who can say, ''The Lord is my strength,'' can say, ''Of whom shall I be afraid?''

David Reutimann

He got in the wall. Thank the Lord I missed it.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Kent Conrad

Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Carl Sandburg

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Rick Thomas

It is a different world in that the sense of urgency and sense of need is so much heightened.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.