Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brett Favre

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Things are calming, ... But that doesn't mean it won't restart.

Dan Hawkins

The whole streak thing doesn't mean a lot to me, but when you win three in a row on the islands, that's impressive.

Brian Baird

The whole roof was ablaze within 10 minutes of the first sign of smoke. I mean it was gone.

Rick Jones

The work that these subcommittees have done is not being disregarded. Just because visioning subcommittee members were not (selected) does not mean the subcommittees are getting ignored.

Steve Fossett

This is not just another round-the-world attempt; we mean to succeed this time. That's a tall order.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Shay Doron

You would think that little number (No. 2 seed in the region) would mean something, wouldn't you?