Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Francis de Sales

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.

Tom Peters

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Jason Portz

He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous.

Felipe Noguera

He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.

Richelle Mead

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

Richelle Mead

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.

William Shenstone

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

William Saroyan

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Will Durant

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

Robert Redford

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.