Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Beth Riesgraf

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Bernard Barton

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

Aron Ralston

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Bill Vaughan

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Ron Wilson

That was huge, to respond to some adversity. We're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road, and it's great for our confidence, to be able to win that kind of game.

James Fleming

That was the best second half I've seen us play ... We scored only three points in the first half, and came back to score 22 in the second. I was impressed with the sense of urgency in the face of adversity with which we played.

Dan Cleary

We have the composure and leadership in here to know what we have to do. It's a little bit of adversity that we have to face, we just have to get through it.

Frank Schade

We have a lot of kids back. What they accomplished this year with 14 wins was far, far better than I had ever dreamed. I thought they worked through some adversity. Most games we went into I thought we were the underdog, and I was very pleased with how they handled themselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

William Gibson

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

Paul Bowles

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

William Cowper

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.

Brad Brownell

We've kind of been beneath the radar all year. People haven't talked about us that much.

Paul Di Filippo

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

David Jackson

Most Americans think agricultural work is beneath them.

Xinhua Agency

Waves of the explosion pushed down the temple, and some people were buried beneath the debris.

George Williams

I was getting a piece of plastic and there was a young cottonmouth beneath it,

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Ken Bacon

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Anne Wilson Schaef

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Nina Easton

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Lynn Ford

The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.

Bette Davis

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire

Antoine Rivarol

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Bertrand Russell

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

Dave Bailey

That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Matt Sylvester

We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.

Rick Ruffin

We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.

Malala Yousafzai

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Clark Haggans

We've knocked down seven of the eight. We just have one more to go.

Marvin Harrison

I was trying to get up slowly so I wouldn't get knocked in the head, ... and I got up and ran.

Clifton Lee

I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.

Mack Brown

I wish he had not played as a freshman. He was never 100 percent after he got knocked out. He played but not as much as he wanted to.

Steve Kinser

I'm all right. It knocked the top down and I got trapped in the car. That's about it.

Scooter Dunn

He knocked the stitches out of it over at practice.

Shannon Brown

I don't know what it is. I wish I did, and if I did he wouldn't do it. He just knocked shots down.

Larry Coker

From my understanding, they were knocked unconscious with a helmet.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Sandra Williams

We're uniting together to reach out into the community.

Bruce Teitelbaum

We have not received any offer. They know how to reach us.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Carrie Brownstein

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Carrie Fisher

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carl Safina

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Rogers

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Bethenny Frankel

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

Bethany Hamilton

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to God for help and I'm excited to share that.

Benjamin Rush

Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

Ashton Kutcher

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.