Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

In a few months, I will, God willing, enter my 81st year of my life, and in many ways the last few months have been some of the most disturbing of all,

Don Link

The high murder rate in Oakland has been one of the most disturbing trends.

Sara Collins

These findings paint a disturbing picture of the day-to-day impact of being uninsured on the physical as well as financial health of millions of Americans.

Peter Galvin

This is in keeping with a very disturbing trend of weakening protections for wildlife and environmental quality at the political level in Washington.

G. H. Hardy

It's just very disturbing that someone would do such a thing to an individual.

Bruce White

They're pulling me over for loud music, and they were the ones disturbing the peace.

Terry Jenkins

When we have to say we can't in a way ... they prefer, or maybe not at all, it's a very disturbing situation.

Eric Melloul

We're seeing more and more very shocking price increases, and that is somewhat of a disturbing trend. Time will tell how right analysts are.

David Goyer

Our show is meant to be disturbing and genuinely scary, because I think if something like this did happen, it would be disturbing and scary.

Terri Johnson

He just wouldn't study. Then he'd get these failing grades, and that would further hurt his self-esteem.

Richard Ford

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Saint Augustine

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Twyla Tharp

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

Brian Ashton

I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Marty Nemko

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

Phil Jackson

Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.

Tim Parmeter

I also thought we did a good job of finding him. He really got going, and we did a good job of recognizing that.

Caron Butler

I think it's just that my teammates are getting used to me and I'm getting used to them. Offensively, I'm just trying to stay in a good rhythm and a good flow. My teammates are doing a good job finding me in a rhythm, and I'm just doing what I know how to do.

Nancy Clark

It is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.

David McCandless

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

Alex Kapranos

We swap around instruments from time to time and try other variations. The real trick to making a good record is finding out the things that aren't good and getting rid of them.

William Wycherley

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Sarah Dessen

I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

Willem Dafoe

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

Orlando Cabrera

These are complicated questions that require complicated answers. It's going to take some time.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Richie Sexson

It's nice, especially in this ballpark, because there were a lot of questions about whether I could do it here.

Mark Koenig

It was not something our competitors did. It was different, so we got questions about it.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Pat Davis

They just got us with the big play. Right now, we're down to zero returning starters, so we're just trying to get better every week.

Tracy Kidder

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Jorge Cantu

I didn't want to risk it. I'm sure it would have been a risk if I was to keep playing. Let it heal. ...I'll be back.

Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Tullian Tchividjian

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Robert Redford

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

Will Smith

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

Wayne Gretzky

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.

Sarah Dessen

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Waylon Jennings

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.