Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Marcus Pollard

Joey had an excellent game. He really threw some good balls. When you start playing with confidence, you can do that.

Roosevelt Kiser

Josh is our leader and everything, but we had all our confidence in Chris. We knew as a offense we were going to win this game because we knew the defense was going to play until the end.

Joe DeSantis

Job shows us every day in practice that he can make his free throws. He's a freshman but we have confidence in him when he goes to the line.

Eddie Johnson

I think it's a group where we can have a lot of success. I think we can go in with great confidence and match up really well.

Gina Martin

I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.

Cheryl Buffo

I actually wanted her on the line. There were three players I wanted on the line and she was one of them. I had confidence in her. She stepped up and made the free-throws.

Rashad Janahi

I also wish to place on record my gratitude to our shareholders and investors for the trust they have vested in us which gives us the confidence to pursue our growth-oriented investment strategy.

Paul Wiedeman

He was able to get some easy baskets for us. He had offensive rebounds for put-back. He gained a lot of confidence for us in that game.

Frank Tyger

Keeping your fears to yourself is a form of courage

Oscar Wilde

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to

Chris Coleman

He's got courage. Most people would use a disability as a reason to not do what they love. But not Wade. He's one of a kind. And his courage gives me courage.

Steve Chronister

I thought we played with a lot of courage in the second half. We played a lot better, but Lynnwood never let up.

Socrates

We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.

Edgar Guest

There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is training of a nobler kind / And that's the education of the heart. / Lessons that are most difficult to give / Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We must have the courage to be happy

Gary Ruskin

He's part of it, and he doesn't have the courage to stand up to do anything about it.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.

William Wordsworth

Nature's old felicities.

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood