Famous Quotes & Sayings

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Francis Ford Coppola

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Jeremy Bloom

My whole mentality was similar to the Tiger Woods approach. I had a lot of opportunities to jump in training and competition. I focused only on improving these skills. Adversity and racing gave me confidence to get through it.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Jim Ratcliffe

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

Rick Anderson

The other day, I brought up (video of) Silva this year and Silva last year. And he's night and day with his delivery.

Kristen Newlin

We know she likes to go to her right, so it was my job to sit on her right, and we brought the double-team from the left.

Susan Reynolds

One of the little girls brought her tooth money from the tooth fairy. So its making, for her, a large sacrifice. It meant enough to her to give up her tooth fairy money to help these little babies.

Graeme Souness

I don't think I've done anything wrong. I know that I've brought some very good players to this football club and I know that we've been desperately unlucky in terms of injuries, but I'm sticking at it.

Dale Jackson

He worked at a local refinery and was on the rescue team there, ... He brought with him a lot of knowledge.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Melissa Bank

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

Richard Valdez

Most of them aren't in shape at all at the beginning.

Clint Hurdle

Mesa's shape is not an issue, never has been.

Herb Ritts

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.