Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Studd

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Carl von Clausewitz

Battles decide everything.

Ben Harper

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

Sun Tzu

A battle avoided cannot be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites

Mike Boles

Friday is going to be a battle but we're going to show up.

Damon Hewitt

If we can't win the battle in court, we'll find every voter we can touch and make sure they have every piece of information needed to participate.

Sergei Gonchar

If we can somehow fix this problem, it's going to keep us in the games. The game is going to be closer, and we're going to have a better chance in the third period. It's so hard to come back when you're down two goals, and we put ourselves in the position of having to battle back. It's hard to do.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Wally Walker

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

Michael Goodman

The music on both is pretty much the same. It's the N.F.L. and Ellen DeGeneres that builds a brand in the market, not 30 channels of rock music.

Will Rogers

A diplomat is one that says something that is equally misunderstood by both sides, and never clear to either.

Bobby Clark

The one thing I would be proud of the team, they kept trying really hard to win it. We forced both the overtimes - Notre Dame was the team looking to win the game.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Brad Falchuk

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Juvenal

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Cesar Chavez

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Catherine O'Hara

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Bobby Cox

Boyer has been up four times now, and he's fine.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

John Lawlor

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Julie Stradling

I've always thought KP was a great player. She's a great passer, a great point guard and a great shooter, too. We really needed her tonight and she did a great job.

Dick Fazio

I used to sit there and look over my shoulder at Irv when he was playing and wonder, what did this guy sound like 50 years ago when he was in his 30s? He was a great musician up until the end.

Mark Tauscher

Stupidity and mistakes aside, I think we had a great shot at winning. We're stuck in a really tough spot. You need a win, you want a win and we just didn't do it.

Terri Sullivan

Southern Illinois is a great program with great coaches. They play solid softball. We just have to play our style of softball if we want to win.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Chris Lynne

Zach had a lead, but we lost that with seven seconds left.

Dean Koontz

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Elijah Wood

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.

Mitch Albom

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

Rob Patek

Right now it doesn't mean a whole lot because we lost (at state). But when I look back on it, it'll be nice. Right now I'm not thinking too much about the records.

Jake Hutton

My senior year, I lost a lot of weight. Maybe that's why. Maybe they thought I was too small or something.

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Don Flanagan

Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.

Eric Reed

Nobody has a sure spot. We need to win our playing time.

Dr. Kane

Nobody had any inkling back then that this would get so big.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I just turned and seen there was nobody between me and the net, so I just shot it. I didn't even look at the clock.

Herbie Hancock

I mean, nobody has a statement on their record.

George Taplin

All we have to do is just stand there with our cameras. Nobody is going to show up.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Jerry Angelo

To get valued players you have to be willing to give value.

Andrew Bird

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Tony Levin

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony La Russa

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

Steven Gerrard

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Stephen Chbosky

Everyone is special in their own way.

Thomas Keating

To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere or do anything special.

Viggo Mortensen

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

Victoria Beckham

You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it

Takeru Kobayashi

I know that I have a special stomach.

Swami Vivekananda

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

Tommy Wiseau

The room is a special place. It's not "A room" it's THE room. It's a place where there is no restriction. If we title it "a room" it can be any room but it's THE room so it is a special place. We all have this place. It's like our little corner that you are comfortable with.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Dave Ramsey

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

John Goldsberry

Drexel is a team a lot like us, they're not going to give up, and they didn't, it was a tough game.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.

Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

Boris Becker

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

Didier Drogba

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

Bernie Sanders

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

Orson Scott Card

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.