Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Edith Wharton

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

David Trimble

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Jamie Oliver

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Soule

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Sturt

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Stanley

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

Scott Horne

We're going to see dramatic growth. The launch of third-generation mobile services in China is going to require new services.

Jonathan Blum

We're seeing improvement in our China business, and hopefully that will continue.

Jason Goulden

We're seeing a lot in China now that we didn't see in the past cycle. These are sort of the new frontiers so to speak.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

John Winn

We're going to take that into account, ... with open arms.

Tony Padilla

We're going to see if we can open things up with Tiger throwing the ball.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Lynn King

We're going to open a playable field, but we've got more work to do.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Chloe Sevigny

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Antony Sher

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Sheila McKinney

We're still recruiting new physicians to go in there...and physicians from outside the area.

Tom Chakurda

We're seeing about 25 to 35 of our patients having to seek transplantation somewhere else, be it UPMC or some other place outside the city.

Gordie Kerkman

They kind of surprised us with their outside shooting.

Edward Gibbon

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Scottish Proverbs

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.

Homer

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Joan Armatrading

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

John Calvin

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Dawn French

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Albert Camus

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Victoria Principal

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

Marie Dressler

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Halle Berry

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Howard Gardner

Education is at a turning point