Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope

Michael Carrick

The young English contingent was a massive factor in my signing, the club has a very bright future.

Pat Singer

They don't think he'll be sensitive to the needs of Brighton Beach. But he's not a stupid guy. He wants to have a future.

Derek Fox

This explosion is so far away that it is not visible in optical light, but we discovered that it is still quite bright in infrared light and X-rays.

Mary Kaye

They were from our other house, but I thought they were too bright here,

Timothy Adams

This is a bright opportunity in the economic relationship.

Stephen Harper

This has been an historic evening in this Parliament and this country. This is not just the end of a tired, directionless, scandal-plagued government. It's the start of a bright new future for this country.

Manny Fernandez

This has become a favorite for all the politicians in Florida. Whenever you try to talk about it, people think you want to kill Bright Futures and that's not the case.

Steve Hensley

They told us ... when they are deployed and are far from home - those (cards) really brighten their day.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Eddie Guerrero

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Bernard Baruch

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Carlos Fuentes

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

C. S. Lewis

Am I lost or just less found?

Xiaodong Song

We're talking about 50,000 times that of plate tectonic motion.

Jerry Angelo

We've got as lot of plates in the air.

Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Randy Johnson

Everything I threw over the plate they hit.

Gabriel Lippmann

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Tom McKenna

He stepped up to the plate and took this like a man.

Jeff Flowers

We just couldn't get it done at the plate today.

Rusty Wallace

When I took the plate off, I went 'Holy (smoke), you don't want to do this,'

Keith Baird

It's not an earthquake, it's more of a plate shift,

Kurt Tsue

The surf spots are still not deemed safe.

Denny Green

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

James Lind

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Bruce Montgomery

Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.

Neil Diamond

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.