Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Jacques Chirac

a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.

Paul Chavez

They set the stage for everything. Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did.

Dennis Perry

There is tremendous conviction here that people will not let it happen. Democracy is not working here, it's the only route we've got.

Joe Kalinowski

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

Larry Rice

It's a very tentative-type market where people are going to opt for safety and wait it out. I think there's just a lack of conviction here.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Paul McNulty

This conviction demonstrates that traitors can and will be held accountable,

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Al Davis

We've got labor peace and it's intelligent. It makes sense. We do have the greatest league in the world.

Eden Phillpotts

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

John Prendergast

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

John Howard

It's every parent's greatest wish, and I'm very happy for them.

Jason Cook

It's a situation right now where the greatest need is rescuing people, ... It's essentially plucking people from rooftops.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Caleb Colton

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Drew Brees

They have a lot of pressure on them right now. I just wanted them to know their quarterback still loved them.

Gordon England

This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost, and everyone who suffered so much that day.

Laura Seeger

There were three squads so everyone who tried out made it. I loved it.

Miguel Unamuno

It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love

Bill Rodgers

It's a different thing whether to keep going to races, but I've always loved racing.

Sherlyn Lattimer

It was rough camping, but she loved it. They were outdoors people.

Jay Shippole

It was in perfect condition. We just loved it.

Brad Meltzer

The thing we always loved the most when we pitched this,

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Victor Hugo

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.