Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Cheryl Strayed

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Bernhard Schlink

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Tim Ryan

As we remember our nation's bravest, let us live up to the ideals for which they fought and died, that we may be not just the beneficiaries of their bravery but stewards of their sacrifice.

Victor LaValle

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Granth Sahib

Wherever He sends them, there they go. By His Command, the Lord, Har, Har, abides within our minds; by His Command we merge in Truth.

Moses

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Tom Slater

Woodall was outstanding. He had total command of the mound and three pitches. They got one good swing on him, but other than that, they didn't take any good swings at him.

Jeff Jones

U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry.

Chris Young

Always, the key for me is the command of my fastball. And my command has been getting better and better. For the most part today, I was able to do what I wanted with it.

John Hendricks

They do command a good share of the waters in the rivers in the Front Range.

Michael Bryant

This command team has taken leadership, all for a common purpose.

Jason Kamiya

This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs.

Rick Anderson

This guy's got great stuff. It's just a matter of commanding it. We've always thought he's nasty. I watch him in the pen, and I say, 'Wow!' At 28, a lot of guys hit their prime.

Brian Pearce

This past year has seen the sharp rise in fuel prices more than offset the efficiency gains and a strong revenue environment.

Chris Newton

It's all about efficiency and smarter selling, and it really runs their business.

Sen. David

Your performance has not only been outstanding, it has been dazzling. We haven't seen a commissioner move with such efficiency and expediency as you have for a long time.

Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did 'Go,' so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Earl Hesterberg

We are very pleased to have experienced automotive people like Steve join our team. We need this type of leader to help us improve our overall operating efficiency while simultaneously growing our company.

Steve Smith

We want to get several ideas on energy efficiency before we make a decision.

Paul Bemis

You get more speed and more fuel efficiency out of using the software.

Peter Drucker

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Jay Roberson

We need better information on survival rates and recruitment rates of mourning doves. But we have to look at the availability and efficiency of non-toxic shot.

Denise Levertov

In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.

John Livingston

We are pleased to be making such positive progress toward our primary objective of one million users by June 30, 2007,

Richard Archer

We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

LeRoy Neiman

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Jeff Reinebold

This is where I want to be. I love this program, and I love working for June Jones.

Johnny Cash

This is the hide-out he and June used for 14 years,

Richard Bracken

Probably until June when there is another month when there will be three pay periods.

Bruce Arena

Some were hunches, others were potential, others, we have until June 12 and think we can turn this player around.

Dexter Irvin

Right now we're in the exploratory phase. We will submit our application and fees the first of June with the anticipation we'll be a provisional member of the NCAA the first of July.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Charlaine Harris

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

David Cook

There's a lot of flatland in Texas and in the northern part of the state.

Tom Greene

It's all Northern Telecom. It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other tech stocks with it.

Bruce LaRoque

Rapids and Roseau have had a long-standing rivalry. Sometimes you like to see the two northern schools not playing (each other in the first round), but I suppose the southern schools could say that, too.

Ryan Cartwright

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.

Scott Pfister

Southern Vermont is worse than northern Vermont. At least in northern Vermont we did get a little precipitation over the weekend. We didn't get a whole lot, but there was a little bit.

James Nesbitt

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

John Tucker

You get those from the Northern perspective and those from the Southern perspective and I don't think we get more of one than the other.

Ian Paisley

It was amazing that I was ever elected.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Timothy Garton Ash

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

Thomas Jefferson

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.