Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Beth Riesgraf

It's important for me to play women who can overcome adversity, make change, and take control of their lives. I think it's a great time for women in TV and film in general, and I want to help tell these stories.

Bernard Barton

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

Aron Ralston

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Bill Vaughan

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

Ron Wilson

That was huge, to respond to some adversity. We're going to face this kind of stuff when we're on the road, and it's great for our confidence, to be able to win that kind of game.

James Fleming

That was the best second half I've seen us play ... We scored only three points in the first half, and came back to score 22 in the second. I was impressed with the sense of urgency in the face of adversity with which we played.

Dan Cleary

We have the composure and leadership in here to know what we have to do. It's a little bit of adversity that we have to face, we just have to get through it.

Frank Schade

We have a lot of kids back. What they accomplished this year with 14 wins was far, far better than I had ever dreamed. I thought they worked through some adversity. Most games we went into I thought we were the underdog, and I was very pleased with how they handled themselves.

Tony Fernandes

The pilots cannot get over the fact that I have a cup of coffee with the guys who carry the bags. My secretary will (even) go out and help clean the planes if we are running into a delay.

John Kyriakopoulos

The outlook for the Fed policy is clearly data dependent. I cannot see much downward correction to the U.S. dollar over the near term being driven by the data.

Beeban Kidron

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.

David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

Donald Norman

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Don Young

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Alice Walker

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Alice Walker

I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Donna Nelson

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Charlize Theron

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live

Al Franken

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Rachel Cusk

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Patrick Rothfuss

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

Russ Brown

I think the streak meant more to the alumni. It was more of a distraction for the players.

Anja Paerson

I think this week was not meant to be.

Yuri Kochiyama

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Sandra Williams

We're uniting together to reach out into the community.

Bruce Teitelbaum

We have not received any offer. They know how to reach us.

Larry Harris

I feel we reached out and stole a Clipper.

Debra Moore

He just said he tried. (He) just couldn't reach his girls. It's just sad.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Evelyn Glennie

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Andy Pettitte

We haven't spent time together like we did in New York.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

CC Sabathia

I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.

Carrie Fisher

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...

Carrie Fisher

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Underwood

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Bethany Hamilton

I love the ocean, and I love surfing. It's something so special and unique, and surfing is unlike any other sport. Skateboarding is amazing, you get the adrenaline rush, but you don't get the feel of the ocean, of doing its own thing. Totally surrounding you. Definitely a unique thing, it's a blessing, and a huge part of my healing process I would say.

Ashley Tisdale

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

Ashley Tisdale

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

Ashton Kutcher

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Carrie Brownstein

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

Carrie Fisher

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carl Safina

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Rogers

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Bethenny Frankel

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

Bethany Hamilton

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to God for help and I'm excited to share that.

Benjamin Rush

Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

Ashton Kutcher

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Ameen Rihani

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

David Byrne

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

Gunter Grass

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.