Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Alan Hansen

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alain Prost

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Chris Colfer

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

Chinua Achebe

I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

China Mieville

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Edward Gibbon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Eartha Kitt

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

David Hilbert

I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

David Icke

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

David Hockney

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

David Douglass

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

David Brainerd

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

David Brooks

Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I set out to be the best and I am.

Audre Lorde

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.

We accomplished our goal of winning the division, and our secondary goal was getting that conference championship ring.

Colin Powell

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

We always have confidence but to have the success that we did on the ground today was a little surprising. The line provided a lot of holes and seams. We did a good job of keeping them guessing.

We always have a Plan B, and we're working on a C and D. We are confident we're going to find someone. All the ingredients are here. It's just a matter of what lucky group will open the store.

Gary Bettman

We always had confidence in the game and our fans,

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.

Denis Waitley

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.