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adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. Charles Caleb Colton
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. Charles Stanley
adversity fire secret
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. Charles Spurgeon
adversity suffering
But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
adversity opportunity leader
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. Chip Conley
adversity self challenges
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. Chiang Kai-shek
call clear information resources
We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on. Fred Engh
call effort takes
We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.
calling answers levels
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... Chris Bohjalian
calling uncomfortable okay
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. David Sedaris
call number
'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet. Lucas Till
calling course developed files members prior release sealed
There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation. Louis Stokes
call domestic interested whatever
I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas. Lisa Cholodenko
calling came consider education later life theater
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. Michael Moriarty
calling reason categories
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Marianne Moore
calmed fairly life realized rest sure time turn
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down. Michael Weatherly
calm created gap girls great hard matter nerves pressure relentless state teaching team tight tried
We struggled. The nerves were there no matter how hard we tried to calm the girls down. We were tight and had a lot of turnovers that created a lot of opportunities for them. Then as the gap widened, we got tighter and tighter. Bozeman is a great team and their pressure is relentless n that's why they are state champs.
calm crazy harmonies love middle peaceful time trying whenever
Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius. Nicki Minaj
calmed shook
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
calm door far fell hit trying walked wall
When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the ground. I thought he was just going into shock, and I was trying to calm him down.
calmed half rushed third
We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.
calm language speak
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. Bernard Pivot
calming came crunch defenders influence knew
When it came to crunch time, he was there for us. He was a very calming influence for us. We knew if one of our defenders got beat, Shep was back there.
calm accepting supplies
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. Barbara Tuchman
characters daytime kept number relate veterans
We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.
characters friend nice return spend suddenly time
There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
characters grew influenced obviously pulled
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
characters fix hand manuscript partner written
When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
characters convincing course hard hear normal question scares
I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
characters draw
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
characters good great interest people red tricks twist
When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
characters connect improv machines movies people sort
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
characters erase good name names saying written
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
contending fans mouth pick playoff spot supposed
We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.
contending five four point super
We've contended four out of five years for the Super Bowl. You get to a point where contending just isn't enough.
contending defensive expect lousy pitching starting team valley
Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensive problems, but we can't expect to be a contending team in the Valley with starting pitching like that.
contending days girls next seconds shave shot state
With the girls, if we do what we need to do the next 30 days and shave some seconds off our minutes, we should have a shot at contending for a state title.
contending fill four hope kids lost pitching spots strong top trying
We have our pitching back, so we're strong there. But we lost four seniors, so we're trying to fill those positions. We have some young kids getting their first varsity experience, but we hope to be contending for the top spots in the league.
contending frame struggle understand
That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail. Dennis Ross
contending dilemma direction guys kevin near nowhere pill swallow team tough
Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending for the playoffs. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow for (Garnett). When you look up and you're now 30, and you don't see the team contending, it's hard. It's going to be a big dilemma for Kevin and those guys in what direction they go in.
contending difficult eric outset time williams
Eric Williams was sensational. Right from the outset we had a difficult time contending with him.
contending guilty homicide offered plead voluntary
There was 25 years of provocation. I'm not contending this homicide was justified. It was a crime. He offered to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
formed studios
I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract. Nicolas Roeg
formed hot major planets pluto regions solar sun system thrown
There are two major possibilities. One that they formed in the innermost, hotter-most regions of our solar system when the sun and planets were forming, and they were thrown out -- all the way out to the Pluto region of the solar system. The other possibility is they were formed around other stars, in hot regions around other stars.
formed gives great loyal radio university
I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus. Terry Wogan
formed spirits
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by. John Ortberg
formed generation great shared
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. Tom Brokaw
formed golf open power resort shoot skilled soccer space sports using versus
Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. Zach Johnson
formed quite tastes
My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums. Hamish Bowles
formed seeing time
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with. Richard Greenberg
formed freezing ignores industry invited join market microsoft ready several
Basically, the industry has formed a standard, and Microsoft ignores it and does something else, ... They are freezing the market when we have an API that is ready to go now. We invited them to join us several times but they declined. John Wilson
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
habits rooted social toward
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. Stephen Covey
habits morals mostly social
Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities. George Bernard Shaw
habits individual sleep therefore
Sleep habits are very individual and therefore shouldn't be overestimated.
habits hoping might negativity remembered screw seem time
Then I remembered I was back on tour, and it was time to screw up. The old habits just don't seem to go away after the surgery. I was hoping all the old negativity might go away, but it's still there.
habits interested investors time
It'll take time for old habits to break. But the more interactions with investors, the better. It's always better to get more investors interested in your company.
mind colour new-thought
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else. Charles Stross
mind christianity holy
When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
mind states state-of-mind
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
pacific-northwest energy dams
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
pacific states studied
No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.
pacific solution
The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success, Amanda Vanstone
repose cease
repose, v.i. To cease from troubling. Ambrose Bierce
repose paramount gentleness
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. Michel de Montaigne
vigorous
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy. Geoff Mulgan
vigorous
That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.
wish gates
The wishing gate opens into nothing.
wish half wells
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. Al Stewart
wish weakness euthanasia
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. Al Pacino
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish three drink
I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that. Caitlin Moran
wish narnia wardrobe
Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia. Bryan Davis
wish expected wish-you-the-best
I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected. Catherynne M. Valente
wish criminal-mind criminals
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)
wish purpose failing
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.