Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Woodrow Wilson

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Andrew Jackson

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Robert Herrick

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Brigitte Bardot

I have the courage of my convictions.

Milton Ezrati

This provides some conviction that China's economy is still growing very fast.

Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.

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.

Pierre Pettigrew

The deep conviction we have is that trade does lead to development, and development does lead to better human rights,

Todd Akin

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

Castor Pang

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

Michael Leunig

The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Scott Sandelin

We know we'll have to be patient as the younger players get comfortable with this level of hockey, but this is also a pretty driven group, ... This group can do a lot of good things.

Randy Olson

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

Laura Innes

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Kate Klise

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

J. C. Watts

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Eric McCormack

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

Tim LaVigne

We're a driven team. We know what we want and what we need to get it.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Charles Manson

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Armistead Maupin

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Bear Bryant

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Ted Taylor

Since my knees wore out, I quit officiating.

Matthew Wright

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Shonda Schilling

When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation.

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Albert Reynolds

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Marilyn Rush

We have to be out Friday. But we have nowhere to go.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.