Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Dan Penick

From what I'm told going hard in practice is what determines how much playing time you get. I'll just get up there and work hard and hopefully I'll get in there.

Benjamin Whorf

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Joe Barker

What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?

Alex Jamieson

What we eat determines how well our digestion works,

Jeff Wilkinson

I think what y'all do is vital to our community. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think the square foot (of a house) determines the characteristic of a neighborhood. I hope this passes tonight. One-size-fits-all may have been appropriate at one time, but now we may be in a situation where one size doesn't fit anymore.

Davis III

It determines who's thinking the best, who's the most patient, who's more determined.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charles Walters

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Alan Perlis

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Alain Prost

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Akshay Kumar

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Chris Cleave

It was hard not to be full of hope

Tyrell Thompson

We know Woodlands is going to be hungry. We have to come out and play harder or this will be it for us.

Joe Layne

We knew they (Oneida) were going to be ready, and I think we were too. We had to match their intensity and I think we did that.

Ashlee Smith

We started playing together, and we picked it up intensity wise.

Randy Snelling

We started off slow, but we really turned up the intensity in the second half.

Cooper Farris

We're going to need to show more intensity than we have in the past. Co-Lin is a better team than Jones and the split with Pearl River shows that.

Dave Schutter

Workouts went good. The intensity was good. Of course, it's the end result. We have to wait and see how we perform out in competition, see how we perform at the end of the season when it matters the most.

John Lazicki

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Amani Toomer

If I was a psychologist, I could tell you. We didn't match their intensity ... I just can't understand that.

Ed Rappaport

I think it has probably reached its maximum intensity now.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Tony Skinn

If that will make our opponent not take our abilities seriously, then let us be the Cinderella.

Henry Jordan

I think it's very unfortunate for him and the state. Obviously, I'm his opponent and I don't want to see him do well.

Ryan Fields

My toughest opponent is going to be in our wrestling room.

Branco Milenkovic

It has become very frustrating, to say the least, trying to secure an opponent for our man.

Hal Mumme

We've already done that. The two quarterbacks we have, Vincent hasn't played before and Gill played JC. We've taken out as much as we can.

Mike Pomerenke

We stopped doing all the little things that we did earlier. We reverted back to some of our old ways and played with not a lot of intensity.

Dave Odom

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

Scooter Dunn

We started a little slow, but we hadn't played any.

John Stockton

We've got a pretty young team with a lot of sophomores and some new freshmen, but they've played together a lot,

Indy Uhlenhopp

We were a whole different team since the first time we played them.

Steve Kohn

There is no question that race and racial prejudice played a part in the interplay between these individuals.

Neal McDonough

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome.

Jeff Halpern

When we weren't in the box, I thought we played pretty well.

Bill Johnson

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Cat Deeley

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Gregg Laskoski

We were as wrong as you could get.

Douglas Brinkley

With Nixon, you see the right way to do it and the wrong way to do it.

Bruce Jenner

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Sasha Adams

She was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ed White

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.