Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Hendrickson

Starting with eight games on the road doesn't help. That's a big hole to climb out of.

Sylvester Stallone

Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander. You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire.

Carrie Underwood

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

Aron Ralston

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

Bryan Kelly

I think the second goal really took the wind out of their sails. That second goal really deflates the opposition. They think now we have a two-goal hill to climb as opposed to one. That second goal was humongous for us.

Dave Tippett

It doesn't matter if it's Marty (Turco) or the defense. No matter how you slice it, when you give up five goals, that's a hard obstacle to climb over.

O. Winston

I feel like I'm playing better every game, ... I'm not up and down; ever since the start of the season, I've been climbing up. That's why I'm excited. We're going into these last five games, it's the meat of our schedule, it's all ACC opponents and I think I can play better football than I have been.

Jacob Boehme

I did not climb up into the Godhead, neither can so mean a man as I am do it; but the Godhead climbed up in me, and revealed such to me out of his Love.

Guido van Rossum

I think the real key to Python's platform independence is that it was conceived right from the start as only very loosely tied to Unix.

Julia London

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

Jeffrey Thomas

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

Laurent Fabius

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Bertrand Russel

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

John Adams

My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived

Doug Liman

Simon had originally conceived 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' as a TV show not as a movie.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Venerable Bede

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

Chris Chelios

That's the most obscure place you could have it. Most players won't go. I think he set up to discourage as many people as possible from going.

Katherine Harris

limiting the mortgage interest deduction would discourage home ownership and stifle economic growth.

Todd Fox

I don't discourage anybody. If you want to wrestle, you can wrestle.

Kyle McKenzie

I feel like I'm NFL material. Just because I didn't get invited to the combine, it doesn't discourage me. It just makes me want to work harder and prove myself.

Jamie King

I would think the networks would look to partner and encourage experimentation with techniques that involve the viewer and discourage them to skip the commercials.

Ed Bailey

I would discourage us to do that. It's raising an issue or perpetuating an issue that doesn't need to be perpetuated right now.

Judith Hoag

My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Claude LeBas

We discourage the armaments up here because it's not necessary on the northern border.

Richard Flaherty

We do discourage playing one off the other,

Donna Roberts

Our main fundraiser is the gala. We raised $200,000 during the gala and our hope is to raise $50,000 here today.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Jeanette Siemens

Our leadership was well represented and we hope it will be again.

Dan White

Our members look for leadership from us and hopefully they'll take our advice. The majority said they liked what Culver had to say and that's where the endorsement went.

Helio Castroneves

People might see an opportunity, but I hope people are more patient a little bit, ... This is the last road course, but there is nothing I can do. It's out of my control.

Peter Jensen

Sure there are things that are discouraging. But I'm never going to lose hope.

Bart Schouten

Sure, some words have been exchanged. They've been talking about training together next year, and I hope they still feel that way.

Ben Tate

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put the 'boom' on me -- knock me out. I just laugh. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we are. I get to show what I can do a little bit.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Kevin Reilly

I think serials are particularly tough on Friday. And that is one lesson I've learned.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Catherine McAuley

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

Jeev Milkha Singh

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Eoin Colfer

The only lesson I really wanted to get across,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Brad Gair

Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public shelters as soon as we can.

Steve Smith

Our mission is to work prisoners in a businesslike manner. If you work in a businesslike manner, you have to make a profit.

Brian Morrison

Our mission is to make people as comfortable as possible as they're undergoing the treatment process.

Jan Chovanec

Our mission is to be ready 150 percent for the NCAA.

Bryan Whitman

Our commanders have addressed that issue. The mission remains what it is each and every day.

Myles Brand

It is an issue. A number of those institutions received mission exemptions, but there are a number of institutions that are still not performing as well for student-athletes as they are for the rest of the student body.

Deb Henderson

It didn't stop what our mission is for the season.

Steve Squyres

Today is day 591 of our 90-day mission to Mars.

Ashton Kutcher

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Brian Collins

That's the real tonic for these programs and why (people) come back and do them again. It's overcoming something powerful.

Ahmet Zappa

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Britt Ekland

Fame overcomes everything.

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Alan Cohen

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

A. C. Benson

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

David Belle

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

David Belle

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Tom Izzo

I thought we sucked it up pretty good.

Andrea M. Ghez

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.

Jim Haslett

We sucked on that field, ... It had nothing to do with where we live. We were just poor.

O. Henry

We sucked it up today. This is the ultimate.

Ceedrick Ware

I just sucked it up, went down and made a steal.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Stan Javier

Our timing is not there yet, but we are all in the same boat. We are here. That's where we wanted to be.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Dennis Hastert

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Amartya Sen

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Gerhard Schroder

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Jim Fowler

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Gregory Benford

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Atharva Veda

O Scholar! Work for the welfare of the nation!