Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Shane Koyczan

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

Friedrich Muller

If an occasion arises, friends are pleasant; enjoyment is pleasant, whatever be the cause.

Donald McKay

I feel the better way is to 'begin' and then see where your imagination takes you. That's where the enjoyment of writing comes into full flower.

Judy Thompson

I find it extremely enjoyable, I'm far more patient and I think I know a lot more.

Clare Callahan

I can tell if someone auditioning has good coordination, and hearing, but I look for the enjoyment in what they are doing too.

Jerome Forneris

I have bowled my entire life and gained great pleasure and enjoyment from the sport. This is a tremendous honor.

Paolo Maldini

He enjoys the game and that is the only thing that you can know about him at the moment, ... If he really wants to be a footballer than he will know how to handle all the pressures there will be for him.

Guus Hiddink

I think the reaction is very nice because it's a reaction of enjoyment, it's not violent...I think there were one or two injuries where people dislocated their shoulders waving flags.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Studd

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Charles Stanley

You may have the gift of giving.

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Khare Hawkins

You do have to be fashionable because you do represent us. If you are part of this troupe, you must look the part at all times.

Twyla Tharp

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

Jonathan Fox

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

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Tom Ferguson

We're just saying we want him to stay. He's saying he doesn't want any more than the teachers get.

Burke Stinson

We're just saying 'time out' to technology until the new year.

Cassie Johnson

We're getting a lot of e-mails saying they wish they could watch curling more often. They can't wait for Vancouver.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Frank Vargo

We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Bruce Vento

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Camille Claudel

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

C. S. Forester

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.