Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Shadid

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Greg Schrimpf

That was in the back of our minds. There was still a bitter feeling going around the school, and I think we just wanted to make sure that didn't happen to both teams.

Doug Bradley

I think this is going to turn out to be a bitter divorce.

Susilo Yudhoyono

It is not an easy choice. I understand that this is a bitter pill but I have to do it to save the country's economy and the country's future,

Larry Craig

I think that what we heard ... is devastating to the White House. Now we know why the White House fought right to the bitter end on disallowing those videotapes from coming to the floor.

Larry Craig

I think that what we heard ... is devastating to the White House, ... Now we know why the White House fought right to the bitter end on disallowing those videotapes from coming to the floor.

Alec Baldwin

lives in a constant state of tension wherein she must never display or divulge her true feelings for her father because of the mother's all-consuming and bitter feelings toward me.

John Copeland

I won't be celebrating either way because the method and timing has caused so many bitter feelings to resurface. Give feelings a chance to heal and work with what you have. It isn't all that bad.

Clive Sinclair

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Rosecrans Baldwin

That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.

Michael Holland

I think here for a while we will probably digest the recent gains,

Joe Roetheli

It digests very well. In fact, it helps if there's other material to be more digestible.

Richard Mueller

There are so many new entrants in the market, that some of these hedge funds and other players may take a while to digest the news.

Richard McCabe

I think in the next week or two, we may get a little pullback or reaction, maybe a 3 or 4 percent setback from the recent highs on the averages, just to digest the last phase of gains before we move higher in March and April.

Heidi McIntosh

I think we need time to digest this, but this is not the end of the road, so to speak.

Jim Awad

We've just come off a very big quarter and so we have to digest some of those gains.

Gail Z. Martin

I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

Seth Sulka

We were not looking to do this the day after the season ended. We took some time to digest what happened and together made this decision.

Roger Germann

Rod is worried about votes 20 years ago, but we are about to lose $13 million for traffic safety.

Ed Farmer

Maybe it made him realize he had to lose weight to get his swing back and to take pressure off his foot.

E. O. Wilson

Man, I think we just got to the point where if we were going to lose, we were going to lose fighting. If you don't like the way it's going, you have to do something about it. We did something about it, we got after them in the second half.

Martin Rees

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Tuukka Rask

The Americans are such a skilled team and I just tried to not lose my focus.

Mirko Slomka

That was a real setback. We are the losers of this round.

Freddy Keiaho

That's the luck of the game. That's something you can't prepare for. In the end, we lose as a team.

Cecelia Ahern

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with him about doping. We are optimistic.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with (Rogge) about doping, ... We are optimistic.

Antoine Hood

I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.

Banks

I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

Justin Gray

We were right there. It's tough to swallow right now.

Ann Voskamp

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Jose Andres Puerta

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

Larry Walker

It's tough to swallow. It's tough to swallow for everyone in this clubhouse.

O. J. Simpson

Some things can swallow other things whole, but this is a chew-up-and-swallow meal.

J. K. Rowling

So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Swallowing angry words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterwards.

Tyson Chandler

He told me he was going to make me swallow my mouthpiece.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.