Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

Becky Miller

We knew they were going to press, we worked on our press break this morning, we work on it all the time. We did not handle their pressure well. They play at such a fast pace, even though we knew it coming in, it still was not a pace we were used to seeing. We didn't do a good job running our offenses, especially in the first quarter we took crazy shots because we panicked.

Marty Holah

Very disappointing, we certainly had the opportunities to put the game away in the first half. We made a lot of line breaks and didn't convert them into five pointers.

Jamie Munro

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great team and we tried to take it to them. ? We played hard. They played hard.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Meta Golding

I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Colin Powell

has the interest of the Haitian people at heart.

Rene Preval

If they publish the results as they are now, we will oppose them, the Haitian people will also oppose them, and there will be protests.

Barbara Boxer

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

Quetel Osterval

Every Haitian here is supporting 10 people back on the island, and that's 10 votes.

Robert Maguire

The window will probably not be open too long. He will have to show some improvement in their lives. And he will need partnerships of Haitians with resources to do this.

Rene Preval

The Haitian people are frustrated. They have a right to be frustrated. And they have the right to protest. But we must respect private property. We must respect the law. We must respect the rights of others.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Bill Johnson

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Tom Watson

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Joan Armatrading

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

Karen Albanese

I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that.

Darren Dopp

That whole quote that he had from Mr. Spitzer was fabricated.

Stephen LaDue

I was able to aggressively quote it because I had the availability of that product.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

John Hope

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

Dave Barry

I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

Lorrie Moore

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

Glenn Beck

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

Tom Watson

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

Joseph Pilates

You're only as old as your spine.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

David Brooks

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

David Millar

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Elizabeth May

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

Barbara Tuchman

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Ban Ki-moon

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty