Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Carville

Maybe it comes back stronger. No one forgot how to play the saxophone or how to cook or write. Or have a good time. That's all still there. Calamities and disasters are part of New Orleans' history. This too shall pass.

Bible Bible

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Larry Wall

We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.

Hui Liangyu

The Party and the government are affectionate to the people though typhoon and other calamities are merciless, ... We hope you will resume your work and rebuild your homes in a high morale as soon as possible.

L. Estrange

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

Edward Jenner

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others

William Archer

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Tom Rath

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

H. Tejomayananda

Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.

Yiddish Proverbs

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

Suzanne Pleshette

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.

Milo Ventimiglia

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Mark Hyman

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Mark Swartzberg

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

Jose Luis

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Sara Barwinski

It amounted to an excessive waste of resources and the destruction of a community.

Edmund Phelps

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Cindy Sheehan

I think their use of force was pretty excessive for someone that didn't have a permit.

Hosni Mubarak

heedlessness of all values and laws and its excessive rejection of peace and challenging the world.

Dave Duncan

I thought it was an awfully big fine for what involvement I had. I thought it was an excessive fine.

Brittany Rogers

We know what it felt like to lose up here. We didn't want that to happen again.

Kelsey Cermak

We know how it felt to go home after one game last year. We didn't want to go through that again.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Michael Specter

Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Lorne Calvert

We've always been proud Saskatoonians and Saskatchewanians, ... There really are so many things to celebrate. It's the greatest place in the world.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Eden Phillpotts

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

John Prendergast

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

Bryant H. McGill

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

John Clarke

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Paul Rosenthal

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

Charles de Lint

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Charles Studd

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Charles Spurgeon

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Charles Spurgeon

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Charles Spurgeon

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

Robert Krueger

We have prospects now who can take all of the space.

Patrick Barry

I think the prospects of success would have been diminished.

Richard Cobden

You had reached a pessimistic view about your company's prospects with the upcoming (copyright) case.

Kevin Rand

We're taking our time with him. He's too valuable a prospect not to take your time with him. We want to make sure everything's done right and he can come back as well as can be expected.

Kenichiro Sasae

There has been no breakthrough to this point, and the prospect is not bright.

John Carioba

There are not many prospects in the short term.

Paul Sereno

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Mark Rutte

In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.