Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bram Stoker

Despair has its own calms.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Edmund Burke

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Jeff Judkins

We have to go in and play with a lot of confidence. We know if we win we are in first place no matter what.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Tim Sheens

We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.

Marc Newson

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Bret Easton Ellis

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Dave Heiss

We knew they were going to come in here and battle. They started out of the gates quick and we were a little sluggish, but I thought our kids kept their composure.

Alberto Tomba

Giorgio tried to push away from the gates during the race as I suggested to him. But unfortunately he was wrong. He made a mistake. It shouldn't have happened.

Derrick Brooks

Obviously, we wanted to play better than we played last week, come out of the gates a little faster. We had an opportunity to make some plays ... and we did.

Chantal Sutherland

I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a half or two minutes of the race, it just hits you.

Homer

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Dom Wren

We always try to come out of the gates hard. We want to put away teams in the first 20 minutes, and we may not have done it with goals, but with the way we played, we wanted to let them know we were there from the first whistle.

Marnie Dacko

We've got to be able to come out of the gates ready to go. We can't have any time where we have a mental lapse.