Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Castellaneta

Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

Michael Bennet

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

Glenn Thompson

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Ron Murphy

He's been crushing the ball. He's on a roll a little bit.

Kevin Thomas

He was just crushing them by the end of the year. That was about as dominant as I've ever had a horse. Just to win at the Meadowlands is something, and the way he was doing it up there was special.

Johnny Rotten

Every time I see Bono in those big fly glasses and tight leather pants I just can't hack it. I can't see that as solving the world's problems. He's crushing his testicles in tight trousers for world peace.

Tom Drohner

I think people are going to find out about her very quickly this season. She has a great swing and has been crushing the ball.

John Norris

We'll have another tightening or two and then the Fed can pause. Twelve weeks from now, the Fed will hopefully see inflation is not terribly different from now and is not going to risk crushing the economy with more rate hikes.

Hosni Mubarak

All the numbers from all the governorates indicate a crushing victory for the crescent, ... This means that hopefully he will win with a huge margin.

Alan Rickman

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Chet Atkins

You shape your own destiny.

Darren Shan

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Darren Shan

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Darren Shan

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Cesare Pavese

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Cesare Pavese

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Cesare Pavese

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

Cesare Pavese

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Akio Morita

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

Akio Morita

the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.

Chris Avellone

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

China Mieville

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

David Guterson

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Carl Sagan

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

Carl Sagan

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

C. Wright Mills

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

C. Wright Mills

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

Marc Faber

I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.

Lawrence Korb

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

Victoria Osteen

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

Finn Wittrock

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Hassan Rouhani

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

Kevin Adams

Musically and creatively, it's more fulfilling than any thing I've ever done, ... Live From Studio B.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Capt. McDonough

He was fulfilling his job obligation. He did the right thing. He got the patient to the hospital.

Oscar Wilde

On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Mario Cuomo

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Miranda Cosgrove

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.