Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Catherynne M. Valente

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

Allama Iqbal

Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein.

Adam Savage

Bigger is always better.

Adam Savage

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Adam Savage

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

Jack Ma

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are more calm-minded.

Amanda Harlech

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

David Whyte

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

Aesop

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

George Herbert

Waight and measure take away strife.

Philip Wylie

There is no advance without strife.

Menachem Begin

There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate.

Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.