Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Wade

We have to go back to those mighty precious values we've left behind. We have to go back and look and see to remember the battles we've fought ... looking backward to help us move forward.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Kathy Baker

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

Eric Hughes

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Ozzie Smith

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.

Pat Williams

We stopped caring whether he was coming or not. If he came, he came. If he didn't, he didn't. He's here now, but he's late and we're not waiting for him. We're not going to go backwards waiting for him.

Mark Helprin

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Todd Galloway

We have to get out there and get to the shooters and at least put a hand in their face to make it a tough shot.

Andy Lopez

We have to get better pitching performances. When you face a team like Fullerton, you know their Friday night guy is going to be there for six or seven innings.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

James Comey

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Eric Lotke

The reality is that recidivism rates are low - which runs in the face of the notion of the super-predator that these laws are aimed at getting. But do people know that? Do people know that if they were to go to the library and look up the recidivism rates for these offenders, the highest they would see is somewhere in the teens?

Carre Otis

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Carol Leifer

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

Carlos Castaneda

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

C. S. Lewis

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

C. S. Lewis

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

C. S. Lewis

The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

David Parrish

We want to rebuild a strong neighborhood that's got potential. If we picked a spot that had 73 parcels and 50 homes and 40 were just falling apart, that would be a total redevelopment.

Agnes Repplier

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

C. S. Lewis

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

Eid Kabalu

We have no confirmation (of their presence in Mindanao). As far as the MILF is concerned, there have been no sightings. We have no personal knowledge that they are here,

Steve Howard

Whenever they focus on risk, the Houston region will fare well.

Greg Gilchrist

When you're winning, you don't have to make excuses, or when you're losing, you shouldn't come up with any, either. As far as I'm concerned, we just got outrun today.

William H. Macy

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Bob Grantham

We want our property tax rates lowered significantly and substantially and meaningfully. So far we have not seen anything in that direction.

David Jones

We want it (the fire) far enough out and in an open spot.

Mats Sundin

We were back on our heels far too much.

Tony Woody

We were a step late all night long. We did not do a good job of matching their intensity. They played hard. They played like a team that wanted to go a little farther (in the playoffs).

Polly Lawrence

We were as flat as flat could be. They just didn't give up.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Abby Wambach

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

Kourtney Kardashian

I think I forget every time - you give birth, and you want your stomach to be flat again. It does take a lot of work, but I usually start slowly by going on walks with the baby.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lon Carter

West is a heck of a club. They've got very good flat track speed.

Kris Carr

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Brian Seymore

We're going to lean on Sam all season. He makes plays no one else can make.

Rodney Atkins

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

Josh Silver

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

Vanessa Friedman

For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,

Gino Guyer

From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support each other.

Susan Brown

We've been living lean for quite some time. Now the ship has come in.

Lee Raymond

We'll keep a very lean and mean organization, and we'll outsource everything we can.

Jack Wilson

We have a very young starting rotation and I think it's important that they know they can lean on our offense to score some runs and take some pressure off them.