Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Mark Shields

There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end.

Tim Minear

I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.

Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Britney Spears

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

Kristin Gore

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

Steve LeBlanc

We've got more bus space than people and I'm not going to send them off empty. We are going to hold empty buses until the bitter end.

Dean Koontz

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. ... To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

Carlos Mesa

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

Carlos Mencia

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

Carlos Mencia

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Carl Andre

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

C. S. Lewis

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Chamlong Srimuang

We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not stubborn, we have the interest of the country in mind.

Jack Ferguson

When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.

Wendell Saunders

There are a lot of good courses on the Northwest Side.

Barry Ritholtz

There is a lot of economic news to digest between now and the next meeting. If we see economic signs that are positive, then that would encourage the Fed to stay on the course of gradual rate hikes, but if things slow down then maybe they would skip a meeting or two.

Tom Bentz

There is a long list of production and refineries out because of the hurricane. The course is similar to what we saw with Ivan last year, which hit production for a long time.

Mark Rebholz

When I finally saw the surface of the water, the course turned out to be right on,

Jon Engelking

We usually don't play tournaments this early. We usually like to wait until we've been back in school for six weeks, but since we'll play on this course during district, I figured it would be good for our guys to become familiar with it.

Stefan Hell

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Azim Premji

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

C. S. Lewis

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

Alexander Downer

We have said many times before that ... at the very least, Indonesia is responsible for the security situation in East Timor,

Levance Fields

We have to get ready for Seton Hall, watch how everything plays out and wish for that bye in the Big East tournament.

Charles Stanley

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

Charles Spurgeon

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Charles Spurgeon

We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.

Charles Spurgeon

Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

Charles Spurgeon

This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

Charles Spurgeon

The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Richard Donnell

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Tim Finchem

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Bill Clinton

We have had the most unbelievable relationship over a very long period of time.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Billy Donovan

We've got a very quick turnaround. We're going to have to get a lot done in a very short period of time.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Katsuhiko Machida

The old way of doing things was just spreading us too thin.

Dr. Nabarro

Avian influenza is a big threat. It is spreading throughout the world.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Chris Cleave

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

Kurt Vonnegut

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Eckhart Tolle

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Wayne Beighle

You can see we have a big, big problem, and the weather's not cooperating. The winds are relentless.