Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Lee

Second in state, definitely a good accomplishment. Nothing to be ashamed of. A lot of kids do well one year and the next year they do the same or worse. I was happy that I could at least say that I improved.

Scott Parrish

My kids played extremely hard and they have nothing to be ashamed of. They executed the game plan perfectly, but King's picked up their defense and made it hard for us to get good shots at the end.

Maureen McGovern

Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back on those times as being very exciting for me as a performer and, in fact, I still sing some of those songs today.

Adam Vaccari

My goal was (to finish in the) top three. But after I found out the strength of this weight class, getting fifth . . .that's a good weekend and I'm not ashamed at all.

Jeremy Warren

Maybe Chris doesn't know the difference. This is a slanderous distortion of the record, and Chris Bell should be ashamed of himself.

Sammy Morris

When you're an athlete and can expose to people that you battle a lot of the same things that they go through, it helps them believe in themselves. You're talking about someone who is established as a very good player in this league who is able to relate that. Young people can see that he was brave enough to not only overcome it, but talk about it and show that he came out OK, that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Tom Rachman

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

Erich von Stroheim

When you ask me why I do such pictures I am not ashamed to tell you the true reason: only because I do not want my family to starve.

Will Smith

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Rob Wheeler

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Stephen Davis

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mabel Illidge

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Granth Sahib

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

Oliver Cromwell

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it

Archer John Porter Martin

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Robert Klein

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives

Laura Dern

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

Jaswant Singh

Let us see what difference there is between his utterances and his actions.

Kim Carter

Losing weight has made all the difference in the world in his mobility and recovery (from surgery).

Justin Duchscherer

Last year we got ragged on quite a bit, but I thought we were pretty good. The difference is this year we have a lot of different looks. You've got guys who can do more than one thing.

Robert Latham

Many homeowners in Mississippi neglect to purchase flood insurance. What many do not realize is that all residents of our state live in a flood zone. The only difference is whether you live in a low, moderate or high risk area.

Mark Peterson

Self-motivation is the difference this season. I go out and throw strikes and don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I just try to play and have fun.

George Will

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Terrie Williams

(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.

Charles Spurgeon

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Charles Spurgeon

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

Charles Spurgeon

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional, and that's all I'm saying.

Ryan Newman

Mine was unintentional and his was intentional and that's all I am saying. NASCAR can do what they want.

Angus MacMillan

Mine production is nowhere near what we thought it would be at the start of the year.

Rainbow Rowell

My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Dede Wilsey

I can't remember. They're somebody's. But they're mine now.

Roger Hatch

From now on I'll be a spectator sitting in the stands, having my pop and watching from there. It's been a passion of mine for a while, and I'll still be there to support (the club).

Troy Williamson

For real? Wow. That's crazy. Nah, I'm going to keep mine and put it in my house.

Bill Dee

I was real proud of him. I told him his overall win percentage is better than mine now.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

William Shakespeare

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

E. Helm

Mom, I just couldn't think of a better way to spend your birthday. Sorry I'm not with you, though.

Charles Olson

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

Diane Keaton

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Edward Abbey

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

Brian Deegan

I feel so sorry for them and I feel so despondent for them. It's just so needless, it's just so pointless.

Elizabeth Bishop

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Dominic Cooper

There's this exhausting energy from you getting your lines out and your words right, especially if it's a complicated scene. And as soon as the camera is off you and goes on the other person, you're talking garbled garbage and you feel so sorry for them because you've lost the will to live, after 18 hours of saying those lines. That's terribly unfair. So, I do love the quick-paced nature of it.

David Nicholls

Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

David Nicholls

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Charles Spurgeon

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

Charles Spurgeon

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Eileen Caddy

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Dave Mustaine

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

Chris Lowery

We've never done this. We've always been on eggshells wondering if we were going to get in or not.

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Sean Connery

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.