Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Gilbert Scott

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

Richard Lamm

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.

Mark Coffman

I thought we played with a lot of energy, but we just didn't shoot the ball very well. We were atrocious at the line. We got some good free throw shooters there at the line near the end and that helped.

Yoshinori Katori

Terrorism cannot be justified for any reason. The government of Japan reiterates its firm condemnation of atrocious terrorism that victimizes many innocent people.

Robert Brusca

The president has an atrocious record when it come to job growth.

Art Hogan

All of the news we got today was negative and the market was defying it ... the news was atrocious today,

Howard White

First of all, our shooting from the free throw line was atrocious in the first half. That set the tone for us. And we played no defense. We didn't play defense until we were in trouble in the fourth quarter. That's when we stepped up.

Jordan Knight

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

John Mozena

Technology solutions can only go so far. It's not like the Internet is broken and these messages go out automatically. Human beings send them, and despite the atrocious spelling most of them use, often they're very canny people.

Bill Schneider

Where is Gore with women? Just 50 percent, ... Given how badly he is doing with men, and it is very bad, he has got to boost his standing with women.

Nikki Grimes

In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Iker Casillas

When we beat them there (in Barcelona) in the Champions League (in 2002) no one applauded us. If we play well and win that will be great and if we play badly and win that will be great too.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Constantine Karamanlis

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Shaun White

What's really good is I'm riding really badly today. It's actually great because when I have a bad day it means I'm going to have a good day tomorrow.

Kay Yow

We knew we were tired, but not that tired to play that badly in the first half. We got into a deep hole and then we were just fighting for our lives.

Todd McCullough

When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()

Dave Hakstol

The plain fact is that some guys really have to look deep within themselves and figure out how badly they want to play. You can't come out and play rope-a-dope for two periods. On our home ice, you don't want to leave a game to a bounce of the puck in the last 20 minutes and we did. And this is what you get, a 1-0 loss.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Lorenzen Wright

What hurts the most is losing the way we did.

Lindsay Bowen

We didn't want to go out this way. It hurts a lot right now.

Rick Carlisle

We're down players, which hurts us, but also we're in a situation where we've got zero margin for error. We're going to have to make shots. We just could never get anything going offensively.

Matt Mantei

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Right now it hurts - bad.

Lisa Bluder

I don't know that a win here puts us in, but a loss here hurts us quite a bit. Last year, that was one that we did point to and say maybe this kept us out.

Unknown

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

Ben Voogd

To come out and not show up the one day we need to, that hurts the most.

Tom Davies

It hurts when you lose a tough one like that. That's why Southern Illinois is where they are, and where they've been.

Alex Rodriguez

It hurts to think about where we would be without these guys. They've been a godsend.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Melinda Hinkson

There are a lot of things we think need to be addressed. Wal-Mart just woke us up.

Paul Davis

When I woke up (Saturday morning), I was still dizzy.

Mitch Kapor

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Keith Richards

And also, she's just woke up and we're going to sleep,

Judah Friedlander

It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.'

Rand Paul

We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.

Tyrus Thomas

It kind of woke us up. It could have been any of us.