Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Debra Messing

As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.

Elena Satine

I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.

Domhnall Gleeson

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Catherine Tate

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

Rodney Brooks

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Alexander Skarsgard

For me, creatively, I'd suffocate if I played the same thing, over and over again. I want challenges. I want to sit down with a director and be like, "I've never done this before, but it's going to be exciting. It's scary, but really thrilling, so let's do it!"

Eric Block

We don't know (about the house), ... That's the scary part.

Aaron McGruder

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

Charles Taze Russell

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

Mahmud Abbas

Much work still needs to be done but nothing can take away from this victory, ... day of joy.

Neal Cohen

Much work needs to be done in this area.

Jon Moore

No! No! ... That's my son. He needs to come with me. Let him come with me.

Ken Hoyt

My 97-year-old grandmother needs to be able to open this.

Suki Waterhouse

My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that 'day after' texture.

Bennie Thompson

needs to go talk to some of the people I'm talking to.

Cedrick Wilson

needs to get in the end zone before the season begins.

George Edwards

needs a narrative, a reason that voters should give him a look.

Chris Crutcher

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.