Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Aidan Chambers

And trust dies from ifs and buts

John Powell

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

David O. Selznick

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

Joan Didion

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

Erma Bombeck

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

Kajol

I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions.

Greg James

I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my training, making sure I warm up and warm down before everything and not pushing myself too stupidly.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Ariel Winter

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Al Ries

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

David Sedaris

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

Casey Stengel

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

Elizabeth Banks

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

Cheryl Strayed

Wanting to leave is enough.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

Billy Wilder

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

Bill Watterson

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.