Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Charles Stanley

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

Charles Spurgeon

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Alan Watts

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Chip Conley

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Chiang Kai-shek

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

Rafael Benitez

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

Jason Giambi

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we're going to play the team that's actually given us the most problems. We have to play good baseball.

Joaquin Bautista

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

Tim Conley

We're going to throw some people into some different events. We might try Michael in the 400, and we might switch our distance runners around a little bit. We're looking to qualify as many people as we can for the Meet of Champions later this month. This week and next week will be a great opportunity to do that.

Bob Bryan

We're going to be the U.S. Open champions playing that match,

Tim Harris

We're setting up for the Tournament of Champions -- that's district play. We had to get the kinks out so we can be ready and prepare for the district season.

Billy Beane

You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.

George Dagnino

We have high expectations. Our goal is to become (Imperial Valley League) champions and hopefully get back to that CIF championship game.

Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

Charles Dickens

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Charles Dickens

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Charles Caleb Colton

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Charles Caleb Colton

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Charles Caleb Colton

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Caleb Colton

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Alan Rickman

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

Chip Kelly

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

David Kim

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

Catherine Deneuve

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Dawn Staley

We faced elimination, so we know what it feels like. Seattle doesn't at this point, so it (the pressure) is going to be on them. They're supposed to win.

Mike Angel

We faced a team with a lot of athleticism and a lot of length. That made it more difficult.

Todd Abbott

We faced a really good pitcher our first game.

Kirk Maltby

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,

Randy Osnes

We faced a kid last night that threw different than what we saw tonight, so we had to make some adjustments.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

Meir Soloveichik

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Billy Donovan

We felt like Darrel Mitchell was the key to their team, so we tried to run at him and trap him as much as we could. When he gets his 18 or 19 points, everything else falls into place.

H. Hunt

We feel that Niagara Falls will be on the upswing and we want to be a part of it.

Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Kweisi Mfume

When the television-viewing public sits down to watch the new prime-time shows scheduled for this falls lineup,

Jack Canfield

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Eric Whitacre

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Trot Nixon

We started off sluggish. But we fed off our fans.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

David Hockney

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

Diane Swonk

We have seen a softer tone in their write-ups. I think there is a real sense that the Fed is going to stay on the sidelines.

Jason Chaffetz

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

Trevor Hoffman

When your horse is out there and pitches his butt off, my job is to nail it down, ... We would've liked to have fed off Jake's energy. The kid threw the heck out of the ball.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Thomas Carroll

We want to stop the run first and then force them into a passing game. I think that's what we did two years ago when we went up there in the rain. We stopped FSU tailback Greg Jones for 15 yards on 13 carries. That just lets you tee off on the quarterback.

Alex Segura

We want to show we're part of the labor force as well. We have a right to speak up and say we don't support illegal immigration.

David Suzuki

We have become a force of nature.

Elizabeth Ivey

The other thing is you need a good solid work force and 50 percent of us is female, so just play the numbers.

Mike Royer

We started slow, like we usually do, but we rushed things, and tried to force them when we needed to be more patient. The girls played hard, it just didn't happen.

Matt Benefiel

We struggled with their size and their length. They forced us to make perimeter shots.

Ryan Diggs

We stopped them from getting offensive boards. We did that, forced some turnovers and played our game.

Gregory Lagana

We're talking about a good 80 percent of our work force in Charleston.

Joel Sullivan

We started out sluggish, but they responded well and picked up the pressure and forced some turnovers.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Chris Colfer

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Edmond Rostand

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Buddy Hackett

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.,

Dee Dee Ramone

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Demi Lovato

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

Daniel Handler

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Joe Brancato

To be a part of this tonight is a thrill.

Amy Poehler

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Anthony Jeselnik

I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Charlie Bewley

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.