Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Alexandra Adornetto

I honestly can’t tell you. We’ve never had a situation like this before, “I admitted. “So you being an angel doesn’t meam…” He hesitated. “Doesn’t mean I have an answer for everything,” I concluded for him. “I just assumed it would be one of the perks.” “Sadly, no.

Alexandra Adornetto

Beth: "You're ridiculous." Xavier: "I think you mean irresistible." Beth: "Yes, ridiculously irresistible.

Albert Schweitzer

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Cindy Sheehan

Mr. President, you mean you're willing to kill more Americans because you've killed so many already?

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

Terrence McNally

My first play was written when I was 23, and I'm 66 now, so that's 43 years of doing this where I sort of know where everything is. It doesn't mean I do everything right, but I know where everything is. Here, I'm very much a visitor. New York is my turf and I'm used to working with my actors.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Creative risks will always outweigh technical mistakes.

Robert Jenkins

I made a big mistake of my life.

Michael Irvin

Make no mistake about it, this is my quarterback right here,

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes were made, ... You don't prosecute people for making mistakes.

Kirk Ferentz

Mistakes like that, those are tough to overcome. It wasn't the start we needed at all.

Main Street

Mistakes have been made. Others will be blamed.

Green Day

Mistakes are a big part of our sound.

Ron Walker

One mistake was waiting too long to evacuate. There were serious problems.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Michelle Duffey

(Miranda) can't sit quiet for very long, so she'd be talking to somebody.

Rick Carlisle

One of the reasons it seemed like a quiet 37 was his shooting percentage. Unfortunately, we couldn't get him under control.

Roger Baldwin

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

Gideon Ezra

She was quiet and shy ... she was a very serious person,

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Dee Dee Ramone

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

Diego Della Valle

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Ali Larter

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Angela Cartwright

I was never one to seek out the spotlight.

Pete Carroll

I think, the more, the better. We've been in the spotlight so long, it's become normal.

Annie Lennox

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

Dan Fogelberg

I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

Patrick Stump

You could be your own spotlight!

Jerramy Stevens

So it's not a surprise that he's got something to say about it and that he's getting upset. Because that's his style, and I know that.

David Bone

No one was more surprised than we were,

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Michael Moskow

I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

Randy Gipson

I was surprised and flattered. I had not thought about something like this happening.

Sun Tzu

So it is said that victory can be made.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

Eduardo Galeano

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Lao Tzu

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Alexander the Great

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

Aaron Allston

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.