Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stanley

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Spurgeon

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Sharpton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Al McGuire

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

George Galloway

We want to take the fight to the enemy.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

D. James

We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We warmed up and got the sweat and everything going in the anticipation of the match only to have to wait another half-hour until kickoff.

Charlie Lane

We started off slow with some tough matches in the first round. We got better as we went.

Jerry McSwords

We were a match away from making it look a little more respectable.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Ron Hutchins

We're going to take it one match at a time.

Andre Agassi

When we got done with that match I said he's a top-10 player,

Jennifer Barretta

Usually, for me, when I get through that first match the nerves go away and I can get into a groove.

Daniel Maly

We're in the same boat. I think we match up with them pretty well. It's going to come down to whoever executes the best.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Gwynne Shotwell

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

David Beckham

So it is going to put a lot of strain on my back.

Winston Churchill

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Myrtle Reed

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Jon Lea

It just takes a lot of the stress and strain off the water supply.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Bryant Young

We're struggling to get back to where we were years ago. It's a cycle.

Dwyane Wade

We know we can win. That's what we're all here for. . . . This is my third year here and it's like it's my third different team, but we can win.

Lenny Clark

We're not disappointed at all. Third place is good.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Charles Spurgeon

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

David Icke

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Denis Waitley

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Deborah Harkness

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

Bill O'Reilly

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

Chang-Rae Lee

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Bob Saget

I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the Full House house.' It literally was a drive-by. I photobombed the Full House house yesterday. I took like 20 pictures because I thought I didn't look good in any of these - you can't see the house! You gotta really show that that's the house!

Edgar Lee Masters

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

Barbara Tuchman

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.