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.

Robert Toombs

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

Mitchel McLaughlin

Let's make this new experiment work, ... Let's give it more than eight weeks. Let's demonstrate to those who are skeptical that we can work together.

Michael Campbell

Let the golfing gods take their toll. Kiwis don't surrender, not until the fat lady sings. Eighteen holes is still a lot of holes to play and I'll be giving it 110 per cent.

Ray Harper

Lorenzo Gordon, Dennis Pease and Rory Green. We don't play seven or eight now. We had guys starting then that don't even play now.

Larry Young

Last year seven of our eight losses were by one goal. With experience they're the ones we expect to win this year.

Jessica Rowe

Last year Peter was away for eight months. We make the most of the time we have together.

Mike Wahle

Scoring three points and giving up eight sacks wasn't going to get the job done. As an offense, we were excited to come here and get another shot at these guys. We felt we were better than we showed last time.

Torii Hunter

Seven or eight home runs. He's got like 12 at-bats with eight shots.

E. P. Thompson

Seth has really been on a roll for us lately. He's gone 7-1 in his last eight matches.

Debra Winger

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Eleanor Porter

I love different folks.

Dirk Benedict

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Aaron Eckhart

There are different reasons to make movies.

Alexander Wang

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Aberjhani

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.