Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per

Jim Cummings

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Earl Woods

Playing Through: Straight Talk on Hard Work, Big Dreams, and Adventures with Tiger

Ryan Stasik

Playing live is what we do, It's an adventure for us as well as the audience.

Barry Lopez

What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live at moral peace with the universe?

C. S. Lewis

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Berkeley Breathed

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Richard Branson

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

Virgil

Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.

Nick Vitucci

Our fate rests in our own hands. And that's a good position to be in.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Big Pun

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

Ron Hawkins

Our research has shown that people are looking for a device designed exclusively for immersive reading.

David Wasserman

Our overriding goal is to unite the intent of the Hyde Park historic district design guidelines with our development vision.

David Boyer

Our medical staff has designed stretches for each of the jobs our people do.

Mark Jarvis

Oracle 8i is designed to be an Internet operating system.

Charles Baker

People here are really wedded culturally and emotionally to very rich plan designs relative to what you see in different parts of the country. They are just more expensive.

Charles Groat

Some of the reason levees aren't as high as they're designed to be is because they sink. We don't have a good enough handle on the rates of subsidence, and it doesn't subside everywhere at the same rate.

Harry Groves

Our team is designed for a meet like this. We have a strong team all around and should score well.

Philo

Our roadways are not designed for that kind of speed, ... Our roads are engineered for the purpose of 55 to 65 mph. Only racetracks are engineered and banked for that kind of speed.

Bill Gerstenmaier

Our system today is designed for a maximum of three to six crew, and for six just temporarily.