Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams

John C. Calhoun

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

Ferdinand Buisson

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

Nancy White

We didn't have much money, and we worked hard. Everything seemed normal. We did what kids do -- we conquered the world several times.

Noam Chomsky

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Italian Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

James Lane Allen

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

F. Sionil Jose

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

Marc Morial

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Cate Blanchett

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

Ludwig Borne

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

Scottie Somers

Love allows you to dream. Fear allows you to pursue your dreams.

Madame de Stael

Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Jamie Woodruff

Scout was very fearful of people at first. He's come so far, I'm so proud of him.

Pat McDonnell

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Ron Gardenhire

Maybe we can put some fear in them, They have a single-digit lead (over Cleveland) now, so you know they're starting to feel the effects. And that's half the battle, to see how people handle things.

Jack Michael

We had a nice day. It was pretty much a team effort. We were disqualified in the shuttle hurdles relay but scored pretty much in every other event.

Joe Girardi

Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.

Scott Nicklas

He may have pulled his (right) quad. We'll have to wait and see. (But) he pulled out of the hurdles and triple jump because he hurt it in the long jump.

John Berlin

It is a real stretch from the indoor 55 hurdles to the 100 and 300 outdoor hurdles. Right now we are just trying to get her timing down and conditioning up.

Rubin Carter

I know we still have some hurdles to cross. You just don't know what they're going to be.

Devan Downey

I'm so proud of our team. We have been through so much together. We overcame a lot of hurdles all year. Even tonight we didn't give any excuses.

Mark Bryant

The three hurdles that we had to get over this summer, we got over without incident.

Benn Steil

It's one significant step, but there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome.

Bill Warlick

It looks like the last hurdles are something they can get over here.

Alexandra Adornetto

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

Scott Bakula

My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd.

Steve Prefontaine

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Brian Calhoun

Obviously, I'm a running back and I wanted to play running back and they had different plans, which is fine. It was just time to split ways.

Marcel Shipp

When you're a running back on this team, you have to take that personal.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

Ludwig von Mises

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression.

Chris Crutcher

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

Chris Crutcher

I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.