Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rig Veda

The one who is first and possessed of wisdom when born; the god who strove to protect the gods with strength; the one before whose force the two worlds were afraid because of the greatness of his virility, he, O people, is Indra.

Jonathan Cohen

We've almost now hit a point of almost buying panic where investors are afraid not to be in the Internet sector, given how strong it's performed recently,

Beth Jones

We've all been pitching in. People aren't afraid of hard work, but they're a lot of demands for time.

Richard Veerman

We are afraid the outbreak is out of control. Cholera was already spreading at a very fast rate. Yesterday it started raining, which will only make it more difficult to stop the epidemic.

Tokio Furuta

We are afraid the government's lack of urgency may result in a delay in anti-deflation measures it has said it would come up with by the end of this month.

Andrew To

We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.

Aaron Devencenzi

West Nile Virus is here to stay. It's not something to be afraid of, but something to be concerned with.

Jim Dooley

When you've got a player like Morris you are always in the game. What makes him so (good) is that he is not afraid to miss. You have guys that don't want to take the shot because they are afraid they will mess up, but (Morris) is not.

Toby Bickel

We have to get her into game shape. She was on crutches last week. I wasn't sure how far I wanted to push. She's not afraid to go to the basket and at that point we needed it.

Patrick Arney

We started passing better in the second half. After we got through the initial part of the game, we started playing better. We had our opportunities. (The Lady Bulldogs) played well and have nothing to be ashamed of.

Melvin Ely

We were ashamed we came on the court like that. We are a better team than we showed.

Abbas Kiarostami

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

Benjamin Franklin

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Anthony Trollope

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

Steve Snyder

We're not ashamed to charge $10 to $15 a head for our game. We have a great track record.

Trey Parker

We're not ashamed of our bodies, ... This event is the most important thing in the world.

John Atkinson

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.

Stephen Baker

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Steve Kernkraut

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

Marty DeJarnette

We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.

Francis Bacon

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Brad Wilson

We don't have any details on what caused it,

Toni Atkins

What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.

Bob Hofman

We gutted it out. We had a poor first half. But we played a lot better in the second half. We really picked up on defense and caused a lot of turnovers.

Mark Davis

Union Pacific apologizes for the inconveniences caused to Texarkana. Our hearts go out to the family that lost a person as a result of the derailment.

William Comanor

U.S. Steel was a continual drag on the economy for the next 50 years and caused substantial harm,

Chris Goutman

We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.

Max Sydow

There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.

Jim Rash

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

Connie Willis

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.

Li Bingbing

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

Lee Bermejo

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

David Storey

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

Carter G. Woodson

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Colin Powell

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

Michael Dawidziak

Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out.

Norby Williamson

When he expressed to us that he was considering retirement, we repeatedly tried to convince him otherwise, but completely respect his decision.

Natasha Trethewey

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

John Culp

Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Ned Lathrop

We're finding roadblocks because they have a cookie-cutter mentality to producing buildings. How successful we'll be (in convincing them) is still up in the air, and we can't force them to do this, but we hope to convince them through the power of persuasion.

Kate Klise

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

Jules Verne

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Byron Katie

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Nathan Taylor

We started off slow, but we're finding ourselves in each and every game.

Arne Jacobsen

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Diablo Cody

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Dick Clark

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

C. S. Lewis

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Errol Morris

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

M.I.A.

I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

Kevin Arquit

What they presumably need to do today is come up with something that is realistic enough and acknowledges enough of the judge's finding that he takes the proposal seriously.

Michael Musto

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Scott Nicklas

We're more experienced this season. Also, we have some new additions who have helped us.

Jay Parmeter

What helped is the suppliers all wanted to showcase their products.

Kathy Burns

We got to walk up the hill for Martin Luther King. He helped people become what they are today.

Rodney Atkins

If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

Isabella Rossellini

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Kris Benson

Making one mistake instead of two helped me,

Jon Hogenson

Making it to the second day shows our kids we can do this. Playing in that competitive level helped us.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Yuvraj Singh

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

Scott Wilson

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

Dave Barry

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Cary Grant

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Condoleezza Rice

The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.

William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Bob Newhart

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Rafael Benitez

When the others see how much he runs they will know they have competition.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Kazeronnie Mak

Nothing is difficult, if one can overcome with it !

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Manmohan Singh

If we work together, we can overcome these problems,

Shane Jabaar

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

Chad Bankston

We're young right now and we're trying to overcome some of that. We just weren't able to punch it in down in the red zone.

Michael Cole

Yeah, they're good. It will be another challenge. But if we play well, we can overcome it.

Carlos Parreira

We should have played better, especially in the first half, but we were able to overcome our difficulties.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Simon Crisford

She had a lot of little problems in the winter and then more in the spring,

Aguri Suzuki

Since we launched the team in a short period, assorted problems are rising and there are many things that should be solved.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

S. E. Hinton

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Tracy McMillan

Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

Charlie White

As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it.

Jimmy Cliff

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

Joan Van Ark

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

Rhonda Britten

Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Billy Joel

She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.

Gary Scelzi

I have chills. I've been wound up all week.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

John Eldredge

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Paul Dergarabedian

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.