Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Bill Shoemaker

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Bill Shankly

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

Bill Cosby

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

Bhagat Singh

Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.

Big Sean

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Kirk Ferentz

When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit.

Andrew Young

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)

B. F. Skinner

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Bill Hicks

I've said all that I've had to say.

Barry Long

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

Carol Burnett

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Brandon Sanderson

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Diane Keaton

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Dennis Hastert

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Albert Einstein

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!