Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Simon

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Rick Pitino

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

Yasuhiro Matsumoto

Toyota always uses conservative figures so it can make sure it achieves the goals it sets. Toyota will soon catch up with GM next year just by growing at its current pace.

James Salter

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.

Rig Veda

When a person does not adhere to rules he fails to perform his duties properly but a disciplined person definitely achieves success. Only should therefore lead a disciplined life.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl."Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro

E. Hicks

I have always tried to put in place a system and a group of employees that work and 'get the job done' no matter what. While we are not perfect, I think the organization achieves that end. My goal now is to continue to improve and keep it that way.

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

J. Taylor

We're in an information age, yet from a public notification perspective, we're still ... in the Stone Age,

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

William Wordsworth

With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free.

Paul Sereno

We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

Dr. Cykiert

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Ed Fox

We're father and son. When I was his age, I did the same things. I got caught for things. I never got caught as many times as he did, but I had trouble in school.

Evan Hendricks

Ultimately, it's a human rights issue in the information age.

Goldie Hawn

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Galit Chait

We want to skate our best. I hope to skate well and give our best performance here in this competition.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Gretchen Rubin

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Wendee Saintsing

Walker hit crucial shots. She got everybody going. She ignited us offensively and defensively. We were able to find a groove and get focused.

Jack Canfield

In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

Mike Mills

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

Stanley B. Prusiner

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

Ashwin Sanghi

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.

Ewen Bremner

Whatever I do, it's crucial to me that I give it 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if it's a short film, stage, theatre, TV or blockbuster. It doesn't matter what level of budget or prestige it is.

Tony Mowbray

When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

Sam Allardyce

We have signed Oscar to strengthen numbers in the crucial midfield area.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Audrie Pattenn

The plane tickets were $1,100 (each). Right now the hardest part is paying all of that off.

Justin Timberlake

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.

Thomas Jane

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Michelle Perry

We tried our hardest out here. We know what's on the line, and we want to be able to meet St. Thomas.

Rhonda Smith

We have probably two or three spots open right now. That is mostly with the outfield because the infield is pretty well set. The outfield is pretty much up for grabs so it'll be whoever works the hardest and we feel wants it the most.

Anne Paulk

Leaving homosexuality was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Gene Collins

Sharon Wilson is one of the hardest workers in Ector County. It's a shame what has happened.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Benjamin Walker

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Andrew Flintoff

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

Richard Donnell

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Tim Finchem

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.