Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles E. Wilson

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Charles Dickens

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

Charles Caleb Colton

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Charles Dickens

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Simmons

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Charles Simmons

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Mac Gifford

There is no doubt in my mind after seeing the Southern Miss match, West Virginia match, and even the Troy match, there is a lot of fight and determination in this team. And if they are healthy they can (win).

Dianne Feinstein

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

Dexter Fletcher

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Tom Whalen

We've still got a long way to go, and there's a lot we can improve on, but any time you get a shutout, you have to be happy with it.

Joe Cole

When I'm playing regularly, I feel happy and that's when I get my strength and power to go past someone, which is so important to me,

Brian Wilson

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

Brian Wilson

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Doyle Geddes

Ultimately, we were very happy with the second half.

Byron Katie

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

Buddy Valastro

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

Jane Seymour

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Michael Robinson

The process has been enjoyable, but at the same time, there is so much uncertainty. One day people are telling you you'll go in the second round. Next day people will say second day.

Ricky Gervais

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Bram Cohen

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Djuna Barnes

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Dhani Jones

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Chris McCray

We know we have to sharpen up a lot. We've got to play smarter and not make stupid passes." ()

Bob Dylan

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

Mitchell Baker

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Brian Billick

I think Marvin would have been the smarter hire, but I'm biased,

William Dugan

We're a lot smarter now than we were in 1999 and 2000.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Kevin Heath

I'm a lot smarter than I was a year ago.

John McCamant

The Swiss are much smarter than American pharmaceutical firms.