Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Studd

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.

Charles Stanley

You may have the gift of giving.

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Jonathan Vilma

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

Jeff Lowell

The point of the sport is to try to peak at the end of the season, and our guys did that today.

Kelly Green

We are always playing for something. We told our guys that we need to get better and that's what we did.

Jon Clark

We started out with a lot of expectations and we didn't meet some of those. The guys will always remember the last stand and will be proud of it.

Jason Treutelaar

We struggled to score and that has been the issue for this team the whole season. We need guys to step up and knock down shots. When we get good, open looks, we need to make the shots, and we're not doing that right now.

Lute Olson

There are some guys you have to kick in the butt to get the response you want. There are some you need to pat on the back. He's one you need to pat on the back.

Joe Becerra

There are some guys here who could play in the NBA.

Edward Atorino

There are some deep-pocketed guys who want to own newspapers.

Gary Player

When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.

Kathy Harper

We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from the lap belt, to thoracic injuries from the shoulder belt.

John Chandler

With no rain, it was like playing on concrete. We haven't had any injuries - this was a preventative measure.

Roy McFarland

We're getting injuries left, right and centre. It seems we're struggling to get 11 on the field.

Lee Campbell

We're banged up. We've had injuries in the past, but the kids have been able to suck (it) up, or they haven't been major injuries and the kids have been able to play.

Ken Holland

With the new CBA, injuries are really going to take a toll on teams even more than before.

Chuck Froehlich

Shaler has a nice team. They have the same problems as us with the injuries and such, and they overcame them.

Sarah Cox

Most organized sports-related injuries (about 62 percent) occur during practices rather than games.

Gordon Eakin

We played a lot of players that we usually don't play because of injuries in the second game, but I'm disappointed that we couldn't pull of the second win.

Ron Polk

Maybe with all the injuries we've had on offense, (the pitchers) have been pressing and trying to do more.

Derrick Jensen

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Seth Godin

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Calvin Klein

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Sonya Boralv

We don't have other announcements of any other hotspots. At this point, we're testing these limited locations.

Siri Hustvedt

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Charles Dickens

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Charles Stuart Calverley

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

Charles Stanley

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Alan Moore

I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

China Mieville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

Dave Barry

Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.

Dave Barry

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Alan Arkin

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Megan Wing

We want to think about it, see how much we miss it.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Mitchell

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Romeo Miller

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

Rory Bremner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Marcello Canuto

Site Q was proposed to be in one place, then in another place. There were all these candidates, but none of them really panned out.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Ken Starr

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Catherine Fisher

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Andre Agassi

has probably come on a little quicker than anticipated.

Kenny Anderson

I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.

Darrell Royal

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

Valerie Brown

The quicker we get a rail option, the better off we'll be because rail will get us off the roads,

Billy Burke

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Tom DeLay

We all know what this is about. The quicker it's over the better.

Jay Wright

We are smaller than them, but we are quicker and we have depth. When we speeded it up, I thought that was to our advantage.

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

Mariano Rivera

Tomorrow? We have to go there and do it, ... Don't worry, I'll be ready for tomorrow.

Cliff Lusk

We're sitting there on go, ready to respond if we have to.

Larry Southard

We're sitting on a ticking time bomb. This town is ready to ignite.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.

Tamara Ecclestone

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Moira Kelly

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.