Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Kevin Pietersen

We're not convinced with the way we've played, our one-day performance needs consistency.

Rusty Wallace

Let's not forget we've already had a pretty incredible season, and that shouldn't go unnoticed. We still have plenty of time to win a race or races, but our team deserves a lot of credit for the consistency we've had.

Kim Whitney

Last year, we were strong in hitting and consistency. We see a lot of that again. We seem to have a lot of players that work well together. There's more of a team effort.

Mike Yancheff

Scoring points is the big thing for us right now. We need better consistency and execution in our running game or else we will continue to have problems.

Chris Saunders

Sean Miller's been shooting 80, 80 and 81. That's consistency, but it's not in the 70s.

Rick Foster

One key is how I handle the pitching staff and get the consistency at the plate. I feel our defense will be there, but we will need timely hits.

Terry Kent

Now that the medley has qualified we have three relays qualified for the state. The fact that we keep qualifying by time shows the great consistency the girls have. It speaks about the girls' effort and their work ethic.

Dallas Clark

Next question. One-hundred sixteen? That's a lot of games. It shows you his consistency, his dependability. He's always there, always ready to play.

Brian Barnhart

The primary reasons for the compacted schedule are momentum and consistency.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Donna Air

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Dalai Lama

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Cole Younger

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity