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.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Frank Arnesen

Many clubs like him and this is normal, he is big lad, left footed and has a lot of experience even though he is only 21.

Robin Birley

My father has never really had time for children, ... My mother encouraged us to be pretty naughty. We used to go to Dad's clubs all the time when we were little but, to be honest, he was busy. Our mother was much more sociable then, but not so much now.

Chris Cornell

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

Charles Portis

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

Dave Collins

I can't imagine all the clubs in the division continuing to play under .500. But stranger things have happened.

Scott Boras

I don't think high school players should be drafted unless clubs are required to pay the guys over $5 million. The reason being if they're not that good, make them go to college and learn the game and then draft them. But if you draft a high school player you have to guarantee his future. And if the player is not that good the team won't take the risk. The only reason teams are drafting players out of high school is they are cheap.

Richard Francis Burton

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Matt Kuchar

I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.

Jim Shuping

Sex-oriented clubs have no place in our school system, gay or straight. They are disrespectful and disruptive to our educational process.... We need to take a step back from this and take control of our schools.