Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language

Shlomo Avineri

Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible.

Mike Mansfield

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

Dennis Potter

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Dennis Ritchie

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Bart Stupak

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

Elizabeth Bowen

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...

Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Jacques Rogge

show us that sport unites by overriding national, political, religious and language barriers.

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Diane Keaton

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

Brian Tracy

Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.

Robert Rosenberg

There are obstacles here that are artificial. There?s really no reason why it should be taking this long,

Alan Taylor

He truly is one of the most optimistic persons that I think I've ever been around. It's amazing, with all the disabilities and obstacles that he's had to overcome, that he's remained so positive.

Daphne Koller

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Fabrizio Moretti

(Even) if this record bombs, it's just another obstacle we have to get over.

Fidel Castro

There have been nothing but obstacles and difficulties of all kinds,

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Brian Higgins

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Charles Spurgeon

I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

Charles R. Swindoll

Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that, He uses us. He melts us in relationships. He molds us in the pursuit and the direction of His will. He fills us with power and the perseverance to keep at it. He uses as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. Ask the Spirit of God to use you, just as you are, with the gifts and abilities that He's given you. Secure in the confidence that God is in control of your life, you will be free to serve Him with joy and effectiveness.

Elbert Hubbard

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Earl Nightingale

Perseverance is another word for faith!

Dave Ramsey

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

Abdul Kalam

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Abraham Lincoln

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Abigail Adams

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Lao Tzu

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Alexandra Picavet

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.

Evan Spiegel

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Prince Royce

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

David Walton

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

Bruce Johnston

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

David Smith

We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland, ... We sang from 8 a.m. until 3 a.m. Since then we've sung them all again, but we've taken it a little easier.

Christopher Lee

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Michelle Kwan

I actually prefer soothing music - and maybe that's the skater in me.