Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Charles Buxton

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Dean Koontz

... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Tom Watson

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

Todd Solondz

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

Dan Boone

She was rescued by her neighbors and hospitalized. Friends accompanied her during surgery and contributed blood. Her recovery took several months. She didn't let bitterness hold her back. She resumed teaching and studying international affairs.

Edith Cavell

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Victoria Osteen

Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Michael Strahan

I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Greg Biffle

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

Jarvis Herring

We've always been known as a soft program, a finesse program -- all about speed, whatever. We're just trying to go out and show everybody this isn't the Gators that you're used to looking at. We're trying to show them that we're really tough and that we're really going to go out and play.

Gaylord Perry

Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out that He's wearing pinstripes.

Sathya Baba

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Anne Donovan

Sheryl finds a way to help her team win a game, and it doesn't necessarily have to do with scoring.

Kathy Mattea

Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here.

Frank Cacckello

She was reincarnated tonight. A player of her talent finds a way to play through the pain.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She's just a tough little kid and she finds a way to win.

Debbie Ball

She's got to be one of the most organized high school students. She finds a way to do everything.

Nikki Sixx

I have a wonderful assistant. I tell her I need four amputees and a midget, and she finds them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Phil Nevin

Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.

Maria Bamford

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Campbell Newman

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Edward Gardner

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Bill Nye

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernard Lagat

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

Bill Wilkinson

We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to make them more like motorists. Bicyclists have shown they don't want this. What cyclists repeatedly tell us they do want is more safe places to ride, and it is time we listened to that message.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Viggo Mortensen

there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

Chris Cleave

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Bill McKibben

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.