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.

Chris Evans

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

Diane Kruger

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Dennis Prager

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Dean Kamen

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Alan Cohen

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Charles de Lint

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

David D. Burns

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Cesar Romero

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Tom Burns

Sean tends to keep his hands down, but when he keeps them up he?s nasty. It?s a little habit we?re trying to get him out of. Today he played very well.

George Bernard Shaw

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

Charles Portis

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Dick Van Dyke

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Michael Redhill

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Steve Wagner

Some of it has to do with habitat loss, urban sprawl taking away places where people used to hunt. And people just don't have time.

Lex Turner

Sister Jude was one of the older ones, she always wore her habit. Never saw her without it.

Stephen Covey

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Jean Krejca

We don't know how long they live, what kind of habitat they prefer, how many offspring they have, or how sensitive they are to human disturbance. There's still so much to learn.