Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Foley

She's gone out of her way to nurse an image that's more than just an antagonist of Fidel Castro. To her credit, she's been very effective and holds a valued opinion on a diverse range of topics.

Geoff Johns

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

Paul Haggis

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

Edmund Burke

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

Edmund Burke

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

Robert Z'Dar

People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.

Ravi Zacharias

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

French Proverbs

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Mike Mastroianni

Making the playoffs last year is a huge part of our success this season. We played very well the second half of the season and managed to get in as the fourth-place team. I think that was really the beginning.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Karen Coyle

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.

Paul Biancardi

Second half turnovers really did us in. I think that was the real difference.

David Wood

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

Larry Niven

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Publilius Syrus

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims

Luc de Clapiers

Few maxims are true in every respect.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Scottish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.