Famous Quotes & Sayings

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Abraham Lincoln

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Abraham Lincoln

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Allen Klein

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Allan Bloom

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Ann Landers

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Andy Cohen

Just go with your gut and communicate.

Andy Andrews

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

Andy Andrews

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

Andy Andrews

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

We are not predicting that the rating phenomenon will remain as high as it was, but nevertheless we did bring in substantial advertising revenue from it. We believe that the show is still and will continue to be strong.

We are not maxed out. We definitely have skills to add and things to polish. It's a long road to November.

We are not interested in looking at those revenues as new, additional spending for the state of Iowa.

We are not in debt. We've have paid all our local creditors. We're debt-free and ahead. And admission will be free again this year, even though it takes about $650,000 to put on this festival.

We are not going to reveal what the drinks are right now, but in regard to Martian Colony we can say it will be Green and the Marty and Artie drink will be health conscious. Child obesity is big issue today and when you drink the Martian Colony drink, we think you will be out of this world. Hat Trick beverage will release additional details in the coming weeks and we are hoping to unveil the Martian Colony drink first by the end of spring, and the Marty and Artie drink in conjunction with the DVD release for the Winter Holiday Season.

We are not going to agree to (Pathway's) adoption unless we have at least what we do now.

We are not defined by our trials,but by how we face them.We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.

We are not concerned and are ready for everything, ... not effective. What interests us is cooperation. We advise Europe to withdraw its threats.

Lisa Kristine

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Kim Gordon

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

Kirk Cameron

Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.

Kin Hubbard

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Kate Adie

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

Kary Mullis

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

Karl Pilkington

I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. But in reality, you're stuck on a boat that's bobbing up and down, you feel sick, the whale isn't there on demand.

Keith Coogan

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Kate Bernheimer

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

Kate Bernheimer

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

Karrie Webb

I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.