Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Curt Schilling

The problem with hitters I think was they weren't sure who he (Pedro) wanted to hit. And he wasn't afraid to hit anybody.

Shane Smith

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.

Betty Friedan

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''

Those cracks show me I'm not the boss. But living on the fault also teaches you not to be afraid of every next moment, because you really can't live if you do.

John Travolta

Those are usually your better parts because you're not worried about the likeability, ... I think it's a great movie because of the idea that we're not afraid to be at moments unappealing and true to those people who are drinkers and are not always in the best mood. And they're often wicked. And they're sometimes emotional.

We are determined to bring a new audience to opera. If we don't, then I'm afraid the form will wither and die.

Brad Richards

We'll give it out best shot. We're not afraid of them.

We'll get back to work tomorrow and we'll understand that we'll have a team coming in that isn't worried about playing us. I don't think any team is going to come in concerned or afraid of playing us right now. We just have to find a way to scrap and claw out of this little hole ourselves.

Unfortunately, up to now, it has seemed that the Taiwan authorities are reluctant to talk about 'one China,' do not care to do so, and are afraid to do so,

Abigail Adams

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since

Who'd have thought I'd even get this far? But here I am. I'm now completely confident that I can walk the whole way. I'm almost afraid to stop walking.

Jack Hanna

We can't forget Pearl Harbor, but I'm afraid that we might. At one time we had some young people from some of the schools helping us out with the ceremony, and they didn't even know what Pearl Harbor was. That's so sad.

Mary Peters

We were very afraid of the dogs. I have a friend who was bit by one of the dogs trying to go over there to help.

We hope that we have the same amount of people, but we know a lot of people are afraid after what happened. But we will keep pushing.

Our big push right now is trying to get the housing that is not repairable moved away so people can rebuild. We're afraid the longer that takes, the more discouraged people are getting.

Riverside can flat shoot. They've got about four or five guys who can light it up. And none of them are afraid to take it.

It does not lead anywhere. We are not afraid of litigation, only the effects of litigation.

Bobby Bowden

I think if I got out of coaching, I'd find another job somewhere. If I didn't, I'm afraid I'd die on the vine somewhere.

I think he's popular in the coaching community because he is different. You've got a guy here who's not afraid to do what he wants and doesn't care what anybody thinks. I think sometimes they think he's crazy, but crazy like a fox.

Spike Dykes

I think he's popular in the coaching community because he is different, ... You've got a guy here who's not afraid to do what he wants and doesn't care what anybody thinks. I think sometimes they think he's crazy, but crazy like a fox.

Elliot Morley

We should have an open mind about the kind of levers that we apply and not be afraid to think the unthinkable.

We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.

Lynda Carter

was afraid of not living up to what people thought I was.

We are very oversubscribed to both Thursday and Friday of this series so I'm afraid we cannot accommodate you this week.

Scott Johnson

We had our opportunities in the first half. We didn't make the most of them, let Italy back in the game and then got too afraid to lose to play the rugby.

We went to every game because we were afraid that somebody wouldn't have an inhaler there when he needed it.

We went out there and needed to prove that we were Florida State and we were the ones that everybody was going to be afraid of and one of us was going to go out there and hit you in the mouth. We gave it all we had. We said we were going to punish the ball carrier any time we could get a chance.

Eric Norris

We went leaps and bounds with the program, last year, ... I'm kind of surprised we had so much growth this year. I was afraid it would plateau.

We have eight players who have all played an important role for us. We aren't afraid to use anyone, and when they are in there they contribute.

George Foreman

I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.

George Foreman

When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.

We couldn't hang onto the ball. I'd say a good portion of our turnovers were unforced errors. The ball came right to us and it dribbled right off our hands. I don't know if that's being afraid of them coming at us, but that's something we definitely have to work on, just being in more control and stronger with the ball on offense.