Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Horace

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

Larry Brown

He's the most improved player I think I've ever coached, and he's as good a kid as I've ever been around. He does things for our team to please me to a fault, but you get enough like that and we'll have some people cheering for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

Erica Jong

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Faith Ford

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

George Orwell

The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.

Gene Tierney

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

Garth Nix

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Frederick Douglass

From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

Frank Stella

What you see is what you see.

Fernando Pessoa

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

Ezra Taft Benson

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

Francesco Guicciardini

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Michael Vick

I wanted to give the fans something to cheer about. Just wanted to get the jitters out, and I didn't want to shortchange the fans or myself.

Nikolai Valuev

I'm more than happy with this. I worked 12 years for this moment. I'm used to booing. The crowd always cheers the short guy and I'm usually taller. I'm not thinking about being the first Russian heavyweight champion. I'm thinking about how to improve and win more titles.

James Blake

I'm from New York and I'm still the underdog. He's the favorite everywhere he goes. If I was in the stands I'd be cheering for him, too,

Flip Wilson

What you see is what you get.

Henry Miller

Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Michael Moore

As far as today is concerned, there has been no impact at all from the ban. Everybody is cheerful and supportive.

Probably more than likely there will be a whole pile of people just plastered to the TV and watching. We'll be sitting around the big screen, cheering and talking big.

William Butler Yeats

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.

The Olympics are not only about the medals -- it's also about sharing a very special experience with the people you love. I knew there was nothing she'd love more than to look into the stands to see all of us cheering her on.

Lord Byron

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest

Alex Rodriguez

So we're cheering for Canada, right? What's the spread?

Alex Rodriguez

So we're cheering for Canada, right? And they have to win by a lot? What's the spread?

Now, all week, our cheer has been 'Final Four'.

Compete! Compete!. Cheer for each other . . . Get better.

They're part of the SEC. We can cheer each other on, even though when the season starts, we hate each other.

James Moore

a taste of home and to cheer them up some.

They started winning points, and then they got momentum and got their teammates cheering them on. That was a great win for Anya and Rebecca.

Calvin Klein

always cheerful and the essence of grace, dignity and courage -- a fighter to the end.