Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Caleb Colton

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Alan Watts

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Alan Watts

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Alan Hansen

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

Alan Bennett

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Alain Prost

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Alain Prost

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

Al Neuharth

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Al Pacino

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

We want the peace process to succeed. In order for it to succeed, you, Mr. Arafat, must move away from terrorism, shift this from a conflict process to a peace process. And then we're ready to engage diplomatically.

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Bob DuPuy

We want to stay in Washington. We're very pleased with the reception that people in Washington gave to the team. We're continuing to work with the mayor, we're continuing to work with the council and we're hopeful that we can get it done.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Jay Wright

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Chris Colfer

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Chogyam Trungpa

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Chogyam Trungpa

A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

We knew they would be tough in the singles matches so we knew we needed to win at least two doubles matches to have a chance. We won three and after that we really took their confidence down and we were able to pick up two more wins in singles play.

We knew they were going to play their hearts out. Before the game, they said they packed two suits. They were confident about going to Sunday. That right there should have shown us we needed to come to play.

Ronnie Brewer

We knew they were a guard oriented team. That's what made their team go. We knew if we could make their guys take tough shots, we could control the pace of the game and kind of shut them down on defense.

Jarome Iginla

We knew they'd raise their game. They're one of the top teams in the conference and we didn't match them after they started coming.

We laid down an ink trail to confuse the other runners." ()

We lacked heart, effort and passion, which really concerns me considering this was a huge league game for us and we did not show up wanting to win.