Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

William Butler Yeats

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

William Butler Yeats

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

William Butler Yeats

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

Wilhelm Steinitz

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

Will Arnett

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

Will Arnett

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

Wilhelm Reich

See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!

Wilhelm Reich

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Walter Scott

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Walter F. Mondale

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

Walter F. Mondale

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

Walter Isaacson

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

Walter Isaacson

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Vladimir Putin

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

William Katt

Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

Yohan Blake

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

Yitzhak Rabin

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yogi Berra

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

Yogi Berra

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

Winona Ryder

I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

Winona Ryder

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Winston Churchill

Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Winston Churchill

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Winston Churchill

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

Winston Churchill

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Winston Churchill

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Willie McCovey

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

Willie Mays

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

Willie Aames

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

William Zinsser

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief