Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Rutherford

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Samuel Rutherford

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Rutherford

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

Samuel Johnson

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Samuel Johnson

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

Samuel Johnson

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

Sarah Paulson

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

Robert Greene

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.

Robert Greene

Win through your actions, never through argument.

Robert B. Parker

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

Rob Kardashian

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

Ricki Lake

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

Ricky Jay

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

Ricky Carmichael

I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race.

Rickey Henderson

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

Richard M. Nixon

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Rebecca Pidgeon

If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Richard Saunders

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Richard Rorty

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Richard Gasquet

I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.

Richard Gere

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

Red Auerbach

Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.

Robert Doisneau

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

Robert Duvall

Everybody likes to win.

Ritchie Blackmore

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

River Phoenix

People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They`ll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you`re spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I`m kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I`m about.