Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Hailee Steinfeld

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

Gwendoline Christie

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Steve Pearson

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade position.

Scott Brown

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

John Winters

By engaging in this illegal protest they are sanctioning an illegal strike that is undermining the rule of law by openly defying our province's highest legal authority, the B.C. Supreme Court.

Mark McKinnon

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

Jack Straw

In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

Fidel Castro

also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.

Ted Cruz

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Campbell Scott

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Felipe Roque

Never before, as in the last 18 months, was the blockade enforced with so much viciousness and brutality,

Tim Michener

Only a police officer can enforce handicapped rules. She has no permission to enforce handicapped rules.

Dave Brat

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.

Tamar Jacoby

We're trying to replace a nudge-nudge, wink-wink system of unrealistic laws that don't get enforced with realistic laws that can be enforced.

Tom Rasmussen

We would never have the manpower to enforce something like that.

Jim Gray

We need to enforce the laws that are existing. But I am acknowledging the big influence workers have on our economy.

Janet Reno

We are going to try to enforce it in a way that is fair, firm and prompt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Charles Lamb

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Edmund Burke

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

James Weldon Johnson

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

Ben Wallace

There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

David Millar

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Chuck Hatfield

We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students).

Newt Gingrich

When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'

Nick Flynn

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

Lauren Worsham

I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that.

Norman Mineta

We're not going to lose sight of safety,

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Kimberly Schneider

We are taking samples to our testing facilities. Subsequent tests have indicated it's not a nerve agent.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Amy Heckerling

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Steve Bisley

I think if you hold your nerve and don't sell out and become something that you're not, you can go anywhere. You know, I think that sort of heart and honesty and size travels.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Brian Dawkins

The questions you have are the things we just have to go play through,

Scott Anderson

The questions will be, who can have at that resource?

Aaron Miles

There are a lot of questions around here.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Patrik Elias

Would we rather play a team with Jagr or without Jagr? Yeah. We'd rather play without Jagr.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Bill Richardson

We want to resolve this diplomatically, but we are not ruling out any option.

Javad Zarif

We want to resolve it through negotiations. But we want to resolve it with our rights intact.

Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

Arthur Phillips

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Mitchel McLaughlin

If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.

Jeff Koons

We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down.

Robert Williams

When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere.

Richard Kaplan

We have very little tolerance on this, ... While they're doing what they need to do, we are doing what we need to do. We're not resting until this is resolved with or without First Student.

Henry Mazurek

We will resolve it. Whatever time it takes.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

Joe Biden

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

Ayad Allawi

Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein,

H. Hart

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Joseph Cirincione

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.