Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Schock

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did,

Charlotte Bronte

Adversity is a good school.

Charles Dickens

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Charles Stanley

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

Charles Spurgeon

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Robert Redford

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Eliza Cook

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Tom Hougaard

There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street.

Bobby Wallace

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

Roy Harper

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Ricky Gervais

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.

Jeff Montgomery

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Tommy Amaker

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Scott Hodkinson

Whenever we play Lee you know they are going to bring some intensity with them. I was pleased with our effort.

Bree Larson

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it through.

Barry Ritholtz

When you see a 250-point spurt like that in less than two months, that's not sustainable. What this pullback is doing, and I think will continue to do, is bring us back to a more sustainable level.

Toba Beta

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Arthur Henderson

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Eric Close

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Carol Lee

We're having as much difficulty reaching (the disaster areas) as anyone, but we have eight trained people down there and several of our trucks are on their way with relief supplies.

Jim McCarthy

She just knew everybody, everybody knew her, and she'd line up all the election officials for those areas. That's going to be a big difficulty for us to replace her.

Robert Torricelli

She is universally known without the difficulties of organizing or raising funds,

George Fisher

Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches.

Wyndham Lewis

Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Wayne Johnson

When I'm thinking about the Nationals, I'm not even thinking about the $140,000. If I win the Nationals and they gave me a $140,000 check, that's when it would hit me.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Kevin Kinel

We set ourselves up really nice. All of our swims were monstrous. These guys didn't let anything get to them. We gave ourselves some good opportunities.

Thomas Steinbeck

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Elaine Sciolino

In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.

Kim Cattrall

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Leon Washington

We know he can do it. It's all about getting mentally prepared.

David Satcher

There is no health without mental health.

Erin Sullivan

We are going to look to perfect the little things. Make no mental mistakes.

Alain Prost

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Matthew Devost

Most sites that are doing e-commerce should have some kind of security statement with regard to how your transactions are secured.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

David Sanborn

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Brian Eno

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Jim Roberts

This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.

Gary Williams

We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of.

Herman Edwards

We're in a situation where time is of the essence,

Dennis Kavelman

We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got a sense of urgency because we're in a situation where we need to get wins on the road. We need to play well.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.