Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

Real Peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.

Martin Biron

Our main objective as a group was to respond to any adversity that we faced all year. That's where I think our major accomplishment was, we battled injuries, we battled people putting us down, we battled a dry spell a few weeks ago. So it may have surprised other people but we knew in our dressing room that we had character, leadership - a lot more maturity than we had two, three seasons ago.

Stephanie Ferlita

Starting off at the beginning of the season, that was one of our goals. With or without the adversity, that was always the team goal.

Vinny Testaverde

Somehow we just have to hold it together. Sometimes when you have adversity it brings along special moments in life. Hopefully this can be one of them.

Angele Davis

Our people are responding to adversity with steadfast determination, yet still maintaining the spirit to enjoy life.

Mike Schafer

Our team really hasn't faced much adversity at all this year, especially in the second half. And I think when you're not playing very well as a team, I think the guys responded pretty well and were able to create scoring chances. They kept at it in a tough rink to play in, and we got the tying goal and we were able to end up winning the game.

Billy Donovan

Our team battled through the adversity of the game. They battled through not shooting the ball, and we found a way, defensively, to win the game.

Paul Stephenson

Out of adversity comes progress. The water will be so clean it could be used for kidney dialysis.

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Plaxico Burress

Our offense has to go out and be crisp, be sharp. We have to do everything we can, not so much to pick up the defense, but to give us some momentum heading into the playoffs.

Samuel Butler

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Jerry Sloan

Maybe I'll have 12 captains, ... I've got a lot of things going on in my head with that right now.

LaVar Arrington

I might have to put my head up and keep them from rolling down. I might get a little emotional. It's been a long road.

Brendan Haywood

I might have got in his head a little bit.

Jason Giambi

I was all over the place then. I had been hit (by a pitch) in the head and had been doing so much work since spring training to try and make up for last year that I was just strung out. But I knew it would change.

Danielle Brown

I was mad. They already made one run that shouldn't have happened. But we put our heads together and picked up the defense. That's where everything starts.

Paul Reilly

I think there's an over-obsession with monthly numbers. We've now had two years in a row with over 2 million jobs added, and it looks like we're headed for a third year.

Nick Barnett

I think there would be a lot of support for him to be a head coach. If that's the route that Ted Thompson and the organization want to take, I'm sure there would be a lot of support for him.

Platen

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.

Jack Handey

Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.

Charles Spurgeon

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

Lauren Johnson

We have a real variety here and I think that is why residents like to come. This year there seemed to be more jewelry than anything else.

Dean Stanley

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

Trey Gowdy

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.

Adriana Trigiani

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

Jim Craig

The park is a jewel of the North County.

John Lemme

Live each day as if it's a precious Gift, because it is.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

Pema Chodron

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat, there would be nothing sad about time being limited.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

B. R. Ambedkar

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

B. R. Ambedkar

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

C. S. Lewis

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

C. S. Lewis

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

C. S. Lewis

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

Catullus

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Carl Sagan

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

Bill Vaughan

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

John Brain

We didn't play very well. It was an ugly win but we'll take the points.

Fred Taylor

You have to be concerned. We've been winning some ugly ones, but they count.

Darrell Royal

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Dante Alighieri

You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

Al Groh

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

Alice Childress

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Alexander McQueen

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

Donald Trump

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

David Byrne

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Carine Roitfeld

I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

James Jannard

Anyone who wears glasses can be an Oakley consumer.

Tarik Minor

Persistence wears out resistance, or at least that's what protesters say.

Johnny Gimble

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.