Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard LeVine

The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers,

Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Elliott Abrams

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Dale T. Mortensen

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

Brian Thomas

We played well and to earn a berth to the state tournament is an outstanding achievement for this team. We've had an outstanding season and we deserve to be in the state tournament.

Kyle Whittingham

We prepared very well for them. I thought we would play well, but I didn't think that we would win like this. They're the 10th-ranked defense in the country and we put up over 500 yards on them. They're a very good football team and we were able to dominate them. It's quite an achievement for us.

Virginia Postrel

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.

Virat Kohli

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Lamar Alexander

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Jimmy Johnson

If you wreck enough people the old Dale Earnhardt idea will inevitably come into play. Get ready, because it's coming.

Jeff Krull

Inevitably in the project we find something we didn't anticipate.

Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Victor Shum

Because the surge in prices last week was so strong, inevitably there is profit-taking.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

David Roux

They're inevitably responding to a decades-long march of technology into this marketplace.

Courtney Eaton

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

Neil Schwartz

We prepare our players and we leave no stone unturned. We try to prepare them for every what-if.

Terence Winter

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

Wilson Alvarez

When I get in a game, I don't know what I'm going to do, ... I may cry. I may not cry. I don't know. ... I just want to get somebody out before I leave the game.

Valentino Rossi

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

Chris Powell

When 150,000 people leave at once, it's a challenge.

Josh Blaisdell

We are not pleased with the outcome, it leaves a real sour taste in our mouths. But it puts things in perspective.

Utu Langi

We're not going to leave this place until they come up with a plan for you folks.

Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

E. W. Howe

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

Fred Becker

Unfortunately, there are those who prey on the troops.

Todd Turner

They (the lenders) prey on the uninformed and uneducated.

Steven Seagal

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

Tyler Perry

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

Alan Cohen

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

James A. Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

John Owens

Unless you're going to under-developed part of the world, they're everywhere,

Chris Christiansen

Unless you're big enough, biometrics can become prohibitively expensive.

Brad Buckles

Unless you really know the product, you would not be able to tell.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.