Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Troutt

That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.

Houssaye Houssaye

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

John Powell

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

William Shakespeare

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

William Shakespeare

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Alan Greenspan

The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.

Alan Greenspan

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms,

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Carl Hiaasen

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Carolyn Wells

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Brendan Coyle

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

Kim Gordon

I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.

Kate Bush

I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

Kapil Sharma

I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

Bill Maher

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight...

Bob Newhart

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Alan Green

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

William Shakespeare

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Pauline Neville-Jones

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.

Peter Russell

We need to be a lot quicker in forming our defence and a lot more assertive when we go in for the tackle,

Kris Draper

Here at the Joe, guys are getting used to the speed and the body positioning. Teams that can skate and have a good defence will be a step ahead. You won't have any choice to open up. But this is going to be a huge adjustment and it won't happen overnight.

Nolan Richardson

I believe very much in winning with defence and I try to get my players to compete hard on defence to win the games.

Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

John Amery

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.