Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Williams

Whenever Mr. Johnson sent out flowers of condolence, he asked for red roses more often than not.

Dan Simmons

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

William Shakespeare

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

William Shakespeare

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

William Shakespeare

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

William Shakespeare

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Donna Shalala

We believe we should keep going. We're telling a story about excellence, about going from being very good to extraordinary.

E. B. White

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Chanakya

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Charles Sanders Peirce

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Charles Hodge

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Neville Isdell

We've arrested the decline, and we're making progress.

David Berkowitz

We're making very good progress, but we're not stopping there. We're working with manufacturers to reduce fat and sodium in things like salad dressing ... and we're going to continue to work to make the food taste as good as it can taste.

Gary Roberts

We're making some real progress. We didn't have our best game but we battled hard and found a way to win, and that's what we need to do down the stretch.

Jim Bunning

We're making progress on resolving the concerns of a few senators,

Dan Cohen

We're making progress on K Street because the times they are a-changing.

Stephen Hadley

We're making progress, but we're not yet there.

Alberto Bianchetti

We're making good progress. Most of the work will be done by Tuesday, but we will be working on Wednesday.

David Scurto

We're making excellent progress. It was a very informative meeting and it was good for us to be able to hear from residents that live in both the north and south ends of the city. It was very interesting to hear what they had to say.

Roy McCauley

We're making a lot of progress in our intermediate track program. At Atlanta we had, at worst, a top-five car, but got crashed while running third.