Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brigham Young

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Mark Hayes

We played with a lot of heart. We have faced a lot of adversity and injuries, but heart and pride have been our trademarks.

Bobby Crosby

We pretty much needed to sweep, best-case scenario. But we're still in it. We still have a shot. We've got to take the next three and hope for the best. ... We've dealt with so much adversity this year, I don't think you can count us out.

Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Frank Cilluffo

We have limited resources, unlimited vulnerability, and a flexible adversary. There are many cities that can make a good justification, but our limited resources have to be spent wisely.

Jill Pendley

We are not defined by our trials,but by how we face them.We are all afraid; bravery is a choice,that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.

Kin Hubbard

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Benjamin Franklin

When the Well's dry, we know the Worth of Water.

Paul Dergarabedian

We still have to acknowledge that we're down.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Bob Schieffer

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Bob Schieffer

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

Bayard Taylor

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Brit Hume

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

Elmer Davis

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Karrie Webb

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Miranda Hart

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Jerry Sloan

We didn't really seem to have any life.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.