Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Gorbachev

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

Randy Houser

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Martin Luther

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Lech Walesa

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Benjamin Franklin

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Juvenal

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Juvenal

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

Lisa Ray

But we can't deploy everything. We would have to use prudence in how we share our resources.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

John Heywood

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.