Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italian Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

Bob Taft

Let us walk in the shoes of those who went before us, and conquer the third frontier on whose threshold we stand today.

Virgil

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

Charles Eastman

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Thomas Campbell

Ye are brothers, ye are men, / And we conquer but to save.

Tom McMillan

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Edgar O'Shaughnessy

One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.

Jean Stafford

She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.

Dave Chappelle

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Alan Grayson

Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture is greed.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?

James Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, at some point -- at some point -- there must be closure,

E. P. Thompson

It is not unknown for gentlemen to come in and purchase two of the same items.

Garry Houston

True gentlemen. I've had a very special time.

William Shakespeare

Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Dave Murphy

We have a hard time keeping up with these older gentlemen.

Denis Waitley

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Billie Joe Armstrong

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Will Montgomery

Man, I'd like to lose about 50 pounds.

Lillian Hellman

You lose your manners when you are poor

Ben Wallace

There ain't nothing to worry about, because you're going to win some and you're going to lose some.

Sandra Gordon

The people of New Orleans have lost so much; we don't want to lose this.

Barbara Park

Our nannas are losers.

Tim Henman

One of us is going to win and one of us is going to lose but it won't be the be-all and end-all.

David Bryant

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

David Bryant

Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

David Bryant

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.

David Brainerd

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

David Brainerd

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

David Brainerd

In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....

David Brainerd

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

David Brainerd

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

David Brainerd

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

E. P. Thompson

For some reason, we play better on the road. Some of our wins are ugly, but we don't care.

Aaron Brown

I was nervous, ... And you think about Utah, and all the wins they've had, it makes you more nervous. But I did what I had to do.

Gino Guyer

You know, it's going to happen. I'm not going to worry too much. We're getting wins and right now we're in first place and that's all that matters.

Mike Vrabel

We got to 10 wins and I still think there are things we need to tighten up.

Baba Kalyani

In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.

David Bowens

That's good. Now, we've just got to get him the wins that count.

Jim Boeheim

This is one of the best, if not the best, wins we've ever had at Syracuse.

Angelo Johnson

It was important. It's one of the wins we need to try and make districts.

Mark Walters

I think about getting the wins to put us atop of the conference. That overshadows everything else.