Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Tom Rath

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

H. Tejomayananda

Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Yiddish Proverbs

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

African Proverb

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery

Suzanne Pleshette

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.

David Hume

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Baroness Orczy

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Audre Lorde

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.

Dennis Banks

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Alain Badiou

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain de Botton

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Charles J. Shields

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

Charles Kettering

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Jeff Banks

One man down the road said he tried desperately to get his wife into the attic. The man got in the attic, but his wife fell back down and drowned right there in front of him.

Calvin Jillson

Since there are no candidates, it's very quiet, and unusual voices get heard when they might have otherwise been drowned out.

Graeme Johnstone

Simply put, Mr. Holt took an unnecessary risk and drowned in rough water off Cheviot Beach,

Jupiter Hammon

Riches and honours which drown the greater part of mankind, who have the gospel, in perdition, can be little or no temptations to us.

Jim Ellis

I can't see that having a huge impact on the drowning fatalities in Maryland. It would be a significant loss of personal freedom.

Andrea Yates

If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast,

Grover Norquist

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Daphne Oz

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.

James Blanchard

I was in the (Navy) SeaBees and stationed in Gulfport, ... The water went so far inland people were drowning in their houses.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

French Proverbs

One may go a long way after one is tired.

English 19th Century Proverbs

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar.

English 17th Century Proverbs

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Thomas Peterffy

You win a few, you lose a few.

English 18th Century Proverbs

Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.

Turkish Proverbs

Part with your head, but not with your secret.

English 14th Century Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.