|
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over." »Samuel Johnson
|
|
"The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar
|
|
"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not." »Charles Barkley
|
|
"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation." »Saadi
|
|
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." »Aeschylus
|
|
"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this." »Simone Weil
|
|
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." »Mother Theresa
|
|
"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln
|
|
"You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt." »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul." »Jerry Coleman
|
|
"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." »Graffito
|
|
"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result." »Sir Winston Churchill
|
|
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." »Winston Churchill
|
|
"Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube." »Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
|
|
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." »Russell Baker
|
|
"Stoop and you'll be stepped on stand tall and you'll be shot at." »Carlos A. Urbizo
|
|
""Once I had a dog that died of lead poisoning . . . I shot him in the head."" »Tom Zegan
|
|
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund." »F. J. Raymond
|
|
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down." »Russell Baker
|
|
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot" »Charlie Chaplin
|
|
"I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it." »Truman Capote
|
|
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill)" »Ronald Reagan
|
|
"We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it." »Larry Hawkins
|
|
"If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
|
|
"It'll make your jaw drop." »Steve Jobs
|
|
"Turn on, tune in and drop out." »Timothy Leary
|
|
"News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." »Gene Fowler
|
|
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." »Samuel Goldwyn
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
