On Hope Quotes

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he's not running for anything.

Lots of travel, away from home.

The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.

I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

Today's ballroom dances like the swim, the frug, the chicken and the monkey are really nervous disorders set to music.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.