Quotes with course

Quotes 301 till 320 of 348.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
    - +
     0
  • David Mamet We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Robinson We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Robert E. Lee We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Alan Thicke We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Alan Thicke We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Omar N. Bradley We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Adrian Edmondson We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Albert Einstein We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Honore We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryant Gumbel We've got an awful lot to talk about this week, including the sexual harassment suit against the President. Of course, in that one, it's a little tough to figure out who's really being harassed.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • Angela Davis Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alexander Downer Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
    - +
     0
All course famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 16)