Were Quotes

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again.

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.