Top 1200 Greatest Hits Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If a defender hits you and you stay down he might think he's got the better of you, so to get up and keep going is important.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

I'm not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.

I try to pay it forward. I do a lot of philanthropic and charity work. Some of my greatest awards, greatest rewards, have not been for comic work but for charity work.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have to have a real meaning. There has to be depth.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

I've had some really big hits with 'Groundhog Day' and 'Michael,' 'Multiplicity,' 'Four Weddings and a Funeral.'

I've always felt that I need to be somebody in the middle of the lineup that's going to drive in runs and come up with big hits.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

Perhaps the number of new hits is not being noted the way it was done in the era of records or cassettes with the emergence of Internet.

I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

Punters are players, too. They got to learn to take the hits. If they dont want to get hit, they shouldnt be out there.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Obviously I've grown up around YouTubers, people getting millions of hits, but I was never anywhere near that.

Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. People who choose to come to America have always been one of our greatest sources of national vitality. They keep our economy strong and our communities dynamic. They are some of our greatest patriots.

One of the great things about 'The Voice' is that all the judges sing their own hits, as well as covers, and do duets with each other.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.

The Besiktas fans are very passionate. When you go out onto the pitch the noise coming from the stands always hits you.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

I did a rendition of Billie Jean which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

Of course, the moment when the ball hits the net, that's fascinating for kids playing the game and motivates them to join a club.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it. Hits don't make great artists.

When I looked at Ioniq, I thought about something in a childish way: If a thunder hits the car, will it recharge?

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.

I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.