All Quotes

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.
‐‐ Sebastian Faulks

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
‐‐ Oscar Pistorius

To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'
‐‐ Joan Kirner

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
‐‐ John James Audubon

To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
‐‐ Tiberius

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
‐‐ David J. C. MacKay

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
‐‐ Buddy Rich

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
‐‐ Tom Lehman

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
‐‐ Ellis Peters

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
‐‐ Tony Snow

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
‐‐ Alan Watts

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.
‐‐ Cat Deeley

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
‐‐ Dorothy Thompson

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.
‐‐ John Bytheway

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
‐‐ Anne Heche

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
‐‐ James Dickey

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
‐‐ George Eliot

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
‐‐ Anne Sweeney

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
‐‐ Thein Sein

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.
‐‐ Tracy McGrady

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
‐‐ Pat Riley

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.
‐‐ Mike Epps

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
‐‐ Chris Burke

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
‐‐ John Ortberg

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
‐‐ Charles Horton Cooley

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.
‐‐ Johannes Heesters

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
‐‐ Malcolm X

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
‐‐ Raymond Queneau

To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

To have people with - with psychological problems have a background check before they can buy a weapon? I don't think the NRA would pull me off that one. If they do, then I need to be pulled off it because... you can't give a weapon to someone who has mental issues, right.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
‐‐ Daniel Barenboim

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
‐‐ Geoffrey Boycott

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella