Bob Coy Quotes

There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

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• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Security
  • Very

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Day

• My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Going

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Want
  • Play
  • Organization

• I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Easy
  • Someone
  • Knife

• How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Live
  • Art
  • Evil

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Man
  • Thoroughly
  • Godless

• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Work
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • World
  • Always
  • Old

• When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Die
  • Like
  • Back

• If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Potential

• Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the Constitution allows.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • Privacy

• Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Power
  • Positive

• The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • People
  • Character
  • Reality

• Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

  

  Bob Coy
  • Character
  • Win
  • Build