I think we're a great team. Whatever people are saying, thanks for the compliment.
I think we're a great team. Whatever people are saying, thanks for the compliment.
Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy
Allah sets forth an example There is a slave in whom are (several) partners differing with one another, and there is another slave wholly owned by one man. Are the two alike in condition (All) praise is due to Allah. Nay most of them do not know.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
He's so competitive, he's so tough, and he's so smart. Once he got a chance to play, he performed well, and he had a great career. I don't like the word 'overachiever.' I called him that once, and he said, 'What do you mean by that' I said, 'What I mean is, I can't give a guy a higher compliment.' Sometimes when you get called that, it's like you don't have any ability, you just play hard. He had ability.
Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.
Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but
that they call compliment is like th' encounter of two dog-apes;
and when a man thanks me heartily, methinks have given him a
penny, and he renders me the beggarly thanks.
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.
GRAPE, n.Hail noble fruit --by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am.The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer My humbler service pray accept -- I'll help to kill the scoffer.The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins with liquor -- I'll gladly bear their belly-tanks And tap them with my sticker.Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e'er we let the wine rest. Here's death to Prohibition's fools, And every kind of vine-pest --Jamrach Holobom
Thou, man, alone canst speak. Wonder at thy glorious prerogative and pay to him who gave it to thee a rational and welcome praise, teaching thy children wisdom, instructing the offspring of thy loins in piety.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I am not
such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.
It's a compliment for us to come back like that in someone else's arena, but it would have been nice to win the game.
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.... I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed.
And We will remove whatever of ill-feeling is in their breasts the rivers shall flow beneath them and they shall say All praise is due to Allah Who guided us to this, and we would not have found the way had it not been that Allah had guided us certainly the apostles of our Lord brought the truth and it shall be cried out to them that this is the garden of which you are made heirs for what you did.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
And surely We know that your breast straitens at what they say Therefore celebrate the praise of your Lord, and be of those who make obeisance.
There were so many times I've been cast as a character that wasn't necessarily Latin. But I say, can we put something in that ties in my culture I've gotten a lot of praise for actually saying, this is who I am, let's show it, let's embrace it.
Hearing you praised, I say "'Tis so, 'tis true,"
And to the most of praise add something more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
Hopefully the fans will warm up to me and give me a chance. To get traded for somebody like that or even be in the same sentence, it's a huge compliment.
So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they looked but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
there are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Singing Your Glorious Praises, my mind is rejuvenated. Hearing Your Sermon, all filth is removed.
And thus marvellous will be your praise.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Not a week goes by when someone doesn't call me Larry, and every time it happens I take it as a generous compliment.
People compose for many reasons to become immortal because the pianoforte happens to be open because they want to become a millionaire because of the praise of friends because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes for no reason whatsoever.
It's great for our program. It's a compliment to our players. Twenty-win seasons are a result of their commitment.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
Love was their Pleasure, and their Praise,
The soft Employment of their Days.
The FedEx comments we're getting back are that there are regular driving characteristics. The drivers are getting into these vehicles and not seeing much of a difference which we take as the ultimate compliment. If we can make this technology seamless to them, then we think we've accomplished our goal.
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
If my body were afflicted with pain, under the evil influence of unlucky stars and if the blood-sucking kings were to hold power over me - even if this were my condition, I would still worship and adore You, and my longing to chant Your Praises would not decrease.
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
I don't know how they figure that stuff out, but it's definitely a compliment for someone to recognize the fact that I play good defense. I don't know what those numbers mean, but the bottom line is to go out and catch the ball.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
I think that it's a compliment.
In listening to so many people who have been touched by Mr. Penick's life, I really heard a message about coaching. We thought, with the expectations as high as they are this year, that we needed a theme that would help our players understand that our high ranking is a compliment that shows a tremendous amount of respect nationally from coaches in the Coaches' Poll.
He's pretty much even-keeled in his approach. When his play was lavished with praise, I think he handled that well, and he handles the criticism well. I think he's extremely motivated to be as good as he can be.
Our vows are heard betimes and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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