James Whitcomb Riley quote: "God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him, High towering over all."

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discourage...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusia...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepes...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along ...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and th...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two? Comin'--goin'--every day-- B...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that b...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among The tilted honeysuckle horns They m...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusias...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has ...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the ...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The ripest peach is highest on the tree
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Why, rain's my choice.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out t...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-"preserves" she made! And the sweet...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-"preserves" she made! And the sweet...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Sing for the good that is to be, Sing for the eyes that are to see The land where man at last is fre...
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?"

"Oh, ther...
JAMES RILEY

It was fantastic. I don't think I've experienced that before. It's kind of an abnormal feeling for s...
JAMES RILEY

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't ...
JAMES RILEY

There is no statewide ordinance, only case law established by previous lawsuits, so the matter is le...
JAMES RILEY

It wasn't a small ambush. It was a whole city. And we were getting shot from all different direction...
JAMES RILEY

A Budweiser executive once grabbed me at a conference and told me how great our site was and how muc...
JAMES RILEY

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,
JAMES RILEY

We were like Custer. We were surrounded. We had no working weapons. We couldn't even make a bayonet ...
JAMES RILEY

It was very opportunistic, very lucky. (Pat Noonan) played a great ball and Taylor (Twellman) was ab...
JAMES RILEY

[A U.S. military official] notified us, confirmed our son was one of them. They're in good condition...
JAMES RILEY

It's going to be the heart, the pulse of the relief effort, ... We've got a vested interest in getti...
JAMES RILEY

I've been called back to assist with recovery efforts and to assist my family,
JAMES RILEY

He was finally able to out-vague the Charmed One!
JAMES RILEY

Jack glanced at the old man, whose eyes were about as big as dinner plates. Jack just nodded with un...
JAMES RILEY

When the birds had all flown, the monkey landed on May’s pillow and smacked it, letting her know i...
JAMES RILEY

The others just stopped and stared at him. “Correct me if I be wrong, little man,” Bluebeard sai...
JAMES RILEY

You are awake,” Phillip said from his side. “I feared you were permanently injured.” “The da...
JAMES RILEY

Thousand years, billion dollars,” May said to the monkey. “You. PAY.
JAMES RILEY

The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds."

"Dear s...
LAURA WHITCOMB

We won't stuff a George tweed suit in a grocery sack.
GUS WHITCOMB

We're not looking to give people a hard time, but we do ask people to exercise some common courtesy ...
SEAN WHITCOMB

We wanted to do something for everyone, [and] it has become incredibly popular.
ABER WHITCOMB

The witnesses saw the assault, and the victim had some marks on her consistent with what they saw. T...
SEAN WHITCOMB

About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the...
LAURA WHITCOMB

Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB

We fill a void that is very important in the employment arena.
GUS WHITCOMB

I don't think there was any malice or intent in the forethought. But I don't accept or approve of th...
CHARLES WHITCOMB

I had engineers up all night walking a single file tree from one piece of hardware to another. We we...
ABER WHITCOMB

The more people know about each other, the more the collars come off. The more information people ha...
CHARLES WHITCOMB

But many of the players were veterans who had the training last year. I thought the meeting went wel...
CHARLES WHITCOMB

Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me...
LAURA WHITCOMB

American has a valid ratified agreement with the APFA,
GUS WHITCOMB

We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals. But talking to our consumers we have to note ...
GUS WHITCOMB

We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals,
GUS WHITCOMB

We've got quite a large segment of our customer base who wants the option of a streamlined airport e...
GUS WHITCOMB

However, as we've said before, union demonstrations that seek to harm a company seem an odd way to t...
GUS WHITCOMB

He saw this kind of problem down the road and wanted to do everything he could to insulate it.
HOWARD WHITCOMB

I have not lost contact with him.
HOWARD WHITCOMB

I don't think there's any question he did so reluctantly.
HOWARD WHITCOMB

This country is on the verge of facing a substantial shortage of physicians.
MICHAEL WHITCOMB

They aren't voting on whether the Cactus Club should serve liquor, but whether it should be improved...
MICHAEL WHITCOMB

We know exactly who he is and where he lives and we are actively investigating and looking for him.
SEAN WHITCOMB

Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
TALULAH RILEY

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence,...
TALULAH RILEY

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
TALULAH RILEY

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.
TALULAH RILEY

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lo...
TALULAH RILEY

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an act...
TALULAH RILEY

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in ...
TALULAH RILEY

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a ...
TALULAH RILEY

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, &#...
TALULAH RILEY

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ...
TALULAH RILEY

When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten ...
TALULAH RILEY

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
TALULAH RILEY

Men are visual creatures.
TALULAH RILEY

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
TALULAH RILEY

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a de...
TALULAH RILEY

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel,...
TALULAH RILEY

There's a real power in heels and a good dress.
TALULAH RILEY

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie...
TALULAH RILEY

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
TALULAH RILEY

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole ...
TALULAH RILEY

My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew somethi...
TALULAH RILEY

I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
TALULAH RILEY

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to re...
TALULAH RILEY

I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then ...
TALULAH RILEY

I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot ...
TALULAH RILEY

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite ha...
SAM RILEY

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the...
SAM RILEY

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
SAM RILEY

My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
SAM RILEY

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at...
SAM RILEY

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
SAM RILEY

'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of...
SAM RILEY

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
SAM RILEY

I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
SAM RILEY

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.
SAM RILEY

I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays t...
SAM RILEY

I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire...
SAM RILEY

I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, ...
SAM RILEY

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
SAM RILEY

We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
SAM RILEY

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
TALULAH RILEY

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
BRIDGET RILEY

Whatever it takes to win.
PAT RILEY

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY

You can never have enough talent.
PAT RILEY

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ...
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
PAT RILEY

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done ...
PAT RILEY

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency...
PAT RILEY

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
PAT RILEY

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in hi...
PAT RILEY

I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my hous...
RILEY SMITH

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend wh...
AMBER RILEY

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my caree...
RILEY SMITH

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
PAT RILEY

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponen...
PAT RILEY

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
PAT RILEY

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare...
PAT RILEY

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.
PAT RILEY

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
PAT RILEY

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his at...
PAT RILEY

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
PAT RILEY

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
PAT RILEY

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate ex...
PAT RILEY

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The...
PAT RILEY

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of ...
PAT RILEY

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effor...
PAT RILEY

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
PAT RILEY

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
PAT RILEY

Discipline is not a nasty word.
PAT RILEY

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
PAT RILEY

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in so...
PAT RILEY

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
PAT RILEY

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
PAT RILEY

It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This ...
PAT RILEY

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant chang...
PAT RILEY

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up...
BOB RILEY

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.
BOB RILEY

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment ...
BOB RILEY

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
BOB RILEY

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government...
BOB RILEY

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared betw...
BOB RILEY

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less lik...
BOB RILEY

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New ...
BOB RILEY

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies d...
BOB RILEY

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ...
BOB RILEY

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money...
BOB RILEY

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it...
BOB RILEY

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes...
BOB RILEY

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for gov...
BOB RILEY

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited re...
BOB RILEY

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
BOB RILEY

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedne...
BOB RILEY

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our L...
BOB RILEY

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take car...
BOB RILEY

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the...
BOB RILEY

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
BOB RILEY

There is no longer time for statements like 'if only' or 'we can't.' We must and...
BOB RILEY

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe...
BOB RILEY

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is...
BOB RILEY

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
BOB RILEY

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.
RILEY KEOUGH

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagin...
RILEY KEOUGH

It's weird, I grew up in California, and I've only surfed, like, once.
RILEY KEOUGH

There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are....
RILEY KEOUGH

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me...
RILEY KEOUGH

I think I should have been an aesthetician, honestly.
RILEY KEOUGH

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.
RILEY KEOUGH

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all t...
RILEY KEOUGH

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from ...
RILEY KEOUGH

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.
RILEY KEOUGH

I think it's ridiculous when a character wakes up in the morning with lipstick and foundation an...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't remember the last time I drove. I'd rather be a passenger unless I'm somewhere b...
RILEY KEOUGH

People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed ...
RILEY KEOUGH

Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of ...
RILEY KEOUGH

Honestly, my idea of a fun night out is something like being in the middle of America in a pickup tr...
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow...
RILEY KEOUGH

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting pe...
RILEY KEOUGH

I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.
RILEY KEOUGH

Eventually, I want to move to Hawaii and chill forever.
RILEY KEOUGH

I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner,...
RILEY KEOUGH

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted t...
RILEY KEOUGH

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will ...
PAT RILEY

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opp...
PAT RILEY

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had...
BRIDGET RILEY

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
BRIDGET RILEY

God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him, High towering over all.

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God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him, High towering over all.

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