Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Hannah

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Tom Moran

Remarkably, within minutes of being released he was committing another burglary.

John Davidson

If you're out of the market you need to be in the market if you're saving for your long-term retirement or for other elements, ... People have been waiting on the sidelines, not committing as much new money. I don't think you should be investing next week's rent check, but your long-term investment is going to really grow in the market, and technology will lead that.

Noam Chomsky

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

Gloria Grahame

I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press's reaction - you'd have thought I was committing incest or robbing the cradle!

David Bennett

If people are working, they're less likely to be committing crimes.

Aaron Klein

In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

Phillip Daggett

I knew that the only way that he would be taken down just because of his attitude, his demeanor that night. I figured it was going to be either him committing suicide, suicide by cop or just as it actually was with the shootout.

Lee Rubin

The first question is, Is it truthful? Or is he committing suicide, effectively?

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Mark Farley

He's done a nice job with our kids here. I thanked him for his efforts and everything he has done here the past few years, and wished him well.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Phil Smith

If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.

Rio Ferdinand

In my mind, and in a lot of the lads' minds, we are still concentrating all our efforts on finishing second.

Kip Hawley

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

Granth Sahib

His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.

Simon Hauger

We've estimated that there's probably between $80,000 and $100,000 worth of parts in the car.

Saddam Hussein

I just wanted to be able to reach at least half of the show's estimated viewers.

David Orr

Initially, we estimated the number of people in need was about one million and we had reached about 50 percent of them. We've had a food security team in the field and they've revised the estimate up quite dramatically.

Val Charlton

The circumference of the fire is an estimated 50km.

John Challenger

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

Chris Evans

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

Peter Piot

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

Terri Smith

They are estimated higher than what they will actually be,

Rob Binns

World Airways will operate five international round trips a week under the contract, which has an estimated value of $11 million.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Mark Konlock

If you just see your job as a job or a way to pay the bills, then it doesn't seem like it's fulfilling you. Life should be more than that, I think.

Mike Adamek

Awesome. It was kind of like fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Mary Nelson

Performing at the hospital is very fulfilling for the musicians.

Roger Clemens

I've been fulfilling some personal services (in his contract). I'm here for this, today.

James Stevens

The university hasn't officially named us a national touring group yet. But as long as we keep getting invited to tour, hopefully we can keep fulfilling those requests.

Lawrence Korb

The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.

Ruckett

Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.

Hassan Rouhani

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

Marlo Thomas

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

Voltaire

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

Rick Warren

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

Bob DuPuy

plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Casey Hampton

I was joking with Hines about that. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of like a consolation prize. With the MVP, it doesn't really matter what people think of you on other teams, it's about what your teammates think of you, and obviously our teammates think very highly of us.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Alberto Melloni

He is the most highly ranked member of the Curia that the U.S. has ever had.

Thomas Needham

He seems to be a very highly regarded young man.

Don Flanagan

I think it's highly unlikely she'll play. We don't want to rush her back and risk aggravating the injury.

Bob Trezise

It is a highly unique and 21st century-like company, like the type that we'd like to inspire here in the Lansing area. They can go other places in the country.

Yolanda Clark

I think at the end of the day, American screeners are the most highly trained

Richard Kite

It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area.

Andy Roberts

Our replacement technicians are highly trained and experienced mechanics.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Willie Nelson

I'm an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Trip Hawkins

You'd be surprised at how many women are joining those leagues.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Larry Moses

Everyone is always looking to find quality people to join the organizations, to keep the traditions alive.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Paul Ryan

You're going to hear a lot from President Obama and yes, from Joe Biden, you're hearing a little bit about Medicare these days. What they will not tell you is they turned Medicare into a piggybank to fund 'Obamacare.' They took $716 billion dollars to pay for the 'Obamacare' program.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Pete Wentz

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

John Cornyn

The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

Jon Stewart

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

Jimmy Fallon

Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.'

Fred Upton

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Tori Amos

What do you plan to do with all your freedom?

W. S. Gilbert

I prefer to say the plans will accommodate some big-box users.

Dick Vermeil

I never had any plans to send him out of here,

Mila Kunis

Always have a backup plan.

Napoleon Hill

Plan you work and work your plan.

Napoleon Hill

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

Eric Schmidt

If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Kevin Reilly

It's not dead, but I don't have any plans on it.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Robert Wyatt

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Roberto Hernandez

I'm a relief pitcher, ... That's all I know. When the game's on the line, I want the ball.

Orhan Pamuk

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

Brett Beal

The need to seek relief from the stress at work, you know, the stress at home.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Wayne Dyer

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Sathya Baba

If you dare, seek My Truth. Come, surrender unto Me.

Phillip Nalbone

They will seek to use it as a negotiating tool.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

John Ortberg

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Shunryu Suzuki

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Melissa Fleming

There was no explanation. We're still seeking clarification.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.

Rick Comley

He seems to be right on top of things and very alert. We've always had trouble with him.

Kevin Burton

He's had team success, but it seems like he's always come up a little short.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

David Walton

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Chris Osgood

He doesn't really talk about his accomplishments too much. He seems to be getting better and better for the playoffs.

Raymond Chandler

But nothing seems to do any good.

Will Durant

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Tullian Tchividjian

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Saul Bellow

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Louise Erdrich

The universe is transformation.

Nhat Hanh

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Joseph Prince

You are transformed by beholding, not by working.

Elizabeth Gilbert

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Ken Curtis

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Shunryu Suzuki

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]