Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Long

Reading between the lines, assuming the sale is still on, it looks like this is a prelude to a break up as part of that sale process.

Terry Teachout

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

Kate Reardon

When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.

Alan Autry

We're assuming that these folks will be coming here and staying here.

Ken McBride

We're assuming that if this is popular, it will attract people into the market,

Scott Hoyt

We're assuming January was all about the weather.

Nancy Flynn

Employees should go to work assuming that Big Brother is going to read over their electronic shoulder when they're sitting at the computer.

Tom Adams

DVD sell-through growth actually has been fairly strong all year, but VHS really pulled the growth rate down. Now that we've pretty much washed VHS out of the system -- at this point, we've got it down to about 3% -- we're assuming growth rates will be better.

Himanshu Patel

Assuming $8,000 variable contribution margin/unit, we estimate this translates into an earnings-per-share hit of 1 cent for every day of lost production. However, we also note that much of this lost production could be made up via overtime production once the plants are up and running again.

Wendy Hall

The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

Mark Farley

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

M. Wolfe

Our slogan is 'Money for Nothing, Checks for Free,'

Kevin Cosgrove

The one thing about Steve, he's got a tremendous motor. But he still has a ways to go as far as his checks and things like that. We're looking for the exactness in his play, and that's got to continue to develop.

Madame Stael

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened

Phil Hardberger

Whatever we need to do, we're going to do, ... We're not going to wait for federal dollars to come in, we're going to write whatever checks that need to be written right now.

Alice Miller

You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

Michael Moore

Those checks will increase every year, and we're not limited to 25 years, ... Those payments will last forever, and ever, and ever.

Jay LaBonte

Unfortunately, those safeguards can actually help crooks in manufacturing realistic-looking checks on their computers. Some of these checks look better than the real McCoy.

Nicole Gasparri

We were just about to finish getting money from last year prior to Wilma. After the storm, we still got some checks from Frances or Jeanne.

Michael Enzi

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

John Watson

A three-game lead doesn't mean anything because you're playing for the playoffs, a state championship. Whether you win your division by one or 12, it doesn't make any difference. It's what are you doing at the end of the year to get ready for the state playoffs.

Kim Schoemer

Rachel is a special player. She's the first kid I've had that can play at a Division I school. She's that good and she keeps getting better.

Mark Sweeney

Our division is something that we should be competitive in.

Brooke Wyatt

The senior male division is a very strong division.

Jeremiah Trotter

These next three weeks are going to tell the tale of this team. It's imperative that we go down there to Washington and get this win. We lost our first game in the division to the Cowboys, so this is a must-win. A must, must-win.

Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Kris Draper

So you realize that our division just got that much tougher with the upgrades that all these teams made. They've turned themselves into some great hockey clubs.

Chad Tracy

Right now we're going to play every game out and we'll see how the division ends up at the end, ... We're not going to lay down for anybody. We're still not mathematically out of it, and miracles have happened before.

Kyle Davies

It would be neat if we're all here together, 15 years from now, talking about winning 29 consecutive division titles.

Josh Holmes

A new way of doing things, a new doctrine of game development.

Angelina Grimke

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ...

Michael Pollan

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

Buddha

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life

George Voinovich

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

George Washington

The most dangerous of all false doctrines is the one seasoned with a little truth. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

George Orwell

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

J. C. Ryle

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.

Desmond Tutu

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

Tony Evans

A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.

Thomas Watson

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

Robert Browning

God is the perfect poet.

Sojourner Truth

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Marcus Garvey

God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

Matisyahu

When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way.

John Shelby Spong

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

Bob Nicholson

Any time Brent wants to be with us, the same as Wayne Gretzky, I want to put him in a position to lead Team Canada.

John Fitzgerald

That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.

Gil McGowan

Rather than trying to get a deal, one of their lead negotiators is running the union leader off the road.

Bret Meyer

Our seniors can lead us to the right spot.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Volker Roth

Of course, we make mistakes like every player and coach. But that shouldn't lead to referees being sworn at or even threatened,

Sergei Samsonov

Once we have a lead we have to try and keep it. It's two frustrating losses.

Casey Williams

Once we got that lead we never relinquished it.

Lawton Chiles

The more lead time we give people, the more it helps,

Pete Vasil

Our motto has been defend, rebound, and run. We did well limiting them to one and done.

Dan Gallagher

We are not limiting our options until this comes back before you,

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Mike Rumph

This is not a stopgap, ... It might be like this for a while.

Daunte Culpepper

That's how it is. You might go through a stretch like that sometimes. Hopefully, I'll go through a stretch when I throw 12 or 15 touchdowns in a row without a pick.

Annie Parisse

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.

Wilma Askinas

Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.

Jessica Raine

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.

Haan Phelps

This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know I'm going to get reimbursed for it.

Bill Griffith

Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives.

Kevin Jackson

You should not have to pay in order to win or collect.

Arjun Makhijani

This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry,

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Arlen Specter

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Jason Calacanis

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

Carl Hagelin

As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

Martin Anderson

Reagan is more powerful today than when he was president.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.

Rev. Grady

Racism is about power. Always has been, always will be.

D. W. Griffith

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

Ralph Trine

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Sharon Williams

And then it was just the power of the Internet.

Robert Kagan

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Erin Runnion

I don't think there's a way to prevent this,

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Jesus Christ

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

A. Hodge

They are 4-0 for a reason. We know it is going to be a true test.

Cesar Chavez

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Demi Lovato

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

Dean Koontz

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Jan Lindholm

To some extent, this is also true in China.

E. B. White

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.