Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Brown

And that's what all the blessed evil's for.

Jesse Moore

It was a labor of love. I feel blessed I had the opportunity to work in jobs that I loved and with young people in my own community for 38 years. I'm thankful for it.

Gail Devers

This race was just feeling my way through. I'm 39, but I'm not over the hill yet. The one title I didn't have was motherhood. Everything I've ever wanted, I have. ... I'm blessed to have a healthy baby.

Elias Koteas

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

The Koran

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Bible Bible

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

Ezra Taft Benson

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

E. M. Forster

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

Drew Bledsoe

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Richie Benaud

Cricket has changed for the better ... it's because of what happened then, cricket is so strong now.

Michelle Ryan

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Andy Roddick

We had similar games, but he was pretty much just better at everything then. A lot has changed since then, that was a long time ago.

Gene McAteer

We went to a 1-3-1 and changed the tempo of the game. We don't use it often for long stretches, but we tried to shift the momentum.

Simone Elkeles

Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest.

Lamar Butler

This was history. We're living it. When you talk about the Final Four, you have to talk about us making the Final Four. We changed the face of college basketball. Unfortunately, it had to come to an end.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

E. Hicks

You feel like a second-class citizen when you have the No. 1 offense and the No. 32 defense year in and year out.

Jason Chaffetz

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Martha Plimpton

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

Kris Mineau

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Wade Estep

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

H. Hunt

Common sense and briefings tell us at ground zero it will take folks longer to get back home, but not because of contamination -- it's because of the process,

George Bernard Shaw

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

James Zogby

common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sean Penn

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

Mickey Sherman

We wanted 12 intelligent people with a lot of common sense. Boy, it looks like we got what we wanted. It's an ideal jury.

Walter Moloney

This type of restrictions are not common in town houses or single-family developments.

Dr. Irwin

(We) found very little evidence for the efficacy of these over-the-counter cough preparations for cough due to the common cold.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Ravi Zacharias

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Jon Voight

I think he taught people the dignity of life and the dignity going into that last phase, toward death,

Fulton J. Sheen

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Mason Cooley

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Emma Watson

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Hjalmar Branting

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

John Marshall

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Zadie Smith

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

Bobby Knight

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most of them were forced as a result of the way they play.

Meat Loaf

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

John Galsworthy

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it

Jeff Newman

The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.

Chris Ritacco

We forced a shot with 23 seconds left and they got the rebound and we had to foul and they made two more foul shots.

Gary Johnson

We put their keeper under a lot of pressure and he was forced to concede several corners,

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

John Piper

God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything.

Bob Dylan

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Margaret Chan

When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

Richard Grasso

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Robert Bresson

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Nacho Figueras

Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Joseph Lowery

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,

Nelson Mandela

which made us realize that this is an international phenomenon that we celebrate. Rosa Parks is worldwide.

Russell Brand

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Janeane Garofalo

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Dennis Ritchie

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Arizona Muse

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Dave Morin

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Dale Carnegie

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Constantin Stanislavski

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Barbara Jordan

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Bob Dole

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

Aldous Huxley

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Alphonse Karr

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Susan Sarandon

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Susan Collins

Our vision was to serve the whole area

Steve Jobs

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

Steven Wright

I'm a peripheral visionary.