Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Kay Redfield Jamison

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Fernando Alonso

I was lucky that I was not fighting with anyone so I took the race quite easy. But for us, second place is good. The target for the last six or seven races was to be on the podium.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's statements to Dubuque voters make it clear that he will say anything to anyone at any time if he thinks it will help him score political points,

Robert LeBlanc

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Adrienne Clarkson

Knowing better than anyone my own shortcomings, I undertake this task with humility and ask you all, as Canadians, to help me.

Rick Riordan

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Mark Shapiro

I wouldn't say I'm surprised by Cliff's development, but I am a little surprised by the pace of it. He's an extremely competitive guy. He's made a ton of adjustments since last season, but I don't think anyone could have anticipated (that he'd get this good, this fast).

Andrea Martin

I was intimidated at first, ... But everyone was very helpful and kind.

Mary Dunn

I was looking for a way to help out and this was what I found. I don?t know if I?ll be able to go, but I think there are teachers out there who want to know their options, who want to know what they can do.

Brian McLaughlin

I was in Pensacola, Fla., for Ivan and I just want to be able to feel like I have helped people in my life,

Patrick Hogan

(Kirby) helped people...he always wanted to help people so splitting the money up is most in the spirit of (Kirby),

Clay Norton

Kevin is very talented. He has vision, and you can't teach that. He's not a selfish player who has to shoot. He helps a lot of other people score, though. You saw that tonight. He just helps a lot of people score.

Rig Veda

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

Will Peterson

Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim insisted on paying for it herself without the help from the organizers or sponsors.

Luke Donald

Knowing I have played well here before helps a lot.

Clint Hurdle

He is confident, but he has a lot of humility to go with the confidence.

Richard P. Feynman

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

Richard P. Feynman

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

Richard Baxter

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Saint Augustine

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Tryon Edwards

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Richard Curtis

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

William Safire

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Fernando Alonso

Knowing what it takes to win a title, I think they need a year running at the top first. Next year is more realistic for them. They'll make a big step at some point.

F. L. Lucas

Knowing what it means to sometimes have a ton of money, and sometimes have no money and have to come up on-the-fly with something.

Steve Greene

Knowing Travis I don't think he has any regret. I think that he wouldn't have it any other way.

Ben Wallace

Knowing Tony, I know he wouldn't go in the stands for no reason. You've got to protect your family.

E. Hicks

Knowing they're going to have 20,000 people here, you could think of (the fans) screaming at the top of their lungs.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Manny Acta

Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.

Atharva Veda

He, who works incessantly, accomplishes any task that he undertakes!

Richard Russo

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

Walter Benjamin

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Marcel Proust

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Alison Bechdel

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?