Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Brightman

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Tullian Tchividjian

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Pau Gasol

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

Patrick Lussier

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

Martin Filler

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Lesley Visser

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

John C. Maxwell

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

Ben Howland

I'm excited about a No. 2 seed. It was well-deserved. Our guys have worked very, very hard. One of the criteria that is used is how are you playing at the end of the season.

Sean Connery

It makes you wonder at times what exactly is the criteria to qualify.

Bud Selig

It's exceeded in intensity, in interest, in just every way that you can ---- criteria that you can use to judge something, it has been really successful.

Sunny Thomas

We strictly abided by the selection criteria we had set and we did not want to go back on our words by diverting from it.

Alan Stern

Whether or not an object has a moon is not part of the criteria that we've considered, because so many small objects in the solar system have moons,

Achin Vanaik

Washington's non-proliferation criteria are selective, discriminatory and inconsistent. It uses non-proliferation as a weapon when that suits its short-term interests. When it doesn't, it allows nuclear weapons technologies to proliferate.

Mike Quigley

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Raimund Fabi

He will not ski because he is ill and has pneumonia. He's back in Austria and had his last test today.

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Joe Pasquale

If you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.