Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Ezra Taft Benson

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

David A. Bednar

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

Joe Hart

The police were here 60 seconds after they attempted to break in.

Tony Blair

The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

Noreena Hertz

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

Jennifer Glass

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Chris Simcox

The American people still have the God-given right to defend the integrity of the territory, their sovereignty and their national security, and they will do so if the federal government fails in its constitutional duty.

Tim McConnell

That was the key. We weren't able to defend him inside. He was too big and too physical. We're not a big team and he was too much for us." ()

Johnny May

We just didn't defend tonight. We had to fight ... to get back in it once they got a lead, and we played like we were tired.

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

Ron Watson

We were hard to defend because we had the outside shooters and we had the inside game. We had six players that could score at any time in double figures.

Mark McKinnon

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

Mikko Hypponen

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

Zach Braff

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

Ron Dayne

That was the hardest part. Not dressing didn't really hurt me, but not being able to help the team did.

Orlando Bloom

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

Olivier Theyskens

If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

Mats Sundin

We have the players in this dressing room to make the playoffs.

Kim Williams

We have a full digital-effects facility. We have full sound and vision post-production facilities. We have sound stages that have great support spaces to them for production offices and dressing rooms.

Mathieu Schneider

We've got some of the greatest goal-scorers who have ever played this game in our dressing room and guys that are hot this year. We've got to finish chances. It's not for lack of chances. It's just finishing.

Mathieu Schneider

We've got some of the greatest goal-scorers ever to play the game in our dressing room.

Mathieu Schneider

We've got some of the greatest goal-scorers ever to play in the game in our dressing room.

Ian Mckellen

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Gene Ween

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

William Shatner

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

Emilia Fox

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Horsey

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

Christopher Guest

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Clint Eastwood

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

William Whitelaw

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

David Thewlis

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Bernadette Peters

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Bill Burr

I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.

Geri Federico

That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.

Michael Jacobson

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

Patrick Moynihan

listening to probably the wisest New Yorker that we can know of at this time.

Kurt Ebenhoch

From the outset, we said that the program was a test and we said that we would be evaluating its success and listening to our customers.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Gordon Campbell

We can't look at the results we've had and say those are the results we want.

Gustav Humbert

We're very satisfied with the test results and are on target.

Brett Tomko

I thought I pitched pretty well, but I've had the same results all year,

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Joe Escobedo

It doesn't take 18 months; it doesn't take 18 days. The results were immediate.

Tony Marshall

I feel rapt that we will now see the tangible results of the money.

Edward Gibbon

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Bill Paxton

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Stephen Greene

We want this to be the Lollapalooza of the decade, but with a community-service twist to it.

Nick Nolte

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

Paul Sullivan

I mean, yeah, I know, look, we're twisting the story a little but we can only twist it, right? What can we do?

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

Thomas A. Edison

A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everythingcomes to him who hustles while he waits.

Harriet Monroe

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.