Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Annie Leibovitz

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Jeff Morris

The advantages of heavy crude processing and upgrade of the bottoms via high-valued asphalt sales fit our core strategy and our business model well.

Ric Edelman

You are gambling on tax advantages being present in 20 years when you are ready to withdraw from the contract and I'm not convinced that's going to be true, ... I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.

Dick Vermeil

We have to manage ourselves in a way that allows us to neutralize advantages that a home team has. We've gone there and won before, (but) we haven't beaten this football team before.

Neil Smit

We're working hard to use our network advantages to build strong customer relationships. We'll continue to aggressively roll out telephone service to make the three-product bundle available in a majority of our footprint, and we're on track to offer telephone service to between six million and eight million homes by year end.

Paul Singer

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.

Philip Schultz

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

William Hazlitt

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

Charles Ramsey

It certainly is getting to a point now where it's kind of baffling because we don't have any information one way or another, so we can't really narrowly focus,

Denis O'Hare

Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.

James P. Carse

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

Cesar Conda

That's really baffling in light of the economy's growth.

Alex Eckelberry

To many of us, it is completely baffling why there are so many different groups out there.

George Whalin

He's not a retailer. He's never been a retailer. The guy who's running merchandizing and marketing is not a guy who's qualified to do that. This is baffling to me. It's mind-boggling.

George Whalin

He's not a retailer. He's never been a retailer, ... The guy who's running merchandizing and marketing is not a guy who's qualified to do that. This is baffling to me. It's mind-boggling.

Scott Skiles

It's baffling as much as we work on end-of-game situations that we just took the ball up and turned it over right there. I don't understand it.

Giles Foden

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

William H. Seward

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?

John C. Calhoun

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

Carrie Fisher

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

Marquis de Lafayette

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

Randall Kennedy

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

John Dryden

To live at ease, and not be bound to think.

Bhagavad Gita

You are infinite valor and the boundless might. You pervade everything, and therefore You are everywhere and in everything.

Keith Brooking

He has a lot more power, deceptive power, a lot more than you see on film. He's strong, he has the speed to get outside. I think he got some tough yards inside today. That's for sure.

Cathleen Schine

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Greg Rusedski

I thought the first set was really good, especially getting that early break. He's a very deceptive player.

Gary Ruskin

It's deceptive because people think they're talking to a regular person when they're really talking to a shill, ... That's the whole point, that shills have to disclose that they're shills.

Arthur Conan

There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

John Richter

This was essentially an organization that was willing to be a one-stop-shop for illegal goods. We seized more than $4 million of highly deceptive currency. It's the largest seizure of its kind.

Edmund Mierzwinski

First of all, ... if you just opt out, you're protecting your information from being shared with telemarketers who use deceptive scripts to trick you into ordering junky products. If this decision is upheld, you're also protecting your Social Security number from being shared with information brokers and that might protect you from identity theft and stalking.

Terry Gough

He's not the prototype tailback because he doesn't have quite the field vision or shake to him that the really good tailbacks have. But he has deceptive speed. We ran the legs off him, so he can take a pounding. He's very durable.

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Kurtis Cooper

We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Nabil Sha'ath

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Alexander Downer

We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,

John Koskinen

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

Haim Ramon

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Dave Odom

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonight.

Jerry Collins

We're waiting to hear from our people on the ground. Our efforts go to long-term recovery,

Hoshyar Zebari

will help the reconciliation efforts and the healing process.

Ken Johnson

We have ongoing efforts in all 50 states.

Edward Whelan

Judicial imposition of same-sex marriage seems to be on the horizon. We also oppose efforts to strip God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Russ Knocke

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

Steve Boylan

We are not redeploying units/personnel for the hurricane relief efforts as all the units/personnel here are required for the ongoing security and stability operations happening here in Iraq,

Rick Doyle

We have an obligation to make efforts to see if we can reach agreements, but we don't have to come into any agreement.

Clint Chamberlin

We had excellent efforts and we ran a smart race for the mid-80 temperatures.

John Boyne

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

Mithali Raj

We have women umpires in India, but if there are male umpires employed we don't have any problems if we are getting fair decisions.

Jerry Mathers

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Dennis Campbell

I have been employed at Mounds Schools for the past 23 years as a high school principal, coach, and superintendent and have some great memories of what has been accomplished.

Donna Roberts

The people that are still employed are petrified.

Michael Bryant

Freedom-of-information legislation would have to be employed to reveal just how often I read it. I love it. Seth is one of the most insanely hilarious people I know. He's the guy who can have people doubled over in laughter at a funeral.

Nathan Fillion

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

Kenneth Cranham

If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Thierry Henry

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bethany Hamilton

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Nayvadius Cash

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bertrand Russell

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

William Shakespeare

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Philippe Petit

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Action Bronson

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Ron Dellums

There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.

Ezra Pound

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

T. S. Eliot

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Christian Camargo

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Michael Keaton

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Matt Kuchar

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Neil Kurshan

Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

Alan Greenspan

We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty,

Clarence Seedorf

Today's victory was important for our condition, morale and conviction.

Avery Johnson

We didn't come here to get any moral victories. I'm disappointed with his loss.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Sela Ward

From a morality point of view, I wouldn't even go near, ... But in terms of making an interesting show, I'm sure they'll have to struggle with it.

David Brooks

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Margo MacDonald

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

Mike Fratello

We had open shots and we didn't make the shots that we made in the first half. They got in transition and we had some turnovers.

Matt Mahar

We were getting open opportunities. It was just a problem of stopping their little runs.

Nicole Klay

We have tons of terrain back there that will really open up the mountain.

Pokey Chatman

Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Greg Bonczkowski

Whoever was open made a three in the first quarter.

Christian Ehrhoff

You just got to get open and he s going to get you the puck.

John Cornyn

where we have wide open spaces and plenty of opportunity for high-density training.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Kelly Moylan

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Grace Paley

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Rebecca Jackson

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

David Rice

Will do Satan's work for food.

Beth Moore

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Bill Hicks

Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.

Edwin Louis Cole

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

Craig Ferguson

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Anton LaVey

There are many who would take my time. I shun them.

Anton LaVey

There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time. I cherish them.

Anton LaVey

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

Christopher Moore

I've won Satan's lottery.

Donna Kelly

the worst two wolves out of the pack.