Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Michael McGuire

While we appreciate and are grateful for the government's comments and narrative of Mr. Fortier's labor in the past three years to assist the government in the investigation and prosecution of these cases, the retreat of support for Mr. Fortier as a trial witness and lukewarm endorsement in that regard is factually inaccurate,

Jay Jacobs

We wanted to cooperate and work together with other institutions to make sure everything was in place before releasing the schedule. We appreciate our Auburn fans' patience as we worked to complete the 2006 schedule.

Tom Brokaw

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

Karen Finney

As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Unfortunately for the American people all President Bush did today was make it clear that they should expect nothing more than the same failed policies they have come to know all too well.

Ed Rendell

There are people on the left who think John Kerry's too conservative, as well as the Bush administration that's trying to paint him as a wild-spending liberal.

Robert Novak

Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,

Ed Sarpolus

On their issues, Gore should win hands-down. He's tied with Bush now, but that's more to do with the educational issue and the family values issue ... not the right-to-life issue, but what they want their kids to be taught, right from wrong.

Phyllis Schlafly

Bush made it clear that his mission doesn't include trying to be popular in Europe, where many oppose our ideals.

Bruce Buchanan

Bush likes people who keep low profiles. He likes to be the star. He doesn't like competition from within.

Jiang Zemin

Bush junior lacks an understanding of China, ... anti-China.

Tom Ridge

Bush is willing to tackle the tough issues -- the ones some leaders refuse to touch, ... Issues such as real education reform, national security and defense, preserving Social Security and restoring America's values to government.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Dominique Wilkins

I knew it would happen. Just when was the question. But at this point in time, it doesn't matter if it happened last year or now. It's done. That's the most important thing to me.

Tim Phillips

I knew instantly what it was. And it occurred to me -- I did not know what happened to it.

Jennifer Flavin

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

Richard Grant

I'm elated, but 15 years of hard work unfortunately had to go south. I feel sorry for anything that happened in the past but I'm going to move on.

Amy Heffner

I knew after what happened that I had to make that one. As it turned out, that's the one we needed the most.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Carroll O'Connor

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Bella Thorne

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Lukas Krajicek

This is big. Every shift is going to be crucial, so I have to be ready to show what I can do.

Jim Gordon

We're as ready as we're going to be.

Benny Hinn

Are you ready for some real revelation knowledge... you are god.

Larry Pleau

Until he tells us he's ready ... We'll see what he says on Sunday.

Chen Yunlin

We will be ready for any complicated situation.

Sen. Baker

We have a system that is getting ready to implode on itself.

Raymond Carver

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Matthew Henry

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

Morton Feldman

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Dean Young

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Antonya Nelson

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Thomas Sowell

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Rush Limbaugh

The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

Stevie Wonder

If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.