Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Woodrow Wilson

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Robert Herrick

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Rodger Berman

For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion.

Mark Pudlow

This is legislation in disguise. If it went up in a bill, it would be debated and be subject to being amended.

Hayao Miyazaki

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

Gore Vidal

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

Carl Meyers

They said, 'well, there's a possibility it'll swing back the other way'. I debated very hard on the whole thing, and just decided sooner or later, we're going to comply. I want to send a message, we're a family oriented place.

Bob McKenzie

It was debated whether to continue, but now there's an all-out effort to raise awareness.

Alex Sink

I honestly can't remember, because I debated with myself.

Scott Raftery

We debated whether we should go a different direction or try to keep the traditions going. We decided to hire Chris, and he kept it going for three more years.

John Page

We debated about the new school for 10 years, and now it seems we?re going to debate about the old school for another 10 years.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Alan Blaine

We've got some problems statewide. We had some hail storms come through in the last rain. I can't tell you how widespread. We've got some fields scattered around the state that are being replanted. They had been in the field for a month and a half.

William Shakespeare

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

Jane Cutler

We need time to get our fields developed.

Jerry Miller

Basically, we wanted to tell them when we say the fields are closed, we mean closed.

Charles Rangel

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Betty White

All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Pete Vagenas

We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

Mark Dobson

I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.

Charles R. Swindoll

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Loretta Lynch

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Stetson Kennedy

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.

Harold Brodkey

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Bob Kane

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Ed Mathey

After this weekend you will start to see some separation in the standings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Buddy Bell

There's not a whole lot of separation between them, to be honest.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Maximilien Robespierre

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Michael Scheuer

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Gary Forrest

He had a shaky start, then he really settled down and pitched well.

Milwaukee Brewers

He never got settled in. He couldn't find a groove. He never got going,

Dan Coffey

We settled down on defense. We just tried to stop them one (possession) at a time.

Jason Bumblis

We had some jitters in the first quarter. But we settled down. We always win with our defense.

Ned Yost

We want to let Rickie get settled in,

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Phil Flynn

Yesterday we had the big sell-off and we tried to come back a little bit.

Shannon Miller

We really tried to find where we had some duplication of services. It was one of our lesser-used facilities.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Henry Shelton

Things are worse. The gap's getting wider -- between those who have and those who do not.

George Curry

It was a way to have a wider community.

Bill Rammell

It will be an important part of wider work into admissions testing,

John Hawkes

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.