Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Steven Hatfill

I am appalled at the terrible acts of biological terrorism that have caused death, disease and havoc in this great country starting last fall.

Publilius Syrus

He who yields to his times acts wisely

Andrew Sukawaty

If you leave the face closed, it acts like any phone. Open it and you have a high-resolution desktop with PDA functions, ... the best smart phone you'll see this year.

Bryan Whitman

In some cases, you had detainees that had made some incriminating statements about other detainees, and about third parties back in their home countries. In others, detainees had made statements that could be taken by enemy forces as disloyal acts against them. In others, detainees indicated that they had cooperated with U.S. forces, which could be held against them by individuals in their home countries.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Bill Brooks

Josh is still pretty young, but he gained so much experience from his dad. When I found out his dad came in I knew that would be a good team. His father reminds me of Charlie Wingate, who was a good trainer for me. That's a big plus for Josh.

Gary Walker

I talk to him all the time, ... I just tell him, 'That's what you came here for. You're a first-round pick. You're going to be fine.'

Randy Jackson

It actually came off as a nice kind of package. I actually liked it, man, I liked it.

Natalie Cole

I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

Larry Glass

I think it came out of the frustration of the City Council meeting that we all attended, particularly the Thursday one, where they tried to cut off the debate. They tolerate the public's discussion, but they don't really involve the public in the decision.

Sophie Hannah

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Jalal Talabani

It is a historic day. We have closed a sad chapter in the history of the Kurdish people.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins.

Ranya Young

Hopefully this will close the chapter of this book. I hope we can work together to get this district back to where it was and better.

David Levy

The House Committee looks forward to collaborating with her in writing the next chapter of the Athenaeum's history,

Michael Capellas

We still have a lot of work to do, but we are delivering on our 100-day plan, ... We are making solid progress on our cost reduction initiatives, and we are profitable. We remain on track to emerge from Chapter 11 protection later this year.

Wayne Gretzky

It's not going to be easy every day, but I'm going to work hard, and our players are going to work hard, ... I look forward to this as a new chapter in my life, and I can't wait to get started.

Bill Self

The thing is, Micah Downs, hopefully after today, will not warrant any of our thought process over the next couple months. Our focus needs to be on this team. Obviously, he chose not to be part of it. This is not something that we have enjoyed dealing with at all, and this chapter is closed.

Ken Richards

Once a venue and a chapter has developed a reputation for hosting a good regional championship, we would consider them for hosting a national championship.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Carolyn Freeman

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his music is his legacy. I hated to see it just go away.

Gary Mormino

He was the most hated man in North Florida.

Shelley Berman

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.

Maggie Stiefvater

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Lorenzo Fertitta

At the time Wall Street thought we were crazy-- they hated the idea but now they love it.

Steven Morrissey

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.

Nick Zano

I knew everything a woman hated even before I remotely knew anything a woman liked.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

William Vickrey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Karl Marlantes

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Don Lucia

First of all, I would like to congratulate Holy Cross. I thought they played terrific.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who recites the sermon of the Lord s Teachings.

Vance Havner

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

Robin Lee

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

Saint Augustine

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

Gail Carriger

Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

Viggo Mortensen

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

C. S. Lewis

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

Charles Wesley

And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.

Mike Mansfield

As long as the Lord will let me.

Yara Shahidi

I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Greg Schulz

Here we go again. We've been down this road before, many times.

Bill Womack

Historically we haven't done well on that road trip. It will be a tough road trip for us and we just need to play our game.

David Sanborn

I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.

Heraclitus Ephesus

The road up and the road down is one and the same.

Richard Pearson

It's scary. It would've been terrible if they go down the road and get stuck.

Rudi Giuliani

It may look like the worst is over, and in many ways it is, but the roads will be very slippery and very dangerous, particularly during the night,

Michael Vallone

It's a pretty pristine area. The road is pretty much unchanged.

Jim Melcher

It's going to be a rocky road going forward. You're going to have to work for your money.

Josh Paul

At least we have a day off in New York. I've been on a four-city road trip that took us coast-to-coast before. It is what it is.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Alan Cranston

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

Roseanne Barr

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

John McKee

I just sat on him, and he was completely relaxed. He was a lot more professional.

Marco Basten

I'm satisfied with the result, but not with the way we played,

Will Harris

I'm satisfied with her representation and what Kerr-McGee is doing.

Kevin Williamson

And I sat down. And I didn't write another word for 10 years. And when I wrote, and the first thing -- 'Killing Mrs. Tingle' is my first script.

Rob Globke

It was probably a little of both. We kind of sat back and they didn't give us much.

John Winn

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

William Jennings Bryan

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Vinoba Bhave

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Trent Dilfer

Whatever RAC (Crennel's initials) wants, that's what I'll do.

Abraham Nunez

You've got to do whatever you can to win. Whatever you have is whatever it takes.

Carmen Electra

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

Chad Gaudin

It's not new for me. Whatever they want me to do is fine.

Doug Preston

It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confidence.

Mike Carter

Nowadays, they don't care. They do whatever they can to be popular. It's really sad.

Larry Coker

With Olsen, whatever he does, it's like, 'Wow,'

Mike Reid

We'll work with whatever they need us to do.

Giuliana Rancic

We are really looking at all of our options. I mean, listen, whether it's IVF or whatever it is, we want to have a baby and we will have a baby.