Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Goodman

There are still vast numbers of documents that are concealed and hidden and declared to be secret and confidential.

Richard Shelby

Does it concern you that Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public?

Peter Hamm

It's time for the state of Virginia to grow up and say you can't have concealed weapons in the legislature and offices. You don't have a right to put other people's safety at risk in the state legislature.

John Mason

The wise man has his foibles, as well as the fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself and concealed from the world; and the foibles of the other are known to the world and concealed from himself.

Bryan Miller

The moist, flavorful meat is concealed under a thick slab of crisp fat that would make a cardiologist blanch.

Raymundo Ferrer

This was a concealed explosive device that was left on piles of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanks. This was purely to sow terror.

Anthony Wood

Faults ought no more to be concealed than virtues, and that, whatever it may be in a painter, it is no excellence in an historian to throw a veil on deformities.

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Eric Thomas

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

John Dryden

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Thomas A. Edison

There's a way to do better... find it.

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Walter Map

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

R. Ingram

It's something they ought to be able to live with.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

John G. Schmitz

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Cliff Floyd

If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,

Mike Hampton

If you're durable, if you're used to throwing a lot, ... I don't think there is any problem.

Andre Ward

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,

Jason Johnson

I just didn't have command. I usually usemy sinker as my out-pitch and tonight I couldn't throw it where and when I wanted to.

Sim Osborn

I had these toys in my house, I've thrown them out, and told everyone I know.

Gerald Laird

I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent,

Zach Duke

I know they are going to have a better of an idea what I throw now. It's going to be fun, and be more of a challenge.

Josh Hancock

I'm not going to come in here and back down. I'm going to come in here and throw my game.

Friedrich Schiller

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Louis Pasteur

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Niecy Nash

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

Nawal El Saadawi

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

R. D. Laing

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Plutarch

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

David Hume

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

Elie Wiesel

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.