Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Scott Rubin

The same thrilling action you got with the Time Crisis series at the arcade is now available on your phone and on the go. Namco Networks is dedicated to making sure our mobile games are faithful to the original console and arcade versions. We believe fans will agree that Time Crisis Mobile maintains the potent pace and excitement of the arcade original.

Marat Safin

I've slightly changed my action and movement and tonight it really worked well for me.

Stuart Rawlings

I've often toyed with what Jesus, Moses or Buddha would look like today. I think a 7-year-old handicap little girl seems ideal. I didn't want her to be an action hero, I wanted the opposite - for her to have more power than all of them put together.

David Bonior

It would be a grave mistake to go forward with this vote while our nation is engaged in military action, ... I cannot even believe we are having this debate.

Kenneth Polcari

It was the normal consolidation today (Wednesday) after two days of really good market action, but there's just no follow through. We rallied on a few pieces of news, but there's no sense of a broader recovery.

Brad Pitt

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

Koren Zailckas

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.

Diana Ross

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

Dean Koontz

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Brigham Young

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Dr. Lerner

Anger triggers a sense of certainty as well as a sense of control.

Dr. Brothers

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words

Victor Hugo

Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.

Hebrew Proverb

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

Roger Daltrey

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Saadi

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

Tom Perrotta

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341)

Swami Vivekananda

Religion is not in fault.

Theocritus

Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

Michelangelo

I criticise by creation, not by finding fault.

Plato

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Janet Reno

I would like to see the day ... where I can meet Elian, wherever he is, and sit down and talk to him, not about the tragedy and trauma that he has been through, but about himself and what his interests are, ... He is obviously a wonderful little boy.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

George Herbert

Better never begin than never make an end.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Conor Oberst

I want a lover I don't have to love

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Tom Hunter

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

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

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Alexander Pope

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Dean Martin

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

Andre Gide

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Erin Heatherton

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Kevin Keegan

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Charles Churchill

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Jane Addams

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.