Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Ogden Nash

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

Lloyd Coker

Technology at our call centers is much better suited to handle outage calls. We don't want to create more difficulties for people.

Trot Nixon

As for my oblique, everything felt fine. I felt good in (right field). I caught a few fly balls, too. I felt reasonably comfortable at the plate. I'm happy with my day and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Corey Brewer

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.

Erik Hassle

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.

Thomas Newkirk

There are more financial misstatements and fraud now. There was a time it was a rare day to get caught in a fraud case. In the last year or two lots of big capitalization, nationally known companies have been involved in financial fraud.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

William Stafford

You happy beings, watch every face for those you pass caught in the midst of life by some horror, their souls gone dim, cursed or unlucky, exiled under a stone.

Amy Teegarden

We just got the rule today, so we're trying to get caught up on what the new OHV rules say, especially as they relate to the local level.

Scott Ritter

We had the information. We had the goods on the Iraqis, clear and irrefutable evidence of Iraq's prohibited activities. We caught them red-handed.

Chris Baca

We stayed with them for 30 minutes even though we had only 10 players on the field. But in overtime it may have caught up with us.

Julie Gerberding

As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again.

Al Rauch

Dragging your 10-year-old to get a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease could have some groups pretty upset.

John Green

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Bruce Barton

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

Thomas Paine

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Tom O'Connor

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Hippocrates

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Fannie Farmer

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

Chris Howard

Never insult a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes, that way when you insult him, your a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Hillary Clinton

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz.

Jean Cocteau

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Kirsten Dunst

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

Marc Almond

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Quintilian

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

Blaise Pascal

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Donna Tartt

…still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…

e. e. cummings

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Andrea Bocelli

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Dorothy Day

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Andrew Bird

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Robert A. Heinlein

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

Roland Barthes

Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.