Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Kozol

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.

Joyce Maynard

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Jean Stafford

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Raymond Chandler

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

James Duff

I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.

Jean Stafford

I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.

Washington Irving

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

David Jones

And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

Ken Ham

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Indian Proverb

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Karen Collins

Keep in mind that fortified foods should be treated like supplements only to help you meet nutrient needs you cannot otherwise meet not replace the goal of a balanced, plant-based diet.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

James Harris

I suspect this thing cannot get resolved very quickly. I doubt that the parent can get a (restructuring) plan filed very quickly unless their plan is just convert all that parent debt into equity.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Cato June

I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

Tim Abney

He could really be a force for us.

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Glen Hanlon

He keeps on doing stuff like this. Just when I thought I've seen it all, he does something else. He did a lot of things tonight that were pretty impressive. I think you got a pretty good idea of what a force he is.

Dee Haussler

Hastings itself actually provides a lot more jobs than what our labor force shows.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Joseph Smith

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.

Steve Perkins

He had better velocity than he's had and he had good location. Those guys are formidable hitters, and we knew that.

Jerry Polinard

In terms of a statewide race, I think he would be a formidable opponent. The problem he might have would be winning his primary.

Michael Palin

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

Ed Swanson

They can run or post you up. They're a very formidable team, out of a very strong conference.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Sir Williams

With Honda he has the potential to be a formidable competitor. We've worked with Honda in the past and they've proved they will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

John Williamson

He's been invisible when important policy issues have sprung up. They just seem to have missed opportunity after opportunity.

Johnny Christ

To be invisible so Rev could never find me.

O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Jason Catlett

It's intolerable that e-mail can be used to silently zap a name tag onto you that might be scanned by a site you visit later. It's like secretly bar-coding people with invisible ink,

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no invisible seams.

Paul Auster

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Leonardo da Vinci

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

Paul Celan

who is invisible enough to see you

Lord Byron

Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still

Roger Wyer

Joy is here now. We don't have to wait for the weekend.

Mike McGinnis

He was a joy to watch. Berger really had it going. He's going to be tough to stop.

Pope Benedict

Today I have the joy of presiding for the first time over a canonization rite.

Jean Killy

It is not an obligation but a joy

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

William Butler Yeats

he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'

Rob Halford

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Edward Furlong

I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Susan Hill

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

The Archives

know how to show you that they love you.

Farley Flex

Just the energypeople love you man, that's straight up.

Jen Kirkman

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

Dick Schaap

I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Rudolf Steiner

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Zac Posen

I am totally unattached to material items.

Caroline DeWaal

Physician-education material like this is a long time coming.

William Joyce

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Lionel Trilling

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

William Hall

I remember the 1950s. It seemed as if prosperity was the be all and end all. The idea was that if you had enough material goods, everything would be all right.

John Warner

I remain unchanged, defiantly unchanged. Let the raw material stay rough and raw.

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

Dennis Lillee

Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah, he offered me his liver. I said no thanks, I'll take my chances.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Pao Xiong

He offered me a lot of cash. I just called my supervisor, and he ran off.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

Noah Geary

What more powerful testament than her turning that offer down.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Steve Shields

I think we put a pretty reasonable offer on the table this week and they objected to it.

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Rick Warren

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Mark Batterson

Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Ron Otto

He could be a monster. He's a powerful, powerful pup.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

William P. Young

Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.

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"

Anton LaVey

How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

Anton LaVey

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Glen Mason

Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes something else in football,

Ronnie Arnold

Just when you think you've seen it all.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Naveen Chopra

What we've seen today is shocking. Ultimately it's down to how we keep strengthening our system to make it more stringent.

Tony Plath

What we've seen is a lot of pent-up demand.

Frank Solich

He's got composure. He's seen it all. He's responded to it all.

Dave Leitao

He's having not only a career, but particularly this season, a year for the ages. I've watched it, I've studied it on film and now I've seen it in person.

J. R. R. Tolkien

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Will Durant

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Tullian Tchividjian

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Saul Bellow

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Louise Erdrich

The universe is transformation.

Nhat Hanh

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Joseph Prince

You are transformed by beholding, not by working.

Elizabeth Gilbert

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.