Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Gary Brown

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Rich Beem

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Stieg Larsson

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

J. Horton

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Don Morrow

I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish; that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.

Carine Roitfeld

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

Stephen Breyer

I have to, of course, describe the views of those who disagree with my approach.

Bow Wow

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Bob Sanders

I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.

Shawn Logue

I'm great. One more match and I'm in the finals. You can't have a better feeling than this on the first day. Going undefeated and everything, it's a fantastic feeling. I don't know how to describe it.

Josh Brown

I'm ecstatic, there aren't words to describe it. It's an unbelievable feeling.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

James Jones

I think that when you play a team a second time, and the first time you play them you destroy them, your psyche isn't in the right place. We all knew that this game wouldn't be easy, and that we would have to play harder than we did in the first game, but we didn't do that.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Fats Domino

Hurricane Katrina led a path of destruction through my home. However, she would not destroy my faith in God and my love of music and my fans.

Richard Boucher

He says it doesn't matter if people are socialist -- we're going to fight together with them to destroy everything that we can.

Nicholas Burns

He gave a pardon to his son-in-law and then had him executed. He tried to make up with the Iraqi Kurds five years ago, and then tried to destroy them.

Anthony Shaffer

In my view, there's no reason to destroy the (

Lowell Feld

If you could repair it faster than they could destroy it, you'd win the battle. But you can't.

Kathy Lerew

I just don't understand taking things. Go find a job. Why destroy people's lives?

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Aldo Radamus

It is Julia's first year on the national team, and she's been successful in downhill.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Hurt

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

Phil Ramon

We had some National Guardsmen here, but they were unarmed.

Jorunn Christoffersen

These paintings are national treasures, but also international icons.

Aldo Radamus

That's really respectable for his first time at national championships.

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Samuel Johnson

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

William Ralph Inge

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Rick Riordan

Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Jim Hood

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi,

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Estelle

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Randy Degasperin

At the time, she was not deemed a threat to others.

John Gage

This threat of cronyism and patronage, I don't think it's a threat anymore. I think it's a promise.

Suzanne Vega

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Tim Kaine

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.