Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Martha Stewart

My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.

Jim Marks

Multi-lender sites allow you to get a good look at the rate market. (Traditionally), it has taken a lot of time and effort to find out what rates are. You'd have to go to two or three different places and possibly even fill out an application each time.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

must not allow itself to be turned into an instrument in denying a nation of its inalienable right.

Hanna Rosin

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

John Thune

my hope would be that the president will allow the process to work.

J. H. Wyman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Brian Turner

Now, with those games out of the way, we want to keep watching these players when they return to their clubs and make sure they maintain the standards we expect and that they don't allow bad habits to creep in.

Drew Kesse

Negative things roll right off our family; we don't allow negative things. We're realistic; we understand it could go another direction. That just doesn't help anything.

Curtis Sumpter

That's what we came here for, ... We wanted to help put Villanova back on the map. We wanted to be a part of something special.

Kelly Mathews

That's why they're No. 1 in the state. We came out hot hitting our jump shots, but we knew they would make their run. Once they get a lead, it's tough to catch them.

Raja Bell

That takes some wind out of your sails when you have a game in your hand. I've been on the other side of that. You're on a five-game losing streak. You can taste it. You're right there and you let it slip. We knew if we came out and got a couple stops (in overtime) that we had a chance to put a dagger in them.

Ryan Potulny

That's not at all true. We had the deal started before that announcement even came out. That had nothing to do with it.

Liz Shimek

That's just something that kind of comes with the package. As a freshman, I came in and said one of my rules was to rebound. But that's what it's about here, everyone doing what they can do to win.

Peggy Buryj

That's how it's recorded, but that's not what I was told. We were told it was suspected that it came from the Polish sector.

Henry Uhegwu

That's how we want to play. We know they can score, and we know we can score. So we just want to play at our pace. Things just came together tonight.

Greg Williams

That Murphy is everything we thought he would be, ... does a good job, but in the end, we came out on top.

Jamie Thompson

You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very important thing because we were not doing well, we were not having fun and we were not playing good hockey. To turn it around like we have is very nice, but we still have to remember that in November, we were a terrible hockey team and we have to remember the reasons why we were a terrible hockey team. It's because we weren't doing the little things that we're doing now.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Sedaris

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

Amory Lovins

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Anthea Turner

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

Anthony Braxton

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Andy Stanley

Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

Angela Ahrendts

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Ang Lee

Every movie I make, that’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand but feel most at home.

Anatole Broyard

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.