Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Ezra Taft Benson

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

David A. Bednar

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

Joe Hart

The police were here 60 seconds after they attempted to break in.

Tony Blair

The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Brad Lewis

That was a smart thing (for prosecutors) to do. It'll take away another avenue of questioning in cross.

Rebecca H. Davis

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Brian Byrd

We wanted to move out of the 6th Avenue Y. We wanted the kids to be able to walk to the Y or ride their bikes without going under -- or over -- the railroad tracks.

Kurt Billick

Michigan Avenue are serious players in the aluminum industry, but without any details of the bid or the source of the funding it is difficult to evaluate.

Dave Hobbs

It has opened more avenues to the basket for dribble penetration. We have been more efficient in our transition offense.

David Murphy

We have another contract starting in July for 12th Avenue extending from the south side of Bridge Street down to Cedar Street. We?re hoping to start that project early, if we can get this one done before its deadline.

Robert Daskas

We are doing the same thing now, but he's found a different avenue to do it.

Ed Wade

It figures to be a slower-developing market just from the standpoint that if a player and his representatives feel that he's the key in the market, they're going to want to make sure the last dollar's on the table and that teams have exhausted other avenues to try to improve.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Igor Luksic

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

Geoff Davis

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

Bob Schieffer

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Kaufman

We have a new campaign that started in the past couple of days, called Interns,

Joe Trippi

We have a national campaign, and running a national campaign is more expensive than running in just a couple of states.

Bob Marcusse

We could not have imagined a few years ago that the Dream It Do It campaign would lead to this, but it has, and we are grateful and pleased.

Roger Stone

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

John Edward

Today, the voters of Wisconsin sent a clear message. The message is this -- objects in your mirror may be closer than they appear, ... They want a debate. They want this campaign to continue. They want someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Andrew Card

We have a lot of priorities that would come before campaign finance reform, but we do respect the leadership that John McCain has offered in this area, ... Face the Nation.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

John Dawson

The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.

Bruce Braley

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Dennis Ross

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Noah Feldman

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Gore Vidal

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

Bertrand Russell

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Donald Trump

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Bill Price

We have ample liquidity to finance the turnaround. We have sequential growth last quarter and have strong results from service providers.

Tim Smith

We have a lot of strength in our finance department, and I'm sure we will be looking at all of our possibilities.

Diep Kiet

We have called on enterprises with big resources in terms of production as well as finance to join the case.

Ruben Hinojosa

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Jack McCann

I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Department) of Finance and Administration would send us packages and that our officers would be paid every two weeks.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

S. Walker

We do most of our own work. Only specialty work is sublet out to other contractors.

Derek Moyers

We really think, if we can stay healthy, it can be a special season.

Zac Taylor

We have something special going here, so we're just going to keep going.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.