Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

William Empson

So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall be Whose unity endures. Always the sister doll will cry, Made in these careful ways, Cry on and on, Come back to me, Come back, in a few days.

Bob Carnes

I've been lucky these days to have my brother Skip come up and run the company while I do the hard part, which is the fishing.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Chris Lilley

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

John Harrison

We have victims from around the country, as well as from outside the country. They (scam artists) promise the world, but can never deliver. They victimize communities; they victimize families and the elderly in particular,

Jane Fonda

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Mark Bell

The whole goalie was in the net, so I'm sure the puck was in there with him. I've never seen a goalie freeze the puck with his pad.

Michael Schroeder

This governor got a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

Pat Cleland

That game involved two teams with very strong wills. It's a shame a game like that has to come down to free throws at the end.

Derek Fisher

The missed free throws gave the first half a funky kind of tone.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

J. Horton

As long as I'm working hard and doing other stuff, I feel good about myself, I don't get down.

Geno Auriemma

As it should be. When you've played here the longest, you should have a pretty good idea what to do. If you're going to be a good team, you have to do that.

Gerald Barzan

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Von Graffin

As I recall, Gregg didn't have everyone. We got them at a good time. Besides, sum- mer time is summer time. This is when it counts.

Pat Hill

That place erupts when things are going good for the Ducks, ... But those environments are the kind of places you want to play in.

Tim Lewis

That was a big win for us. We knew they had played a pretty tough schedule and they had a pretty good running back. But we were able to do some things and I thought we played pretty well.

Darren Sharper

Randy is in his own league. But there are still a lot of good receivers in the division.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Confucius

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Ann Aguirre

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Thomas Huxley

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Troy Johnson

It would mainly be for people who already live and work in the Mankato area.

Mike May

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

George Hayes

I'm mainly trying to get the word out to people, ... Look in your pantries and linen closets. Go to the store. What are some things you have that someone down there needs even more than you? What can you do without.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Terry Teachout

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Charles R. Swindoll

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Mike Foster

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

D. J. MacHale

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Shaul Mofaz

If we don't have quiet, the terror organisations will not know quiet,

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Grant Morrison

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

Vladimir Lenin

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Bill Richardson

The war on terror is unlike any war we've ever faced,

Mahatma Gandhi

Apparently, I've acted like a terrorist. But I'm not a terrorist.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All beginnings are very troublesome things ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Janis Ian

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

Damon Lindelof

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

Bob Dole

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Arthur Schopenhauer

...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.