Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kerr

Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Tom Daschle

It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Jim Talent

I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think it?s essential that it be an option.

Winston Churchill

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?

Art Larson

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Ken McBride

He wanted to cover more ground and make more cases. He was a man of action.

William A. Ward

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

Smiley Blanton

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Joel Rosenberg

The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, before she let them go.

Julie Rousseau

These players had goals they wanted to attain and they kept their eye on it. We kept pressing forward, even when times were bleak.

Rig Veda

All good, intellectual people come together at one place and try to bring harmony by means of exchange of thoughts and ideas. When all of them unite they progress rapidly and attain their aims. The external forces cannot harm them in any way.

Daniel Petrie

Not only do they have to attain the high creative level of individual writers, they have to do it week after week, often under enormous time pressures.

Mike Huston

It will be very difficult for this program to attain the same success because it sunk so far between Flanagan's tenure and mine. In a lot of respects, we're starting over. We started over four years ago.

Bhagavad Gita

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Nancy Gibbs

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Bob Dylan

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Proverb Proverbs

He who is born a fool is never cured

Robert Thompson

He is like a pig in slop in this thing -- this is clearly what he was born to do. When I first heard about 'The Apprentice' I thought it was a great idea for a show -- and I thought Donald Trump was going to stink the whole thing up. I was 100 percent wrong.

Carl Jung

This one is from the immortals series i cant remember what book. Damen to Ever While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't, ts a simple case of like gets like the ultimate balancing act, nothing more nothing less, and if your determined to fix every situation you deem as bad or difficult or some how unsavoury, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it or grow from it, some things no matter how painful happen for a reason.

William Irwin Thompson

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Yann Martel

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

Willie Nelson

What goes around, comes around.

Yehuda Berg

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.

Kurt Cobain

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Kevyn Aucoin

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Genie Francis

I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.

Henry Rollins

There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Anthony Fauci

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

Brenda Griffin

I can leave knowing that this school is operating smoothly.

Richard Paul Evans

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Russell Crowe

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Truman Capote

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

William Safire

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

Granth Sahib

I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

Richard DeVos

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Veronica Roth

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Ronald Reagan

We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.

Wendell Berry

The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.

William Penn

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Leonardo da Vinci

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

P. J. O'Rourke

We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.