Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Ham

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Larry Sabato

Kerry's great advantage, despite what some people say, is that the threshold is low. People who have decided to vote against Bush are looking for an acceptable candidate, not another Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Christopher Reed

When they got into the hallway, they saw blood on the floor, so they knew the information they had was good, ... Abraham Gomez was in the basement apartment. They brought him outside.

Sam Waterston

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.

Bible Bible

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Bible Bible

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Bible Bible

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: / And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Bible Bible

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

Christopher Brooks

I was in the process of tying it to my fishing rod, when I turn around and this Coast Guard boat was right behind me, ... It was the one thing I was hoping for and I guess it was like, 'Oh, well, here they are.'

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Alison Parker

Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy cigarettes, they are too young to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Patrick McEnroe

I wouldn't say it's been haunting us, but it was certainly a difficult loss. We obviously had a great team. But, you know, that is behind us.

Ron Prince

I wouldn't read too much into who's doing what with what group. We're trying to get all the quarterbacks the opportunity to play with different combinations. It's only what's fair to them when you're going to be behind a group that hasn't been blocking together but for two weeks.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped. The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

Derrick Mason

Jamal looks like he's in shape and prepared, considering his offseason circumstances. He looks like he wants to play football and put everything behind him. Now, he can actually strap it on and nothing is holding him back.

Glen Campbell

I was in Studio 3 cutting a song with, I think, the Irish Rovers, ... I saw a record on the wall in the hall by Johnny Rivers. It had this song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And that made me curious. I wondered if it was about the city or the bird. So I listened to it, and I cried because it made me homesick. And if you can cry to Johnny Rivers, you know that's a good song. I recorded it the next day. And lo and behold it was one of the biggest records I ever had.

Josh Fox

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

Connie Correll

The industry wasn't built around the government and historically hasn't been regulated by the government. It prides itself for not being beholden to Washington.

Bible Bible

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Benjamin Franklin

All Mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the Good.

Chris Reynolds

It's hard to envisage how even any kind of technology we can conceive of now could harness this. The first thing you need is a black hole, and we can't make them yet. The only thing we can envision now is to sit back and behold the wonder of nature at being able to do this.

Bhagavad Gita

Do not be perturbed and deluded by seeing such a terrible form of Mine as this. With fearless and cheerful mind, now behold My four-armed form.

Guru Singh

All the living beings of the world behold the True Guru.

Saint Augustine

And behold you were within me,and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Phil Cox

What I saw was village after village which has been burnt down,

Stephen Bayley

It is Margaret Thatcher's fault, ... Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given short shrift, as short as the trade unions: nothing including old-fashioned industry was to obstruct economic progress. Making things was slow. There were quicker ways to get rich...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Tim Anderson

I had the good fortune of knocking my 2-3-foot putt in on the last hole and Doug's just burnt the edge. He was a great competitor.

Luis Padilla

The first place I went to was to the tower because I had to take a picture of the tower lit burnt orange and then I came over here.

Rajeev Gupta

Supply to capital is extremely scarce. The reason for that has a lot to do with the fact that the people who supply the capital have already been burnt once and are trying to get out.

Eric Patterson

I've done this for five years now. You keep doing the same thing over and over, with the traveling, and you get burnt out. So I might relax and get away from it and then come back and go full force.

Stacey Peters

It's a lot better when they are running. You can smell the fuel. You can smell the burnt rubber. Ideally, the students can feel, hear, see and smell how calculus works.

Jane Wiedlin

I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.

Bobby Kielty

I would say the Steroid Era is over. If it isn't, these people are going to get caught. You are going to be caught and you are going to pay. If you are dumb enough to take steroids, you are going to pay the price. The penalties outweigh the benefits.

Romeo Crennel

Just sitting out there, I saw a couple of throws that caught your eye.

Dave Sarachan

Jordan caught our eye at the combine. He could be a sleeper in this draft. We were looking for a defender to get ourselves stronger in the back.

Tom Sawyer

I think it all just caught us off-guard last week. We thought we could just turn it on, but you have to prepare for it,

Gary Ballough

It caught us off-guard at the last second. Living here, I should've known the wind was going to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.

Pat Vredevoogd

It caught me off guard when I saw those numbers. But then I realized that in my own practice, I've been working with a lot of single women lately; young women just out of college, widows wanting to downsize, divorced women who are starting over. So, I see no reason why this trend shouldn't continue.

Paul McGriff

It caught me completely off guard. I had no idea it was going to be me.

Dario Franchitti

It caught me by surprise, because I've never had the back end come around like that there. It's going to make it a hard day (today).

Rashad Williams

He used to play sports, now he can't play sports anymore. At that time it was track season for me, so I related his situation to mine: What if that would have been me? I would have missed out on the whole track season and everything, so his (situation) really caught my attention.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Larry McReynolds

He (Wallace) has fire in his eyes and wants go out a a winner.

Paul Tagliabue

He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time.

Teller

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Laurence Olivier

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Jewish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Yiddish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth

Deke Routheaux

He's a good one. We had to keep our eyes on him.

Jerry Jones

Her eyes were wide open. And she was looking right at me, and I realized that she was losing her life,

Doug Biega

His spirits are lifted. He's got the weight of the world lifted off his shoulders.

Ellen Locke

Patients love it, families, my staff, of course. It's a nice morale-booster. It's kind of lifted spirits throughout the year.

Gerhard Schroeder

Our opinion is that the sanctions that have been placed no longer make any sense and that they should be lifted as soon as possible,

Tom Daly

I love these (new) plans because the veil is lifted on everything.

Gregory Olsen

I lifted weights, I did crunches, and I ran.

David Brown

It kind of skipped and hopped, touched down and lifted back up. So there was not really a trail, but you can see where it went.

Luk Boral

It was like a stone lifted off my back.

Chris Gill

It's like 100 pounds has been lifted off our shoulders.

Nate Dahlman

It's like the whole world is lifted off his shoulders. Now he's thinking about prom, he's thinking about the green-and-white (of Michigan State). He's looking forward, and that's what young people should be doing.

Wayne Wilson

He was offered scholarships by Colgate and Niagara, but he wants to be an engineer, so he picked us.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Z. Sheppard

I offered my services, but they were declined. Of course, they had (Catholic actress) Helen Hayes,

Peter Phillips

International partners, such as the FBI, have indicated and offered their services in facilitating the Caribbean's preparation for the World Cup.

Bebe Neuwirth

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

Roy Harper

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

Lori White

If Qwest offered voluntary overtime, I think they'd find enough people to take it,

Mick McCarthy

I have never seen it, I have never been offered and never been asked. If he has got something to tell, then he should tell the authorities.

Jim Ecker

There was a plea that was offered to us by the DA and we rejected it.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Walter Lippmann

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

incorrect, wrong, shameful. ... I am now offering my sincere apologies.

Khaled Hosseini

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.

Narendra Modi

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.

Jacque Fresco

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.

Eddie Bellamy

The only time that ramp actually works right is at about half-tide and above.

Stan Kroenke

I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis,

John Steinbeck

You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.

Jeaniene Frost

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

David Mamet

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

Daniel Ortega

Rambo only exists in the movies.

Rich Brooks

There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Solomon Jones

We took them for granted. If we don't play hard, we took them for granted.

Norv Turner

We took a look at all 16 of them,