Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Max Cobb

Historically, there was a difference in the percent back between the men and women, so we were trying to equalize that. That was the concept. ... But today, it doesn't look the same. Rachel built her case and we supported that, but the Olympic committee didn't feel like they could make a change.

Kathy Sierra

It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ... We sang to some people there people from everywhere. Everybody liked it. A few people cried. It was real emotional.

Drew Goddard

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.

Ed DeChellis

There are a lot of positive things you can look at. We've built a foundation and now have put the sides up. We just have to keep moving.

Fred Wilson

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

Cecil Roberts

We built the middle class down here and we're not prepared to give it up.

Rep. Detert

We built the field of dreams and they came. We now need to fund the maintenance of facilities or they will go.

Jeffrey Skilling

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Vince Carter

Looks like he lost a little weight. Looks lighter, quicker on his feet. He's going to be a tough guy to stop. It's close to that time now, so I guess he's getting in playoff form.

Lee Slider

Many people are drawn to this game. We were the first club in Illinois, and now there are close to eight.

Russel Conwell

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Tim Sampson

Many people will move here and self-select here because they want to be close to Metro.

Andrew Mitchell

Shareholders will not be happy with anything close to the current offer.

Daniel Donovan

Scott found a Superfund site vacant for many years and not on the tax rolls. It matched all our criteria. It's close to transmission lines and highways.

John Malkovich

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.

Roger Nelson

So few people have seen a kangaroo up close or in the wild and the more we worked with them, the more fascinated we became,

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Sam Shepard

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Rupert Sheldrake

So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

Russ Feingold

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Rush Limbaugh

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

Thomas Mann

If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time—and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air..

Thomas Merton

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

Thomas Carlyle

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Thomas Carlyle

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.