Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

I think they want support from the U.N.. They think the U.N. has a role to play in helping them understand these problems and also in working out compromises and concerns amongst themselves.

Andrew Ferguson

The rank and file members of the club have the capacity to determine whether the proposal has merit or otherwise ... however, we appeal to all concerned to conduct their campaign in a manner which avoids unnecessary division and antagonism amongst supporters, including sponsors, after the issue is decided.

Mary Pierce

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Nicholas Hoult

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

Jack Peter

We look forward to learning the results of this year's class so we can begin the process of their induction and most importantly, begin preparing to preserve their legacies amongst the game's greatest players and contributors.

Rob Reiner

We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Sathya Baba

I am a man amongst men, when they see Me, I appear as a man. Amongst woman, I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone, I am God. This is the truth about Me.

Steven King

He has been there and we know he handles it. You look at the statistics, he is right amongst it. Put it this way, there's a lot of ticks next to him.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

John Deacon

When we finished the album, the Night at the Opera album, that was the track on it that we thought we were gonna release as a single in England first.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Jeremy Spencer

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Jeff Beck

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Keith Emerson

I guess when Rick is finished with his Journey to the Centre of the Earth, then we might have a go at something. We'd like to, we're open to it, and we've been talking about it.

David Knopfler

In the early days I really enjoyed the freedoms it offered because I was happy to work the long hours as long as I was working from home a lot.

Yusuf Islam

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.

Edward King

There are supplements that have been shown to have significant health benefits. We empower consumers with the knowledge they need to find and choose supplements that are safe and appropriate for their needs.

Wilson Mizner

God sends our relatives, but we can choose our friends.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Mark Oaten

It is a disgrace that the Government should choose the day on which the Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned to conceal these findings.

Upinder Dhillon

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

John B. Robinson

Whatever gods you worship, you realize that they are your gods, the product of your own mind, terrible or amiable, as you may choose to depict them.

David Boies

What Microsoft set out to do through these contracts, and largely succeeded for the time they were in effect, was to deprive consumers of the right to choose between Microsoft and Navigator.

Jeff Chirico

The people in New Hope have been very supportive and have been overwhelmingly helpful in helping us to choose the right people to interview and to come up with a good story and really cooperating better than we could have ever imagined.

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Wilbur

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Truman Capote

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Spencer Tillman

I know, ... I'm the hurricane. I'm going to be more popular than my husband.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity is objective.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Jim Wilson

He would ramble back and forth. He was in one subject and out of one subject.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.