Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dole

I have ... been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart -- by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.

Ahmed Ben Bella

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Bhagavad Gita

Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.

John O. Brennan

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

Muqtada al Sadr

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

John Milton

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, / And weaponless himself, / Made arms ridiculous.

Bible Bible

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.

Cervantes Saavedra

Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?

Gwen Stefani

L.A.M.B. is a fashion line that -- fingers crossed -- will just get more and more sophisticated, ... What's different than what's out there is the way I put things together. And, if you look inside the pants, you'll find secret details in there.

Tobias Crabtree

What you're seeing is a crossroads here between Wall Street analysts focused on the next quarter and long-term investors focused on the next three to five years.

Whoopi Goldberg

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

James Tate

I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

Andre Miller

I was just trying to make a play. I was trying to set him up to cross over and he did and I got the steal.

Kellie Pickler

'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.

Roy Hunn

He was just a soft-spoken, wonderful American. Every day or night, he'd go out on his walks. (But) it's dangerous to cross on a green light, much less a red one.

Leon Murray

I don't even want to look down that road right now. I will cross that whenever I have to but right now my focus is on trying to win the starting job.

Reid Hoffman

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

John Fusco

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Nas

Read more learn more, change the globe

Clive Thompson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Gillian Zinser

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Tommy Amaker

I thought our veterans led the way for us with a lot of toughness and heart.

Drew Sullivan

He's been incredible for us all year. He's been the heart and soul of our team.

William Wilberforce

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing,

Warren Beaulah

We may just have to let him wear No. 44. I told him before the season that I have a lot of expectations for him. He hasn't quite met them.

Keith Richards

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

Gerald Myers

The first time I talked to her over the phone, and before I met her, I was thinking this is the person we want for this job. To be honest, we didn't go much further.

M. Powell

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Xavier Perkins

It was just the way I was treated. When I first met him, it didn't seem like he only wanted me for basketball. It seemed like he wanted to get to know me.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Pete Sampras

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

Suranand Vejjajiva

When the prime minister sold his shares, people didn't understand it was a private matter. We were quite off-message at first.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Chamlong Srimuang

I don't know how many nights we will have to remain here but we will go on rallying until the prime minister resigns.

Will Ferrell

Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?

Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Oliver Hoyte

He has so many different running styles. On one play he's running like a scat back. On one play he's running like a power back. He's a versatile back.

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Dennis Tomasevicz

The town of Shelby has just been unreal.

Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Bill Walsh

We aren't willing to concede it won't be ready.