Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Diablo Cody

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

Benjamin Walker

People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

Cher

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

Beth Henley

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Bjork

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Beth Henley

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Natasha Trethewey

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Bible Bible

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Jack Bishop

She was a divorced single mother of three at 22. She worked numerous jobs to support us.

Miguel

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Damien Chazelle

I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

Neko Case

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

Tina Turner

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

Gene Ween

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Matt Bowman

We're in a funk, definitely. I don't even know what to say. We can hit the ball. We proved that earlier in the season. But we're still confident. We've got our heads up and we're looking toward tomorrow.

Jermaine Dye

When he first hit it, I thought it was probably gone. It had just gotten cold. Maybe earlier when it was warm it would have gone out.

William Giles

We're still comfortable with the performance and expect Montecito to offer a 2X performance improvement over earlier versions of Itanium.

Eduardo Sanchez

We're seeing a lot of influenza earlier in the season than usual,

Joy Bauer

Women worry earlier, so they are more knowledgeable about good nutrition at an earlier age.

Reporters Borders

At an earlier hearing he had been handed down a sentence, since cancelled, of 30 years imprisonment on exactly the same charge.

Jason Smith

It's kind of a mindset of getting back to doing that, because that's how we were winning games earlier this season.

M. Wolfe

It's just a little sprain. Playing through it isn't going to be too bad. ... Earlier in the week, there was a little pain, but it's starting to get better.

Phil Pergola

They played a lot last year but they've come a long way this year. They've matured, not so much physically as mentally. Of course, we never know with this team. Earlier in the season, we played some great games, then we'd come out flat.

Michael Deaver

When we were engaged in the intensive parts of the investigation or trial preparation, I did not have time for anything else.

Richard Peddie

What we're missing out on is the single game sales and when you start the season 1-15, that doesn't get the heart racing. People aren't engaged yet.

John Barton

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

Mark Shapiro

We're still engaged in conversations with a few clubs. By the end of the week, we should have some resolution to that.

Donald Rumsfeld

They have engaged in a number of such raids and have been successful in at least nine that I know of, ... They intend to proceed in an orderly way.

Joseph Jackson

It was a way to get faculty engaged in negotiating third-party contracts. The good news is over the last three years we have major successes in contracting.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Ira Sorkin

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Judith Clark

It's been talked about, but we haven't gotten there yet.

Noe Cerezo

It's just a matter of time. The kids are getting it together and it's one of those things that half of them don't have the experience. They can play, it's just sometimes you need the experience, too, and it's gotten better every time.

Jacob Cruz

It's just one of those things where it's just gotten worse and worse. It got to a point where I don't think I could probably play out there for nine innings.

Rob Davis

A lot of schools are interested in him because of his speed and strength. He could have gotten a lot more yards Friday, but we didn't want to show too much.

Jeff Hawkins

The young guys were really anxious. But I think they've gotten over their stage fright. They'll be calmer this time.

Mike Hatch

They never have been particularly interested in our input, and I don't know how we would have been able to give input had they asked, ... There's no way we should have gotten involved.

Shaw Wu

They had to do this to reset expectations -- things had gotten a little out of hand. I think that it was the prudent thing to do.

Arthur Vint

This has been great. We've gotten a lot of promotion out of it.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Akon

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Akira Kurosawa

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

Akio Morita

Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Aaron Boone

Yeah, I think I knew. I saw the sign and the announcers.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Belle Boyd

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

Barbra Streisand

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Ali Khamenei

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

Doc Hastings

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Conrad Burns

I never got a lot done using a broomstick. You've got to have something that's lethal.

Edward Gorey

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Stanley Clarke

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Francis Parkman

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Sean Salisbury

When you see yourself on a trailer at the movie theatre, you're kind of like, 'What? Man, this is amazing!' And it's a pretty significant role.

Casey Wilson

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Kevin Collier

It will actually be on two flatbed trailers and will be able to go wherever they need us to go.

William James

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Alan Greenspan

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alan Arkin

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

Alan Arkin

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Ball

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Al Roker

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Al Lewis

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Akshay Kumar

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

Akshay Kumar

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.