Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

Colm Keaveney

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Francis J. Grimke

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Sean Covey

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Roger Wicker

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Patrick Carman

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.

Holly Edwards

We've learned a lot about how weather affects counts, and really refined our calculations about the weather and the days that we fly, I can't say it's not a possibility that there were 3,000 manatees in 1991.

Tim Roberts

We're watching to see if and how it affects domestic steel.

Willie Mays

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

William Scott

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

William Scott

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

William Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Ivan Allen

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

John C. Calhoun

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

Barack Obama

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Barack Obama

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Rand Paul

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Jessica Laws

That was the closest meet I've ever seen. I don't have words to describe it.

Daymond Langkow

That was probably the closest thing to a playoff game all year.

Chris Martin

We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

Morris Johnson

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies. I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

Morris Johnson

I was the one who interceded in helping move the bodies, ... I had to locate the closest relative and get permission to move them to another cemetery.

Mary Ellen Mark

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Steve Long

We're closest to the ground. We're the people who actually have hands-on experience with Ford workers.

Michael Nash

Unfortunately, the national conference only takes the top two teams and no one placed in the top five. Our closest winner was Dominique Rivers who finished 20th in Fundamental Word Processing.

Paul Edwards

Well, look around and find the closest trash can and throw it in there and start over.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

David Selby

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show.

Chris Clarke

We have tremendous respect for the president's concerns and opinions. They have been and always will be very important to us,

Mike McCormack

We had one fatality there and a lot of concerns about near misses." ()

Jane Johnson

We have the opportunity now to have some input, to listen to what's happening, offer up some of our concerns and have them addressed before the rules are put in place. This is important information.

Bennie Thompson

to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

Dave Kvamme

With the great societal concerns about impacts on fisheries and other wildlife, its not likely we are going to see many new hydroelectric projects developed. We're not planning any.

John Steiner

We have had more concerns come in since the fatality Tuesday night, but as far as the process of doing the work, we're still on the same schedule of this spring, this summer, for possibly getting out there getting the work done.

Lindsay Shearer

We have had concerns about the safety and effectiveness of pill splitting but are re-evaluating our position right now.

Sylvester Croom

The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.

Colin Firth

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Nancy Gibbs

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Frank Lowy

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bernadette Devlin

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Jim Vaughan

That was just a courageous shot. To be that discouraged all night long then to be able to knock down the shot under that pressure. That was a huge shot by a senior that wasn't ready to be done.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Victoria Osteen

God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Pete Harpolis

That was in 2002, and to date, we haven't had any failures since we proof tested this cable.

Zhang Yadong

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past,

Rick Perry

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Richard Russo

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Maude Adams

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Brandon Jennings

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Todd Dillon

That would have been our fault - it comes down to that.

Rebecca H. Davis

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Bob Hansmann

U.S. workers are a more cavalier about opening things. There's a high level of trust that IT is protecting them, or worse, they just don't think that it's their fault when something goes wrong.

Demetrius Serrano

When that happened I thought the game was over. I thought it was going to be my fault that we were going to lose the game.

Scottish Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Jessica Dickson

We have come a long way with this program. But there are still plenty of places that we need to go.

Thad Cochran

You just couldn't be in two places at once,

Mark Smith

Wiltshire remains one of the safety places to live in the country.

Scott Hatteberg

Those are two places we haven't played well, ... so we're really going to have to buckle down.

Drew Brees

To have a better road record with all the places we played is ridiculous.

Tom Foley

Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq.

Granth Sahib

Whatever He places within them, that is what prevails, and so they outwardly appear.

Keith Coleman

We try to put them in places where they'll be useful and unobtrusive.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

Mike Phelan

Winchester is always strong at doubles. They don't really have any superstars, but they have strength up and down the lineup.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Nelson Gonzalez

We know our strengths and know our weaknesses and one of our weaknesses has been supply chain.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.