Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jim Kolbe

They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.

James Awad

This Iranian issue is lurking as tension in the background. It's going to keep oil higher until it works its way out.

Tom Schrader

They're taking oil higher because of the inventory numbers, ... but the thing with oil is that there's a lot of whipping and sawing in the oil pits, a lot of things pushing oil around.

Mark Tolbert

They said that it might have higher than it should have been.

Mitsushige Akino

It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rather... they are waiting for results, worried about rising oil prices and higher interest rates.

Rex Osborn

There was no risk or any concern. The livestock there went to higher ground.

Susan Gunderson

There's a higher likelihood that (blood profiles) will match within your own minority population.

Loretta Worters

It's all about how much your pocketbook can afford. You can take a higher deductible, but if you have an accident, you are going to pay a little more.

Dwane Casey

We always hold out hope. Mathematically we're still in it. Every time we walk out on the floor, we're playing for something and we're playing for improvement.

Dave Sanchez

We started today in third. We just couldn't hold on to that lead.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Kevin Towers

We're not going to rush him. We're not going to hold him back, either. But I'd like to see him get more innings at the professional level.

Ertharin Cousin

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

James Blake

Wow ... that would be something. I?d think we?d need to hold a big party at Fairfield High. It would be huge.

Mark Rodgers

We're still sitting tight to see how this is going to break. We're kind of in a holding pattern.

David Briggs

We're still in that pattern. Everyone is on hold and waiting for the next (quarterly results) pre-announcement season in September.

Anne Bacon

We're still holding out hope and praying for their release.

Kevin Hamilton

The reason for that is if there is a strike, you want to be 1st in line to take whatever Northwest offers as a possible option.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Keith Primeau

We're not going to survive with one line scoring goals. We need to get offense from other places.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Charlaine Harris

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Marcus Giles

It's just a finger. It's not a hamstring or a knee. It's just a finger. I've got nine more.

Drake Bell

'Drake and Josh' was strictly nine to five. We'd go in and know what we were doing, and 'Superhero Movie' was just nuttiness every day because there's a joke every ten seconds.

John O'Connell

The thing about him is he's so unselfish. He's only averaging about nine or 10 shots a game.

Alex Rodriguez

I've always said that for a short series, because of Randy, we become more problematic for other teams. But at the same time, you've got to go out and play nine innings.

Mark Eaton

After nine years I think it's time to give someone else the chance.

Bob Thomason

Sanders didn't play the first nine games, but he's back and playing at a different level.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Don Lynn

About 99 percent of the returns are electronically filed.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Steve Botkin

They got out on the perimeter and spread us out pretty well. We just didn't shoot very well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

They shoot it more than us, and they shoot it better.

Larry Brown

They shoot 55 percent, it's going to be a tough night.

Bob Martin

They didn't shoot at us, and we didn't shoot at them.

Allen Iverson

You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.

Kendall Simmons

You can't let them get rolling. Once they get that two or three yards, you need to shoot them with a bazooka to stop them.

Maureen Allyn

This may be what throws us into recession.

Dan Hawkins

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Ashley Lewie

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

Dave Odom

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It's one of those things: He wasn't here on time, so he doesn't start. That throws Renaldo back in there.

Carroll Ballard

It throws me in the toilet. I'm going to have a lot of trouble getting another picture.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Frank Molinaro

It's exciting. We just try to get one another to turn it up a bit.

Shannon Davis

They did that for me, (so) why turn my back on them?

Mike Piazza

You don't want to turn away from it. You may want to and no one would begrudge you if you did. But you shouldn't do that. I think I'm a better person because of what I went through.

Leighton Reese

This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.

Marc Chandler

There's been a turn in psychology. It has been buy-the-dips. Now it is sell-the-rallies.

Nick Hunter

As Don Meredith used to say, turn out the lights, the party?s over.

Randy Stone

As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.