Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Meyer

We started off with losses to two very good football teams, but we told the boys, 'One game at a time,' and that's the way we're approaching it. They're getting better every week. Our kids work really had and they absorb everything we're trying to teach them. I'm probably the happiest 2-2 coach in the state of Michigan.

Shawn Campbell

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Rodrigo Rato

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

Tom DeLay

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

Neneh Cherry

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

Moshe Sharett

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

Proverb Proverbs

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Matt Griffin

We're going to continue to put a lot on them mentally and see how they absorb it and how they react on the field.

Tom Hines

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

Jeff Nigbur

There were about 15 separate crashes up and down there.

John Andrew

There were still 385 alcohol-related crashes this year and 418 deaths in those crashes... that's more than one a day.

Greg Biffle

This is what people pay their money to come see ... is big crashes at Talladega, ... Everybody loves it.

Kasey Kahne

It was really a pathetic year. Some of the things I did some of the crashes I was in I didn't need to be in. I forced the issue.

Bob Thompson

Of the nine people killed in crashes during the 2004 New Year's holiday, six, or 67 percent, were involved in alcohol-related crashes.

Fred Zimny

The speeds are very high, and crashes happen. There's an element of fear, and some kids can't overcome that.

Eric Maskin

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

Sean Comey

Young, inexperienced drivers are much more likely to be in fatal crashes at this time of year.

Irv Slosberg

We have a public safety crisis here in Florida. Fatal crashes are up 10 percent this year.

Charles Caleb Colton

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Dickens

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Charles Dickens

Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

Charles Spurgeon

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

China Mieville

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

Edith Wharton

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Bill O'Reilly

President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Richard Foreman

Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward.

Michael Ian Black

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Denis Waitley

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Courtney Cassard

We wanted to use the front part on weekends and holidays for recruitment where it would be kind of a lobby where people could go get information about Nicholls.

Brene Brown

Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

Nick Robinson

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience.

Carol Berg

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

Graeme Smith

When we get back home in front of our supporters, we're going to be playing for a win. We're going to back ourselves, we're going to be confident, we're going to stand up and we're not going to back down.

Sam Endicott

When we first started we'd play in front of 200 people and we were nervous,

Mark Black

What'll shock you though is when kids do do things bad, they'll do it front of a camera.

Dana Hayter

Unless Microsoft pulls a major rabbit out of its hat tomorrow, the judge will sign off on what the government put in front of him.

Jim Roberts

Yep. To do what they did, especially to come into the season where there a lot of expectations, I think the kids did a great job of handling things right in front of them. I think that is what has enabled them to get to this point.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Grady Booch

It's the inevitable path of all software engineering,

Robert Towne

There must have been something inevitable about it because we got it done. I lived with (the book) for 20 years when I didn't write (the adaptation), and when I did write it, I lived with it for the next 10, 12 years.

Katrina Kelner

Something like this is probably inevitable for most journals.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Steven Spielberg

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Richard Stallman

Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

Michael Jackson

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Gijs de Vries

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Charles Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Susan B. Anthony

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Joel Kaplan

We think this is a very restrained budget.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Chad Smith

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Cher

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Derek Bailey

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Bill Laswell

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

Bill Viola

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Edwin Markham

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Akon

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chick Corea

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You deserve to take up space.

David Rockwell

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

David Hockney

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Charles Dickens

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....

Charles Dickens

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Ray Carter

You can't get any vehicles to come into the city, and we can't get any out.