Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

James Galway

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Caroline Kennedy

U.S. Rep. John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most. When others were unwilling to do so, each man recognized a moral obligation to speak out against policies he believed were misguided and contrary to our national interest.

Roger Ebert

As someone who admired the freshness and energy of the earlier films, I was amazed, at the end of 'Episode II,' to realize that I had not heard one line of quotable, memorable dialogue.

Bruce Bochy

This guy is an impact player. I think this was a big signing for us. I've always admired how Mike plays the game. He plays the game hard and he plays it right.

Chris Swecker

It's tough to leave public service. I've been doing it for so long. I've admired Bank of America for a long time. It's the only chief security position I would take.

John Faraci

It's an honor to be named the most admired company in the industry for the fourth straight year, and we're particularly proud to have ranked second overall in social responsibility. This is recognition of the talented employees of International Paper and their focus on serving our customers, strengthening our operations, and being responsible citizens in the communities where we live and work around the globe.

Bobby Rahal

I told them (the other drivers) I admired them and appreciated them because they're out racing these cars for people to see, ... These (cars) aren't hangar queens. They (the racers) are very selfless about sharing their love for these cars with everybody here. You could tell from the reception, with cars in the paddock area, that a lot of these fans here are excited to see these cars again.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Doug Herzog

We always hold out hope against hope. We would very much relish the opportunity to be back in real business with Dave.

Felipe Roque

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

Stephen Decatur

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway,

Rich Dalrymple

We also wanted to have it during a big game against a tradition rival like the Redskins.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Jimbo Davis

We always believed we could come back, and once we got to their bullpen, we knew we were gonna score a lot of runs. It was just a matter of whether we'd run out of innings.

Jo Nata

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Martin Jacques

If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.

Ted Leonsis

When you're young and you buy entertainment-oriented businesses, you do it so you can package them in a way that enhances their value. I've always believed that to build the Internet you build a community of interests. Then you supply content to strengthen the sense of community - and a hockey team is content.

Brandy Norwood

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Tim Finchem

We've always believed we're prepared to do it, ... We can handle it in short order if we need to.

Adam Rothberg

We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

Kyle Hines

When we weren't winning, we were still working hard. It just didn't seem like we had all the pieces of the puzzle. We all believed sometime we'd click, and I'm happy it's now.

Frank Spinner

What he was doing he was doing in the open, and he was doing it because he believed the information in fact would save lives.

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Ajai Sahni

This is utter nonsense, entirely unrealistic and contrary to the lessons of recent history.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Jean Lacordaire

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Michael McKeon

Any suggestion to the contrary ... is outrageous and wrong.

Marie Okabe

The secretary-general also welcomes the prime minister's statement that such practices are completely contrary to Iraqi government policy.

Peter Fader

Putting the stuff where people are more likely to go is the big payoff. It runs contrary to what marketing managers do for a living but it is good for their shareholders.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Charles Stanley

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

David Hume

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

Benazir Bhutto

The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated...Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Antony Sher

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Simon Deng

The people who will walk to Washington, D.C., are here to tell the world about courage, a word the United Nations has been unable to pronounce.

Charles Dickens

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

Charles Stanley

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

Charles Spurgeon

A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

Alan Bradley

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Alain Resnais

We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Al Pacino

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Donna Harper

It seems kind of selfish now, when I think about why I started this event. Ten years ago my son, Jacob, was a sophomore here. He had written a paper about John Steinbeck. He wanted to present this paper at one of the conferences I went to, but I told him they didn't let students do that.

Joe Gottfried

They met with John (Wednesday), but other than that, there's no changes. He didn't say a whole lot about (the interview). We talked some about it, but it's just he and I talking (about it).

John Chamberlain

This is a film of John Chamberlain and his friends on acid,

David Garrow

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Bill Russell

They have the right to protest, but are misguided in the views.

John Gage

provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.

Christine Teigen

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Charles Hodge

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Edward Kennedy

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

Barbara Tuchman

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Bob Hawke

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Doc Rivers

I told them we played with them and that's great. But at the end of the day, we didn't win the game. And I told them the moral victory stuff, that's for teams who think they are losers.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

S. J. Perelman

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

H. Rap Brown

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Isaac Mizrahi

I have a lot of obligations.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

Connie Higgins

All others will receive non-partisan ballots, so they don't get to vote on partisan offices.

Luis Gutierrez

They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,

Sathya Baba

The Yoga science is today being probed by physicists and others in Western countries.

Fernando Rospigliosi

They don't want a trial. That could implicate Fujimori and others in the government.

Michael Riley

It?s tough to go to school when you know others have off.

Ron DeHaven

It's one of those situations where we need to treat others as we would want them to treat us, and we have done that.

Tom Daschle

All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Richard Doherty

We are still working out the policies for that.

Craig Hill

We did all we could. Policies and procedures were followed. Everything went very well and effectively.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Randal Pinkett

At some level, I am a celebrity. I'm recognized all the time.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Robin Weigert

I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.

Barbara Bishop

We are thrilled to be recognized by the county.

Warner Johnston

Our city's playgrounds are nationally recognized for safety.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Bear Grylls

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Aaron Swartz

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.