Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

Edward Gibbon

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Kareem Evans

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

H. Hart

When you've used your arms all your life to paint and to express yourself, and now he's struggling to even open his fingers, it's heartbreaking. I think he's come to grips with it, but it's really hard for us to understand that.

William Shakespeare

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

Liam Fox

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

Michael Gove

My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.

Gary Miner

We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.

Adam Sieminski

We believe that the oil ministers are inclined to defend a $55 per barrel floor in the near term.

Raza Jaffrey

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

Steve Renfroe

We were back to normal production six weeks after the hurricane. During that six weeks we distributed a million barrels of on-hand gas and imported another two million barrels for local and regional use.

Michael Ferguson

We're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and that gun is ready to fire,

Ben Brockwell

We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.

Frank Murkowski

When we had $10 a barrel a year ago, it was the market that was making the determination, ... To blame 'big oil' on profiteering is a little misleading ... the market is setting the price, not U.S. 'big oil.'

Bruce Evers

World producers need to bring another 1 1/2 million barrels per day on line every year to meet rising demand. So even a minor supply disruption is going to have a disproportionate impact on oil prices.

John Kilduff

We're forecasting oil will grind higher up to $33, ... with an ultimate spike up to $40 a barrel on the outbreak of hostilities.

Fadel Gheit

With the right investment environment and under the right government, Iraq could increase production by a million barrels a day every year for the next 10 years, ... It could be the largest oil exporter in the world, eclipsing Saudi Arabia.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Arne Glimcher

Everything happens through relationships.

Matt Mullenweg

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Rick Smith

You don't look for these things to happen in Park Hills, but in today's world, it's here,

John Cohen

Tomorrow, we'll get a big hug going, and we'll talk about past times, and then the first pitch will be thrown, and he won't see John Cohen, he'll see the enemy. I won't see Pat McMahon, I'll see a team that we're trying to beat. That happens a lot in this league.

Travis Wight

We remembered. That's why we made sure it wouldn't happen to us.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Red Cavaney

What happens when we don't have a year like this one?

Jim Mills

What happens to those people with severe memory lapses? How many of those people have they contacted, how many times have they been invited into their houses. How people who have nobody to call, so we don't know how many people this has affected.

The Vikings

What happens on Lake Minnetonka stays on Lake Minnetonka.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

Johnny Richardson

At first I thought it was kids playing around, but then I realized he was hitting his grandmother with a pipe.

Holly Misto

They played man-to-man and we did a better job of hitting the outlet and pushing the ball.

David Boydstun

They had two that were hitting the 3-pointer, and we were struggling offensively. We just couldn't get into a rhythm. We went back to the press, running off steals and rebounds. It looked like we took their legs away in the second half.

Holly Misto

They were hitting some long shots there at the end.

Conchita Johnson

They were hitting on all cylinders. Turnovers really hurt us, especially in the first half, and they were able to turn a lot of those mistakes into points.

Cliff Thompson

For a stretch, Nephi started hitting everything he threw up there.

Ryan Martin

I tried to use the screens and use my speed to get open or get into gaps. Once Will started hitting I just had to keep getting him the ball.

Barry Bonds

It's all right. I'll turn it around. I ain't hitting anything.

Bernard Williams

We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. The Hirst and the McCartney are star lots.

Cheryl Brown

We've already started looking at what we could do different and better for next year's show.

Monique Currie

We are looking to get into the No. 1 spot because that would mean we won the game.

Craig Barrett

We are looking to be the preeminent building-block supplier to the World Wide Web economy,

Bill Ryan

We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.

Mike Williams

We are looking into this matter, we have made no decision.

Mary Osako

We are looking into the report. We would not know the nature of an investigation.

Doug Gay

We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.

Dave Rose

We are looking into installing them because of a rise in vandalism and graffiti at the schools during off hours.