Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B.C.

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Bill Gates

We hope to find a way to resolve this and put it behind us, ... From the very beginning, we've said we would like nothing better than to settle this case.

Charli Thorne

We set out at the beginning of the season to take the next step this year. So I know that in their minds that's their goal, to go at least one step further than we went last year. I think that would be outstanding for us to be able to do.

Thomas Hesse

Everything priced the same was a great thing to do in the beginning of the market. Now it's a good time to move into a tiered market. This whole landscape is evolving. We will be more seeing more of a price differentiation between more desirable stuff and less desirable stuff.

Albert Murray

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

Abraham Scott

Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.

Mark Oliphant

I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.

Robby Krieger

Jim died in 1971, and the problem of trying to replace him was insurmountable at that time. But after 30 years or so goes by, it doesn't seem so insurmountable.

Tom Foley

Lloyd was a great friend, and he died too soon.

Susan Anderson

He always said that he wanted to go back. He said make sure when he died he would be placed on the Arizona.

David Healy

It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Eve Plumb

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.

Terry Crews

I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Conor McGregor

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream... I'm enjoying my life.

Claire Messud

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained,

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Jean Sibelius

For me, music begins where words end.

Jean de La Fontaine

We ought to consider the end in everything.

Jean de La Fontaine

In everything one must consider the end.

Jil Sander

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

Groucho Marx

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.

Gertrude Stein

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Cloris Leachman

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Cory Monteith

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

Cory Booker

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

e. e. cummings

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Steve Clark

To be honest, I never even thought of it or heard of it.

Kyle Lowry

You heard about it all the time. It was always sold out in here so I couldn't get tickets.

Jan Egeland

We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Wilma Bennett

She had a big jolly laugh. If you were in a room with a lot of people and you heard her laugh it made you feel better. It was that kind of laugh.

James Carbone

Mr. Bradford was the leader of a ring. If you heard the word 'Detroit connection,' Mr. Bradford was the leader.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Pam Murphy

We literally taste every homemade product on our line every day. It takes two hours.

Agnetha Faltskog

I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

Brittany Bowe

There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Brian Selznick

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Al Gore

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Bob Dylan

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...

Brit Marling

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Robert Kiyosaki

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

Robert Kiyosaki

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Damon Dash

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Wayne Dyer

When you're inspired you attract abundance.

Elaine Stritch

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Jason Arnott

We just stayed positive with it. We knew (a comeback) was coming.

Nick Fruendt

We just had to relax and play our game. We knew we could come back and take this thing. I think we just stepped it up to another level in the second half.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Lisa Nelson

I don't see it as being a panacea. I see it as another layer of protection, and therein is the strength of it.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life seems endless, life seems to go on and on until you lay on your death-bed!

Rick DiPietro

If you have any pride or love for this team, you can't go out and lay eggs. This is a big time of year, regardless of the situation. We've got to come out and play hard.

James Rosenquist

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

David Duval

I want to sit down or lay down and try to let it rest.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

A. R. Ammons

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

George Herbert

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Tamsin Greig

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

Rod Stewart

I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.

Francis Bacon

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Debbie Ford

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

Alphonsus Liguori

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

Anthony Marra

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Anthony Marra

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Anne Frank

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph)

Anne Frank

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Robert Fulghum

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.