Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Franco Debono

The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Kevin Hall

We have Virginians who, through their elected representatives and their judges and juries, support this as a matter of public policy in Virginia.

Phil Roe

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Eric Thode

Whoever were to get elected in this rushed, expensive, 20- to 30-candidate special election, they're going to serve no time to speak of, and they're going to do nothing.

Nick Ryan

Jim Nussle is doing the job he was elected to do by getting results on Iowa priorities.

Gabriel Claudio

The President has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Yolanda Adams

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

Todd Rundgren

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

C. S. Lewis

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Hugh Johnson

Merck reminds us that this is about earnings.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Bill Vaughan

No one can bring to God what you can.

Roland Williams

That was a very unique way to win it, but I'll take it,

Fred Shafer

We're unique to this area, that's how we survive.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Jacob Bronowski

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

Brick Storts

I find it uniquely interesting it started today.

Dianne Wiest

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.