Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Joseph Addison

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Luther Vandross

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

Monica Crowley

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert G. Allen

It's priced much too low, ... That's disappointing to you, and it's totally unacceptable to us. The leadership of AT&T has no greater priority than to increase shareholder value.

Jim Folkman

It's performance-based. It's systemic. Not just an item here or there. It comes together as a system and operates better. The end is greater than the sum of the parts.

Francois Heisbourg

It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.

Alan Dawson

It's lovely to go and play away as underdogs. I love nothing more than upsetting people's predictions. They are on a roll, but in the past we have coped with greater pressure than this.

Kyle Herring

It's a problem that has been around for years. It's probably of greater interest now because we're getting ready to fly.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Alyn McCauley

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.

Norm Boyles

We made the plays when we needed to, and Tiffany buckled down when she needed to.

Lee Evans

I didn't win the game. That's the object when you go out there. That's really all there is to say. I didn't win, and I didn't step up when I needed to.

Tomi Pettinen

I didn't want to push myself too hard. I didn't want to pull a groin. I've done nothing for 10 days. I think I did just what was necessary, what I needed to do. On the ice, keep it simple.

Matt Silverman

He will not have any role in the operations of the business. He will be a resource as needed for the organization and he will be a big supporter and cheerleader for the organization.

Alex Sanchez

He was tough. There wasn't very much I could work on. After the first takedown, I realized I needed to pick it up or I wasn't going to make it.

Mike Gillespie

He (Tate) made plays. He got two big baskets for us when we needed it the most.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

Larry Burkett

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

John Keats

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Katharine Anthony

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

Charles Blake

It strengthens me to be rooted in the word of God.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Terence McKenna

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Saxby Chambliss

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

William Howard Taft

Politics make me sick

Willa Cather

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Warren Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Warren Buffett

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.