Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

William Hamilton

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

Evel Knievel

I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.

William Hague

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

Sebastian Faulks

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

P. J. O'Rourke

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

Philip Hammond

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

Paul Wilkinson

It is fair to say that in the past London and Britain as a whole have been seen as a convenient place to operate international support networks.

Annika Sorenstam

Maybe somebody from Britain will go, ... They don't have to travel far.

Martin Rees

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Graeme Smith

The appointment of Jacques as vice captain is most welcome because he has so much talent and experience to impart to the other players. His knowledge of all facets of the game will help my captaincy considerably.

H. Hart

That was great. Pete's a captain and he's really stepping it up. I had complete faith in him in that situation.

Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

J. M. Roberts

We have talked a lot about leadership. We name our captains late. They are just feeling their role and Marc stepped up big time. He leads by example and is a big motivator. How he plays is how we go.

Parker Young

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

Thomas Gunderson

I think Jim Tobin is a great captain of the ship.

Greg Chappell

It is disappointing that what was a private discussion between the captain and myself has become a cause of public speculation. Even more disappointing is that much of what has been written does not represent the discussion fairly,

Paul Tidwell

Those captains are really helping the team take ownership of each unit. We've seen the effort level raised and they are accountable for their responsibilities. The captains will show a clip from practice and tell guys when they're letting down their unit. It's been great.

Jack Falahee

I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

Mike Kudla

That was a low point for us. We had to either go up or down from there. We responded to that. Where we are now, our starting point was really that game. We just grew from there and it was one of those deals where we got better each week.

Vasco Moreno

Me-too deals will occur or at least be proposed but hopefully the market will prevail and tell managers such deals won't be executed.

Don Gher

I think this is a ground-breaker for them. We'll see what the implications will be. ... There are probably more deals on the table.

Anthony Reyes

I was expecting to go three. It's one of those deals where it's your first day. Nothing is going down.

Doug Leggate

It doesn't take long in this price environment for these deals to pay for themselves.

Kirsten Borgstrom

We do know people are looking for those deals and discounts, looking to save dollars wherever they possibly can.

Grant Teichman

We really want to see what the difference is between the way a permanent president deals with the different constituencies opposed to an interim president.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the v

Hedda Hopper

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Matt Passmore

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Paul Simpson

Historically, there has always been a lot of people in Champaign-Urbana that have the wherewithal to travel and experience food and wine from all over the United States and all over the world. There is a worldly, eclectic view when it comes to food and wine in this community.

Billy Bob Thornton

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

Billy Bob Thornton

I've led a very eclectic life.

David Baldwin

Somehow, during reviews of us, the Smiths always come up and we can't quite place it. We grew up listening to the Smiths, but never thought we sounded like that. We have an eclectic mix of influences and hopefully that shows.

Michael Dunne

Jerry Garcia has an eclectic style, ... It's pretty abstract. Bright. Colorful.

John Sinclair

My house was traditional, very boxy and lacking architectural interest. I wanted it to be eclectic European,

Christina Milian

People that you wouldn't even imagine that I would hang out with. It was weird, but I like hanging out with different, eclectic people.

Matt Barnes

That's what we like about it. It's an eclectic lineup any night of the week.

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Carl Maria von Weber

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Bertrand Russell

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe.

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Richard Brodhead

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Benjamin Rush

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Bill Vaughan

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Bryson

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

Bill Burr

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

Marty Meehan

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Yolanda Adams

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

Jane Seymour

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Chris Carter

I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

Paul Wolfowitz

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Phoebe Snow

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.

Michael Stoller

Michael told me once that the reason he's so involved with his own kids is because he'll never have to be lonely.

Peter Coleman

I'm shocked and I'm disappointed, but I don't know the whole story yet. Or how I can get involved with the rest of the people here to save it.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Carmen Proviano

We know other people were involved. We want to know who else was involved in our son's murder. We can't have peace until we know everything.

Anthony Zuiker

I think Clive Owen could do CSI London in a heartbeat,

Stephen Dorff

I'd like to make a movie in the South of France. I'd like to make a movie in London again. And, I'm going to make a movie in Amsterdam.

David Mitchell

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

Carole King

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

China Mieville

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Charlotte Church

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Dayron Robles

The objective is to do things well in London.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bill Bryson

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Emma Roberts

I think it's important to not always wear pants and not always wear dresses. You should and mix that up.

Emanuel Ungaro

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

Bill Unzicker

We have a nice mix on our team with our seniors and younger players.

Marcus Samuelsson

Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Jim Johnson

We'll put him in the mix and see how he plays.

Bill Belichick

We'll put him (Davis) into the mix and see what he can do.

Ed DeChellis

We've got some things we haven't done in games. We haven't really played much zone. I think in the Big Ten we're going to have to mix our defenses up and try to keep people off balance. I don't think we're a team that can go out and play man-to-man for 40 minutes.

Danny Hale

We've done a lot of mixing and matching. We haven't had that 11 together that we're going to go with.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

Steve Forbes

You can't do it with an occasional speech, you've got to do it every day.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Max Lucado

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Bruce Bochy

That was very similar to how he threw for the Dodgers.

John Davis

We wanted to keep our monthly payments similar to what they are now, and we can do that by splitting it three ways.

Richard Jefferies

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Oliver Luck

My sense is that we're going to have a similar crowd.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Jordan Foreman

He has a big body, he's strong, so it's somewhat similar to what he (Davis) does. He's been a big help.

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Robert Rodriguez

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

Thomas Doll

We've been in similar situations often this season.

Sara Teasdale

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

C. S. Lewis

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

Cathy Moriarty

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Cecil Rhodes

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Catie Curtis

Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Carrie Fisher

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Carrie Fisher

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

Carrie Underwood

Wake up feeling like my life's worth living. Can't recall when I last felt that way. Guess it must be all this love you're giving. Never knew never knew it could be like this, but I guess some hearts they just get all the right breaks. Some hearts have the stars on their side. Some hearts they just have it so easy. Some hearts just get lucky sometimes.