Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

Brendan Taman

Obviously, our plans are for him to be here beyond next year.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad because, as I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback. I hope it's not true, but beyond that I don't know much.

Patrick LeBlanc

No doubt, Lafayette Parish has road needs beyond our funding needs. Numerous other roads in Lafayette need help. But when you look at the volume of traffic coming up this two-lane road ... this makes a lot of sense.

Geno Auriemma

Right now, it seems like Will has made a commitment to herself to be one of the better players at her position in our league. And certainly it's not beyond the realm of possibilities for will. If you think about it, she's got all the ingredients.

Robert Blake

Next year we're looking for a Round Two of Fed tightening. We're looking at 6 percent and beyond for the first half of next year.

Shinzo Abe

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

Mary Adams

On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at the state level, revenues beyond the limit can be used to reduce existing taxes or as cash rebates.

Royce Lamberth

On numerous occasions over the last nine years, the Court has wanted to simply wash its hands of Interior and its iniquities once and for all, ... but doing so . . . would constitute an announcement that negligence and incompetence in government are beyond judicial remedy.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Mario Pescante

There will not be a change to the law, but we have found a solution to the law, a provision, something like that.

Jon Burnham

This is an incredible thing that's going on in these stocks and it's going to continue for a while until something happens to change it,

Ed Ableser

This is going to change my life a lot.

John Slenker

This is the big story - the change from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.

Sami Moubayed

This is part of a grand picture of change to conduct political reforms that are needed and that have been demanded by Arabs, foreigners and Syrians for the past five years.

Bryan McCarty

The weather won't change anything for us. It should be fun for the kids.

Simon McBurney

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

Ken Anderson

This data isn't so out of line that you would expect any change in what the Fed's going to do.

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

Dick Vitale

I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.

Mark Batterson

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

Mitt Romney

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Pope Francis

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Pope Francis

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Pope Francis

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

Peter Slipper

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

Philip Yancey

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Marcus Gronholm

I didn't expect to win. It's a new car, it's a fantastic result. I thought I could win before the last stage, not earlier. Everything is possible. We had our problems this morning. I was expecting Sebastien will be closer but I knew it would be a good fight here, I was sure about that. Petter had so many troubles in this rally, he couldn't show his speed. We have to wait for Mexico to see what he can do.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

Morris Gleitzman

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

Cory Magee

It stinks. I guess they wanted to make a move because of their record, but I went from one emotional high of our win to an emotional low in a pretty short period.

Reggie Sanders

It's not emotional anymore, ... It's not a head game anymore, because I've been able to come back for two or three weeks. Now, I'm in the groove where I need to be.

Don Flanagan

It's their Senior Night, and their players have been through a whole lot. We know it's going to be an emotional game for them. This is one of those times where our players have to be tough, match their intensity and prove they want it more.

Michael Lowe

There were people around the block. It was such an emotional event. To hear of the closing, I'm shocked.

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Jose Reyes

If you don't have the experience, you can learn.

David Gregory

I'm very grateful for the experience at NBC.

Robert Stack

I'm sure that we'll learn a lot from their experience, as we do from all the other disasters,

Charles Buchwalter

I'm not going to tell you that the online experience is matching the TV experience ... however, the online experience today is so much more like the TV experience than it was three or four years ago,

Melissa Etheridge

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

John Battelle

I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

Steve Kinser

I made a mistake but it turned out to be a good thing because it gave me more experience working the draft,

Steven Michael Quezada

I'm a big 'Breaking Bad' fan - if I'm not in the script, I like to experience the show with the rest of the world. I'm ready to be shocked.

Rece Davis

I love to come up and experience the countryside and the people, who were so nice to me the last time I was there,

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Simone Weil

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simon Anholt

The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

Thomas Merton

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Thomas Merton

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Thomas Merton

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Tony Campolo

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

Rumi

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Rumi

Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

Rumi

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.