Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Charles Singley

I got drunk that night in Honolulu, and we had some celebration. I went to the nearest joint I could find. Soldiers and sailors paid for nothing. Civilians paid for everything, picked up all our tabs. They loved us. The town was ours.

Bryan Whitman

We don't target any civilians with any of our weapons. And to suggest that U.S. forces were targeting civilians with these weapons would simply be wrong.

Shyam Saran

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

Dan Curtis

He called to thank me for teaching him what I taught him in order to be able to do what he did at the restaurant. It was just incredible. And as an instructor you can't get a better compliment than that, when somebody in the civilian world takes what they learn in a four-hour C.P.R. class and actually uses it to save someone's life.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Tim Wulfemeyer

The name recognition of the people involved has long been a factor in deciding what's news. I tell my class, 'If all of us go to a party on a Saturday night, and Tony Gwynn, the president of San Diego State and President Bush's daughters are there, and we all get stopped by the police, who's going to get the news coverage?' It's going to be the people who are well-known.

Paul Lawrie

Colin has always been a world class player and I can't say I'm surprised by what he's done. Obviously, Colin has dug in and got it going again, which is great. But the Order of Merit race isn't over yet by any means - there's still a long way to go.

Bob Shank

(The senior class) knows what it is all about; they have been there and done that for several years now. We had to find a lot of replacements for people last year; that's just the way it goes. I think we'd all like to see the senior class go out on top.

Michael Seymour

The students contributed a great deal of time and effort to the plan. This was more than just a class project to them. They clearly wanted to give something back to the Coast communities.

Matt Durgin

The staff, the team, everything here on Martha's Vineyard was first-class. Overall it was a great experience for my kids.

Peter McPherson

I've always encouraged students to go to developing countries or middle-class countries because it gives students a flavor they don't get in Europe.

Lee Yew

I want a world-class opposition, not a riff-raff.

Ryan Gomes

Some days I wake up and have to go to class and think, If I had left, I wouldn't have to worry about this stuff.

Chipper Jones

Probably not, but it's a tremendous compliment to him and his abilities that he's even considered.

Dan Onorato

The team will spend considerable time evaluating existing transportation plans and looking for ways they might connect to or compliment the transportation plan I unveiled last year.

Stephen Allen

This is really a nice compliment to our previous ranking with Consumers Digest, where that ranking relied heavily on an outside source looking at us. This ranking uses a lot of input from current students who are living the SUU educational experience.

Brady Bomber

You walk around town and guys compliment you on the games. Last year, it wasn't like this.

Tony Lewis

What we need to do is compliment (Brian) and get Deandre back.

Bob Dylan

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

John Lelangue

Floyd has informed me that in spite of various offers from other teams he would like to stay with us. Naturally, that's a great compliment for us and motivation at the same time.

Bob Reid

Brittany comes to games mentally prepared to win the game. That's the highest compliment I can give her. She's more focused on winning the game ? every shift, every game ? and our team can feed off that.

John Gill

We were excellent last week, we really were, but we were also very, very unlucky. Their goalkeeper got man of the match and I look on that as a compliment to my team.

Will Kemp

As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

Goran Persson

A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.

Rachel Lawson

The thing about our sport is you have to turn around and it's a new game. You can't live in the past, you have to learn from your mistakes and keep moving.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.

Scott Eyre

I've become a better pitcher because I've learned to economize.

Russ Ortiz

After I sat down and thought about it, I learned a lot about the game, about myself.

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Ozzie Guillen

Now I learned a lesson. I never thought I was going to do that, and it's ugly because I know a lot of people have taken the first shot at me, and I come back real strong.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Aziz Ansari

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Jane Jacobs

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

John Harris

I started to think about everything we wanted to save out of the house.

Sidney Crosby

Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again.

Sean Burke

If I can make that save it's still 1-0. Right now we're not making the big plays.

Brett Gallagher

I can't stand the dollar. There's nothing that's going to save it and it's going to get worse .

Wade Redden

He was there to save us. We've got to be better for him (tonight).

Richard Lee

If you save one soul, your work has been done.

Mike White

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

Kurt Russell

All I wanted for him was to save the world,

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Danny Hall

You spot somebody 10 runs, it's pretty tough to win.

Manti Te'o

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

Bob Bernstein

We wanted to put up enough to get somebody talking. What's a bun worth? It's kind of a strange question.

Mark McKinney

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Brad Clark

You have to be able to take somebody down to win these days. You have to be tough on your feet.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Craig Colten

The whole thing takes a long, long time.

Phil Klay

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

Jane Smith

You have to know where to look, it just takes a little practice.

Paul Tagliabue

But it really doesn't matter. If it takes 2 1/2 (months), fine. If it takes 5 1/2 (months), that's fine, too.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Angelina Jolie

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Alvin Dark

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom can be learned . But it cannot be taught .

Anna Louise Strong

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

D. A. Carson

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

David Foster

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Charles Darwin

...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

Janet Yellen

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

Jane Smiley

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

Diane Cilento

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Fidel Castro

Thank you Fidel Castro, thank you for existing.

Gilles Duceppe

Thank you, everyone. That touches me right in the heart.

Peter Kelley

Thank you ... celebrations are really important to this town.

Tim Wall

Thank you all very much. We couldn't do it without you.

Jacques Rogge

These were truly magnificent games. We say a heart-felt thank you to Italy, Piedmont and Italy.

Jose Guillen

You've got to say thank you to the bullpen.

Augusto Pinochet

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.