Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Dan Garton

We appreciate and admire the courageous efforts of U.S. military personnel around the world to keep our country safe and strong. And we recognize the great sacrifice that their family members also make. As a result, American Airlines is pleased to extend these special offers to military members and their loved ones.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

James Galway

Until this time in my life Julius Baker was one of the most admired names in the flute world.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Mark Hyman

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Harry Belafonte

We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.

Richard Davis

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Scott Phelps

We always are in conversations with Southwest Airlines to expand their operations at Sky Harbor. With Southwest having the largest single operation at Sky Harbor, we talk with them constantly.

David Novak

We've also cut five other witnesses ... that were going to testify from the various airlines so that there would be no issue about taint based upon Ms. Martin's contact with their attorneys.

Mark McClain

There is no point in saving Northwest Airlines if a significant number of our members lose their jobs.

Chris McGinnis

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

Floyd Hall

What a lovely honor it is to have Spirit Airlines dedicate a new plane to our islands. We are most appreciative and wish Spirit Airlines wonderful success.

Glenn Argenbright

The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.

Philip Baggaley

United shutting down doesn't necessarily fix the problem for other airlines, but it helps a lot. It does divert a fair amount of revenue to other airlines -- United carries about 17 percent of the nation's traffic.

Glenn Tilton

United Airlines will continue to provide customers with the same experience and level of service they have come to expect, ... We stand by our commitment to provide customers with convenient schedules, quality onboard services and the most extensive route network in the U.S. and abroad.

Dean Headley

At a time when airlines got worse, they all kind of got worse at the same rate.

Geoff Salmon

We want them to get caught up in it. It's something they'll never be able to do again, for the seniors. We'll get after them in practice and go hard like we have all year, but we also want them to appreciate what they're doing.

Chris Colfer

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Audrey Hepburn

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Arthur Rock

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Russ Johnson

We appreciate the concern they have and them coming by, and I know C.R. would appreciate it, too. But now is just a real critical time. His brain has a lot of healing to do.

Brian Hutchinson

We appreciate the commitment of Kyle and his staff to Morehead State and the Eagle basketball program. There is no question that many facets of our program improved under his direction. We will immediately begin the process of a national search to fill this void in our athletics program.

Linda Newman

We appreciate the break, it gives us a little more leeway.

Tubby Smith

We appreciate the Big Blue faithful. The faith they have in us is remarkable.

Brian Sullivan

We appreciate that this has put some stress on waiting lists, It really comes down to the fact that these people have lost everything. You can't get around that.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Jack Straw

As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced,

Mike Sutton

The most courageous person in all of this is my wife, Karen. She has not had a day off or any time to herself since this happened.

Steven Spielberg

This is a courageous year for filmmakers. ... They are saying 'If I never make another film, this one says what I think and feel.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.

Garrick Phillips

Pretty darn courageous effort. We made the plays late we needed to win the game. These are kids I want to be with every day This is a special group of kids and win or lose they are going to have a special place in my heart forever.

Jesse Jackson

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

Lawrence Dallaglio

They are a courageous side and they never stopped trying.

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Mike Browning

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Stuart Cohen

All our efforts indicated we were making good progress.

Heather Murren

We are pleased to extend our service to the communities of Nevada.

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Scott Atkinson

We're still refocusing on this area, the neighborhood, family, extended family, friends, people who would have a reason to be in the house, to be in this neighborhood -- the same thing we were doing yesterday,

Cathy Mann

We extend our sincere condolences to the families of our subcontract personnel.

Nan Gerson

We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family.

King Gyanendra

We extend our heartfelt condolences to all those who have lost their lives in the people's movement.

John Cox

We extended these plea offers, and we're very comfortable with what we offered and what was accepted.

Jack Foster

We extended out lead in the league, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Spurgeon

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Al Roker

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Chris Metzger

We want the kids to take pride in the Lely brand. We preach family and Thursday night we were all together and we didn't have to worry about where they were.

Chris Cagle

She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.

Edmond Rostand

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Gretchen Rubin

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

Drew Brees

They have a lot of pressure on them right now. I just wanted them to know their quarterback still loved them.

Jack Johnson

They were just people who loved being out in nature all the time,

Gordon England

This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost, and everyone who suffered so much that day.

Richard Mann

For many survivors the memorial is their only real place to go to mourn. It is a place where they can mourn for their relatives as we could mourn for our loved ones.

Laura Seeger

There were three squads so everyone who tried out made it. I loved it.

Miguel Unamuno

It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love

Bill Rodgers

It's a different thing whether to keep going to races, but I've always loved racing.

John Ramer

I truly loved my job, and it was a major, major part of my life.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Yuvraj Singh

They have become responsible and seasoned. They are senior members of the team in every way.

Mark Blondin

They had their way with our members in 2002.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Tim Norris

They still very much see themselves as members of the Andover Outing Club.

Richard Grasso

This is a violation of the trust that all members have in each other here,

Rep. Baudler

They're predators, and they're predators on our most vulnerable members of society.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Akhmad Kadyrov

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Chris Christie

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Chris Christie

We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chief Seattle

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Edward Gibbon

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.

Edward Gibbon

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.

Edward Gibbon

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Charley Casserly

We're going to get offers for this pick. We've already had discussions with teams. I think there's value in our pick.

Chris Kofinis

You can?t just be the one who criticizes; you have to be the one who offers a new road.

Jason Lewis

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

Curtis Arnold

You may think this is the solution to all your woes, but this may not be a wise thing to do, because many, many offers are fraught with upfront fees.

Laura Puchowicz

We already have offers on some of the units.

Makhosini Nkosi

As the NPA we are very pleased with this as it offers us what we wanted all the time - which is enough time to prepare for this case,

Ariel Sharon

This offers an opportunity to the Palestinians, and it's their turn,

David Church

The quality of people prepared to come here and enthuse about the opportunities the place offers is fantastic.

Michel de Montaigne

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Pat Coyle

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

Chauncey Billups

We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Barney Bishop

We are pleased with the turnout. We have some legislators, but we'd like to have some more.

Stuart Rose

We are pleased with the progress we are making but there remains much to do.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case.

Don Horner

We are pleased with the bank's first-quarter performance.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organization.

Mitch Kupchak

We are pleased to welcome Kareem back to the organisation.

Liz Boyd

We are pleased to see (Lansing) step up.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to report another strong quarter for SAP,

Kerry Stokes

We are pleased to be back in football.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Sergei Lavrov

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

John Novak

(Auto makers) recognize how many of the Top 50 suppliers are in bankruptcy.

Randal Pinkett

At some level, I am a celebrity. I'm recognized all the time.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

Charles Caleb Colton

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Charles Stanley

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Al Ries

To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

Al Sharpton

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Al Jardine

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Coleman

We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season)

Chris Alexander

We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Bill Watterson

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

Bill Watterson

We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'