Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Brady

We cannot produce or sell goods, agricultural products or raw materials if we cannot move them throughout our great land, or ship them overseas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cannot possess what we do not understand

Matthieu Vaslin

We cannot play with fire. We have warned from the start that the ibis should not be here. Now it is nearly too late.

J. Taylor

We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day 'Labor of Love' challenge in an effort to do what we can to help.

David Pagan

We cannot overlook West, South and Peninsula. We're the type of team that if we don't come out and play hard every game, we can be knocked off. We can't look forward until that last game.

Jim Day

We cannot move very fast on this because even if they're approved, they cost money and they're not budgeted,

Sam Pitroda

We cannot move forward without this and the question is how fast could we do these reforms. By next month we would like to submit a report recommending university reforms.

Anthony Foxx

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

Dave Druker

We cannot manipulate or make changes to the records unless we are contacted by the Census Bureau.

Sarah Hall

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Kim Nelson

We were able to string a few hits together and we were able to keep pressure on them. It was good to get started in that first inning and keep hitting.

Jamie Bamber

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

Jon Sellers

We have a few kinks we need to work out but they're looking good. But we'll be ready for Big Sky on Friday.

Joe Morgan

We have a few holes to fill, but with a little time together, we'll be fine.

Aaron Nida

We have a few freshman out that I think are going to be okay. It's going to take a little time for them to develop.

Mark McCall

We have a few free weekends after that, so it may be advisable to let him rest,

Richard Cross

We have a few drinks, we get up and dance, we have a good time.

Willie Goolsby

We've made it to the first round the past few years. We feel good (making it) past that point.

Clint Eastwood

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

Alice Walker

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...

Alice Meynell

The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

Alice Hoffman

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

Alice Hoffman

Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.

Alice Childress

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Anne Hutchinson

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

Anne Michaels

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

Anne Heche

I've always kind of gone with my heart.

Demi Lovato

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Marsha Sharp

We got a little fatigued on the boards, and they started hurting us right there.

Chuck Barris

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

Angie Harmon

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

Angelina Jolie

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

Angelina Jolie

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

Angelina Jolie

I'm trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don't have better solutions for conflict — for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can't we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

Angelina Jolie

I bought original, real guns of the type we used in 'Tomb Raider' for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to ... If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.

Angelina Jolie

If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them,

Anne Rice

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Czeslaw Milosz

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Conor Oberst

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

Conor Oberst

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

Conor Oberst

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Conor Oberst

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

Conor Oberst

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

Conor Oberst

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

Conor Oberst

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Keith Cooper

I'm disappointed we didn't come out and be the aggressors. By the time we woke up and got after them, it was too late.

Sasha Alexander

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Neale Donald Walsch

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.