Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Morton

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

Chris Kelly

Delta employees continue to rise to the challenge every time something is asked of them, ... Delta employees know how important their job is and how every passenger matters.

Jack Rogers

I've been asked for a list of things that these folks need, ... They need everything.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Bryn Terfel

I've asked Tom in the past, but I don't know what was wrong with him as Tommy boy didn't return any of my calls,

Kathy Kawaguchi

I've asked for an evaluation of all programs funded through the (federal Office of) Safe and Drug-Free Schools. I've also asked the staff to take a hard look at what are other options, especially those that have a strong scientific research base.

Robert Castellini

I wanted Lou to come up here in the worst way as a special advisor. He promised me, if I asked him to, he'd come down to Spring Training. He's just a terrific guy. He will not be with us this year.

Rodman Philbrick

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Norman Thomas

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Ben Katchor

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Thuy Trang

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Jay Haas

No. 4 really turned things around. I never expected to make four there.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Ayn Rand

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

Jamie Dimon

I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.

Miley Cyrus

Love me or hate me,I don't care.I'm doing what i like.I'm happy.

Cesar Chavez

Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

Cesar Chavez

I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

Alain de Botton

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

Aimee Mullins

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Augustus

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

Ayn Rand

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state ' and nothing else

Ayn Rand

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Quick money is lifesaving money. The system is stretched.

Judith Yaphe

That's how you pay out money to your supporters.

Marty Scarano

You're not offering money, you're offering a scenario.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.