Famous Quotes & Sayings

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Joseph Estrada

Let's leave it to the Senate, I will accept whatever is the verdict of the Senate,

Travis Hedrick

Lord I believe your promises. I receive your provision. I walk in you blessings. I live by your grace. I accept your mercy. I long for your embrace.

Sarah Ferguson

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

James Sensenbrenner

Senators, don't be fooled by the president's excuses and spin control, ... The facts and the evidence clearly show that he knew what he was doing was to deceive everyone, including the grand jury. He and his defenders are still in denial. They will not accept the consequence of his repeated and criminal attempts to defeat the judicial process.

Vivian Covard

She was never going to say she couldn't do something. She would never accept defeat.

Jan Egeland

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

Pierre Pettigrew

never accept such hatred, intolerance and anti-Semitism. Never.

Robin Cook

For years Libya has promised that it would accept a court without jury meeting in a third country. That way forward is now open to them,

Pat Harris

Knowing the circumstances, I was extremely proud of her for refusing to lie.

Emmanuel Munyukwi

The nomination committee to appoint commissioners has been put in place but that is not public information yet.

Toni Morrison

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Ricardo Montalban

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

John Henrik Clarke

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

John Calvin

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

John Calvin

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

John Calvin

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

John Berger

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Jimmy Wales

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Georg Simmel

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.