Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Cole

God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

Sheldon Souray

I think believing is the first thing because momentum is a funny thing some times. You get momentum and luck and things start happening and you just get that feeling.

James Randi

I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities, ... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video.

Jana Kramer

I have to thank country radio for believing in me.

Jay Anderson

I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.

John Lemme

The mindset to make money equals instant failure. Believing that you have the right to earn income so that you can bless others will provide financial freedom for yourself and your family.

Kevin Downey

The Fairfield game was the level we knew we could play at. But maintaining that level has been the problem for us. We're happy with this win, but we can't be satisfied. We have to continue believing in ourselves and trusting each other.

Dave Lane

The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago. I heard it more than once that someone was distributing photos of Paul in Iraq with Iraqi war casualties with captions or suggestions that Paul had committed some sort of atrocities. Who did it? I have no idea. It sounds like a Republican M.O. to me, but I have no proof of that. But if it was someone on my side of the fence, I have a real problem with that. I have a hard time believing that a Democrat would do that to another Democrat.

Evan Osnos

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

Susan Sontag

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize,

Doug Brooks

If you sit still for a few minutes, the insurgents will have time to figure out where you are, that you are a Westerner, and take you out. A lot of the casualties are from situations like that.

Andrew Krepinevich

The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.

John Buford

The enemy was too strong for me, but he was severely punished for his obstinacy. His casualties were more than quadruple mine.

Kerry Emanuel

The damage and casualties produced by more intense storms could increase considerably in the future.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Madeline Albright

They were casualties of a new kind of confrontation that looms as the new century begins,

Ra'anan Gissin

It is totally unacceptable and intolerable that when they have elections in the Palestinian Authority, we will have to pay the price in casualties because of the competition between various groups.

Raziq Bugti

The number of casualties and the damage suggest that there could have been more than one landmine but we have not confirmed that at this stage.

Kevin White

They are taking on volunteers who can stand the rigors, ... Some of the volunteers are sleeping on the floor. They don't want people to go down there and become casualties themselves. The people who aren't able to withstand those difficulties are probably better suited to stay here and help out.

H. Hunt

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the public will at the same time have the parallel, but separate opportunity to vote to complete the original project design with the rolling roof.

Andy Geiger

He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete.

David Whitton

He just wanted to do his best. He was committed whole-heartedly to the job. It was typical of him.

Colleen Kelley

What we do support is anything that would fall into the town's master plan. The mayor has said he is committed to rebuilding the town's villages. We will support plans that are in keeping with that.

Bible Bible

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

Lynn Swann

I think the people of Pennsylvania would rather have a governor who is committed to being there.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev

Kyrgyzstan is committed to good and even relations (with) all the states it has cooperated with,

Avi Arad

There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

David Green

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.

Marshall Wittmann

He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Bob Graham

It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.

M. Thompson

Half the time, we don't even notice that they're there.

Leon Cooperman

Half the stocks I picked are up and half of them are down.

Jeffrey Levi

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Charlie Otero

Knowing the last moments, the last thoughts, the last words was pretty hard to take,

Author unknown

Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Joe Jones

Joe has really been positive throughout this whole thing. He's worked hard to get back to being the player that he once was. We're hoping he's going to be able to do that.

Jerry Snyder

I talked to the coach; he said that'd be great. He's actually one of the reasons I'm pushing so hard is because he was so enthusiastic about it. I think if I do get to play I'm going to love that coach.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Randy Harrison

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Robin Hayes

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Hans Blix

The Iraqis have been putting themselves in a position to rejuvenate their weapons-of-mass-destruction programs.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

Salam Pax

All Iraqis know very well that there was no way of getting rid of Saddam without outside intervention.

Nehal Bhuta

This is totally new for the Iraqi legal system and these are not just any old trials.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Ahmad Chalabi

a very positive and constructive role in the formation of the Iraqi government.

John W. Snow

I would think that next month we would see better numbers,

Susanna Moore

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Penny Brown

Here we are, months later, and we're still talking about the same thing,

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Eddie Jordan

We've been waiting for two months for this quarter.

Jim Heath

We tour or play irrespective of any release. We do a lot of a month on, a month off.

Phil Dow

We've got to get through that and it's probably several months before we get a turnaround in any sectors,

Denise Monteiro

We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way.

Jim Johnson

Paul didn't play that much (Sunday), but we'll get him ready and he's going to have to play more this week.

Eugene Levy

And I'm doing a pilot for TV Land, called 'I Did Not Know That.' It's co-produced by Paul Reiser.

David Tennant

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

Bob Stoops

We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.

Paula Cole

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Barbara Harris

The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.

Thom Gunn

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Jeff Howard

Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.

Chris Squire

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Mark Edwards

That's a little weird to me. Why would you be taking photos if nothing happened? Were they being taken to set up a defense?

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Craig Fraser

Those photos would make you turn white to look at them,

Megan Smith

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Becky G

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

Jeff Berg

I think in time, once the production catches up with demand, that this won't be a problem anymore,

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Ron Dennis

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

John Carter

It could be a problem at that point.

Johnathan Frakes

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Patrick Ness

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

Peter Greenaway

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Karen Osborne

This is identification at the polls, not proof of citizenship.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

Lewis Black

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Barbara Walker

It had been a rumor for a while,

Venus Williams

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Milarepa

Osho reported at the end of discourse he had heard a rumor I was going to England. When asked by someone what he thought he said, "All I can say is God save the Queen." Osho certainly loved to tease me.

Frederick William Borden

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Jessica Reynolds

There was a rumor going around that this was going to be a violation on Friday.

Mark Frost

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

LeAnn Rimes

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors,

Terence McKenna

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Selena Gomez

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me...

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

S. Hughes

I think you're going to see some sideways consolidation throughout the summer,

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Stephen Rea

I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.

Susan Howatch

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.

Ed Schafer

I know it sounds crazy. But it works in the lab.

Fred Taylor

I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.

Alex Winston

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Star Jones

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Rebecca West

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

Rebecca West

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.