Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Hunt

I think it's the one thing that people of all ages can benefit from year-round here in the county.

Robert Pitofsky

I can learn the person's social security number, occupation, the names and ages of the person's spouse and children, names of the person's names, the value of the person's home and property taxes paid on that home,

Hans Blix

In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky,

Jack Schwartz

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

If you lived in the Dark Ages and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, ""Can't you make it shoot farther?"" ""No, I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots.

Rick Santorum

I have six children ages 4-14. And the idea of coming off a race of the intensity that I am engaged in at this point and turning around and running another two-year campaign for president is not something that I believe is in the best interest of my family,

John Niven

I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that's perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I'm doing fine, thanks. Sometimes 'leaving kids to their own devices' is the best thing for them.

Lord Byron

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.

Chris Irizarry

The city never had anything for boys and girls ages 5 to 13, so for the first time in the history of Union City that we wanted to start a soccer recreation program.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ronald Curry

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.

Richelle Mead

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

Walter Dean Myers

Each of us is born with a history already in place

John Avery

I think it (ball control) was the difference in the game,

Gregg Brandon

He's doing a nice job with it. It can get overwhelming, which it's becoming. We have to manage that and make sure it doesn't get out of control and we're able to keep him grounded and focused on the task at hand.

Steve Giambanco

I thought we really had control in that game.

Nelson Cundiff

I thought we were in control most of the night, but they were able to fight back.

Derek Jeter

I thought he battled. He lost some control in that one inning but kept us in the game. We had our opportunities to score but we couldn't come up with that big hit.

Michael Chertoff

I think the American public is rightly distressed about a situation in which they feel we do not have proper control over our borders, ... We need to have a comprehensive solution and one that really will work.

Satoru Iwata

I was a developer for many years before my current role, but I've never been a very good gamer. I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

Bruce Buck

What Montel allows us to do is to control the secondary so you can do more up front,

Larry Brown

We're playing under control better. We're not just running up and down the court. I feel good about everybody's contribution.

Muhammad Iqbal

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Sathya Baba

Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.

Atharva Veda

THE river of human life meanders along, through many a valley, leaps over many a cliff, loses itself in many a marsh and seeks to empty itself in the ocean of Divine Grace; though, what happens is that it falls into the undrinkable expanse of salt.

James E. Faust

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

Lactantius

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Victor Hugo

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

Socrates

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

Philip Sidney

...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...

Mark Twain

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Sheila Thomas

We are very proud of him. We give God all the glory.

John Piper

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

Michel Foucault

there is no glory in punishing

Gerard Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

Cassandra Clare

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

George Sand

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

John Milton

My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest.

Sal Fasano

He's not a glory hound. He just goes and does his job, and I'm sure he's happy keeping it that way.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Alex Salmond

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Camille Little

A lot of the time, we just wanted to stay positive. We're the No. 1 team in the nation and we need to play like it. We weren't doing that.

Terry Ebbert

This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace.

Ed Loyd

There isn't any nation in the world that requires 100 percent testing.

Jeff Wangsness

It really would give us some nice national exposure.

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Tony Dang

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

Henry Rollins

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Evan Harris

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Robert Redford

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

W. H. Auden

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Tony Stewart

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

Wes Anderson

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

Roger Bannister

Beating John Landy was my defining race.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Markus Gandler

I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.

Susan Gibbs

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

Nate Mendel

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Virgil

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life...

William Raspberry

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

Nhat Hanh

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Noam Chomsky

The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

Moby

We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.