Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

The president has moved the goal posts. Americans understand changing the rules of the game; they don't like it,

Penelope Tree

Wearing the right thing, at the right moment, could actually change your life.

Earl Blumenauer

I think this is an affirmation of the value of Public Broadcasting. I think it's going to lead this week to hundreds of people changing their wills.

George Jones

I'm in favor of changing the name today because I feel we will reach more people.

John Zorn

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

Ariel Sharon

The changing reality in this country, in this region and in the world required another reassessment and changing of positions,

David Mott

The changing face of pharmacy will be increasingly evident in the next five to 10 years with more women in the work force, the potential for more part-time work by pharmacists and the desire of pharmacists to spend more time on counseling and other patient services.

John Jenkins

The conditions over there might be totally different. Changing the criteria will enable us to control things better than we could through outside sources.

Peter Smith

The entertainment industry is changing rapidly, with an emphasis on instant access.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Amy Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Annette Bening

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Anne Sexton

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

D. H. Lawrence

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Dan Brown

God's will is your deepest desires.

David Platt

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Alexander Dubcek

Socialism with a human face.

Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Jose Vizcaino

He's the face of the franchise, and now he's not there. He didn't want to go out like that.

Joe Russo

He's just a joy to coach. And he's got a smile on his face 24/7.

Milan Brown

He's pretty much been the face of our program. He's been really big for us because at the time it wasn't probably 'good' or 'cool' to come to Mount St. Mary's. And we had a player come to Mount St. Mary's.

Olmedo Saenz

I don't really know why to be honest. I'm not that great a hitter. When I face him (Duke), I don't know, I just get lucky.

Giorgio Rocca

I didn't even have any time to react. I already had my face in the snow.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Mark Chandler

We haven't seen any planting of any note for five years.

Dick Jauron

You'll hear me say, 'We've had a terrific draft.' Because you always take people you like and feel are good. But truly, you have to wait and see how it pans out. You may not know how good you did until five years later.

Jim Tressel

You just never know (about recruits). So who will do it? I don't know that any of us at this time last year would have thought ... (freshman) Malcolm Jenkins would start five games at cornerback.

Steve Kellar

Wilton is a good team. They took Waldorf down to the wire before losing by five last week.

Tim Stewart

Wireless technology has really matured a lot in the last five years. Not only has it matured, it's become affordable.

Steve Meyers

Wherever these laws have been in place for five years or more, parents and students agree, it's good.

Chris Clarke

We couldn't get that lead over five points. We were doing a lot of good things, but just couldn't get over that five-point hump.

Nancy Bain

We couldn't get five people in one spot.

Ellen Glasgow

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Dusty Baker

We sent him out to see if he can find more consistency. One time he's real good, the next time bad.

Brian Johnson

We actually have turned work away on ethanol. Right now, we have a workload that takes us out to next summer . . . and that's just with ethanol.

Taquan Dean

It's not for me, it's for years to come. This is a springboard for next year.

Rick Parry

It's not a no or a yes - there has been plenty of speculation and we will see next week. It's always encouraging when a player says he wants to come to Liverpool.

Gail Bronson

Everyone recognizes that wireless platforms are the next rev (step) of the Internet.

Bob Cook

Students will be as safe as ever and once again, this is just for one week. Next week we will be back to normal.

Dan Wiener

These three-year numbers that are going to be popping up in the media, and in advertisements over the next week or two, are going to be astounding.

John LeClair

I want to play again. I have another year on my contract, and we'll take it from there. As of (Wednesday) I'm planning on playing next year.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

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.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

James Branch Cabell

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Jim Butcher

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

Jessica Alba

There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.

Irvin S. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

Iris Murdoch

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Ida B. Wells

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Ida B. Wells

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Amos Lee

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Anna Howard Shaw

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Conrad Hilton

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

Conrad Aiken

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Corita Kent

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Daniel Yankelovich

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Andre Maurois

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.