Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

Carlos Gutierrez

The American economy is fundamentally strong and has proven time and again to be remarkably resilient in the most challenging of times,

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Rich Harden

That was interesting. I didn't like losing that at-bat, but I had to keep going and keep making my pitches. ... It's a pretty good feeling, coming out and playing like that against one of the best teams in baseball.

Derek Roy

That was huge, especially against this team. That opened things up for us, and gave us some momentum.

Luis Carmona

That was huge, especially against a good team like Lee and the tough keeper they have. They're a great all-around team, so don't take anything away from them. We had to perform and we did and we came out with the victory.

Andy Gentry

That was great tonight, wasn't it? We really challenged our kids. (Thursday) night against Lee County, it was a very emotional game that went down to the last inning.

Jamie Dixon

That was a very good win against a very good team, well-coached and a tough, athletic group. We found a way to gut it out. We didn't shoot the lights out and it wasn't a pretty game, but we found a way to battle through.

Idina Menzel

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

Warren Giles

I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

Bashar al-Assad

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Hal Rogers

the American people have a right to know what happened in preparation for and immediately following the storm.

Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

Nancy Carter

We just did not have good working relationship with them for a while. They were not good in following through with things they said they were going to do with the city.

Adam Burish

You just can't put it into words. I know I haven't stopped smiling yet. This whole game was great for the program. Every time you put that sweater on you're representing all the great players that have played here, all the championships that have been won. It is a special place at Wisconsin and the following we have is second to none.

James Armstrong

I think this is following in a long line of great San Francisco nuttiness.

David Herro

Managers, instead of following their convictions, are following the crowd. There is a herd instinct.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Leo Veness

We will all soon realize that we are a society of spirit

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Lynndie England

I was used by Pvt. Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Billy Donovan

We realize the toughest stretch of the season is here.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Violence doesn't equal strength.

Aasif Mandvi

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Betty Williams

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Edward James Olmos

Education is a vacine for violence

Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Carl Jung

Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

Chazz Palminteri

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.