Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Yasser Arafat

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

Russell Potts

This is an artificial, 15 percent criteria, ... The whole arrogance and smugness of establishing this threshold, it's a discrimination issue and a fairness issue.

Felipe Roque

This has been a summit of selfishness, arrogance and lies.

Stephen Hess

They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a front-page story. There was something in their attitude there that I think is going to have a lingering effect, about how a certain arrogance seemed to have crept into the White House complex.

Kirk Johnson

It's an interesting kind of arrogance to dismiss something that you don't know a lot about.

Tom Brokaw

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Paul O'Neill

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

Wayne Gandy

I think we were moving it pretty well. We killed ourselves with turnovers and false starts.

Bruce Silverglade

The Internet is a veritable minefield of false and misleading claims.

Laura Ahearn

That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.

Ken Starr

That is false and you know it to be false,

David Jenkins

Taking a pill may give people the false impression that they have nothing further to do to protect their health and prevent them from making serious lifestyle changes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Paula Abdul

All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Carl Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Julie Benz

I actually, when I read the script I knew it was going to be a big hit. In my gut, my gut said that this show was going to be it.

Elliott Sadler

Guys are going to have to race their guts out to pass.

Clinton Portis

Guts and power. You want to win the game, don't you?

Mike Tyson

I don't have the guts to stay in this sport anymore.

Dan Winzenried

He had the guts to go out and do that. That's a tough event.

William Graham Sumner

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Miranda Lambert

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Scott Browne

Before districts, I told them, 'This is the last chance, and we're going to gut it out.' And they were all in agreement.

Phil Lesh

And many times that did take place, but what I've said in the past, and my gut feeling, is that it was started to calcify in a sense.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Angela Ruggiero

Cammi is USA Hockey, really. Every single player on our roster has learned something from Cammi Granato and she'll leave that legacy whether she's here or not.

Glenn Tilton

If there's anything I learned in 32 years in the oil business, it's not to speculate on oil prices.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

Richelle Mead

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

Umberto Eco

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Samuel Johnson

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Samuel Richardson

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Mike Lorello

He tends to remind me about that a lot. You just have to roll with the punches around here.

David Jones

I'm surprised he won. He's just punching it out there.

Bruce Cutler

They figuratively punched him around until he said something.

Troy Dayak

There was pushing and a lot of talking but I did not punch him,

Al Madrigal

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

Jamar Butler

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

Sylvester Croom

There's not a day where he just comes out to punch a clock.

Chuck Palahniuk

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

Tim Kaine

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

Justin Upton

I think we're so competitive, ... he wouldn't even realize I'm his brother.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Richard Jefferson

I really didn't even realize it was that crazy.

Scott Lewis

I never thought there would be so many. I didn't realize the state has as much technology as it has.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Dave Eggers

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Harriet Ziefert

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Al Thornton

I truly feel like we have done enough to get in the tournament.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.