Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Pierce Baker

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

John Owen

We expect to report an operating margin between 2 percent and 4 percent, and that should bring us to a net loss for the full year. And for full-year, we are using an assumed fuel price of $1.92 (for a gallon of jet fuel). So, basically, $1.92 in the first quarter and an average of about $2 for each of the remaining three quarters.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Steven Wieting

The Fed has assumed that the weakness in the first quarter was temporary. This confirms that. The reasonable view was you don't have a one-third rise in energy prices without consequences.

Justin Beckett

The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would have an interest in doing this.

Wei Kong

The findings of our studies did not fit most people's preconceived notions about how DNA molecules work, so they assumed we had to be wrong. The critics seemed very sure of themselves, and we had a lot of sleepless nights.

Bob Bandoni

Already, it's clear to me that leadership from the senior class is effective. It's not necessarily coming from authority that sometimes is assumed by playing prowess. It's really coming by a moral authority, one that kind of transcends what happens in the field. They're established kids, very comfortable with themselves and very genuine and enthusiastic on the field, but genuine in their responses to the younger players.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Mark Greene

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Bertrand Russel

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

David Tennant

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Shania Twain

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

John Key

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

Chris Seeger

The likelihood of it being granted is about one in a million.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Matisyahu

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

Amanda Voorhis

We have to become more proficient ball-handlers. They're learning from their mistakes.

Jamie Russell

He was learning a lot from his dad.

William Ellery Channing

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Virgil

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

William Cobbett

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

William Golding

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Shannon Hildreth

I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.

Samantha Aldom

I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going through this process with people you know.

Joe Mantello

I lived with a playwright for 12 years,

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Cassandra Clare

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Joseph Cook

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Manners form the great charm of women.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Tom Robbins

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Warren Buffett

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Darrell Bricker

Harper is going to win on Monday, there's no question about that.

Helen Rowland

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Tracey Smith

I'm sure he'll be tried one way or the other. The question is how and when.

Michael Cimino

I know the market's there, ... The question is, 'How do you reach it, and how do you communicate with the end user?'

Rod Barnes

I'm not going to take those questions today.

Robert Hill

And it's really a question of how long that takes. But what I'm saying to you is I don't think that should take too long.

Nicholas Johnson

All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching?

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Martin Bormann

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Peter L. Berger

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

Terence McKenna

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Ron Chernow

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.