Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Carl Pohlad

It was tough, but you've got to pay what the market is. It wasn't easy because this sort of thing really isn't our policy. But there's an exception to every rule, and Santana is exceptional. We couldn't afford to lose him.

Ryan Getzlaf

It was a little frustrating to give up a two-goal lead, but we had to win. We couldn't afford to lose tonight.

Kevin McGowan

They accommodate the load very well. We couldn't even afford them at wholesale prices.

Mary Howell

These are two state-of-the-art hearing aids. There was no way her family could afford them.

Michael Kelly

This is a nice gesture for the students who can't necessarily afford to go to prom. It's also nice that other students are helping others.

Steve Warren

You wouldn't believe how busy we are, ... It's very interesting to see the awareness pick up. Most (people) are finding out that technology is your friend in this situation.

Deepak Chopra

Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.

Octav Druta

Even if you don't see the world the way it is, the world is the way it is.

Kayla Parker

Everyone should go to Take Back the Night. Even if you're not a victim, you should support the awareness that they're creating.

Linda Baker

There's much work to be done, but there's enough people behind this effort that I think it will culminate in an increased awareness of the Trail of Tears in Georgia. Our primary goal in all this is to bring it back to life.

Deepak Chopra

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Steve Wilkerson

We hope it increases public awareness of what the telephone companies are trying to achieve.

Ernest Becker

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

Tim Neale

There is a greater awareness of what the regulations are.

Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Bible Bible

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Mark Goodman

It would be projected to be at a certain place at a certain time, and then Mother Nature would stop it. It messed up our timing.

Michael Mann

I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again... Sometimes nature makes choices for you.

Lucille Reynolds

I see the working of the Lord in my life. We have so much compared to other people. Some people say that I have earned it. But God has given me certain things in my life.

Mark Headley

I've been impressed with the government in certain cases, but these companies' inability to control their environment is very real, and this will keep the market very volatile.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Muqtada al Sadr

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

Ian Mcewan

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Rex Grossman

I knew right away, and I was kind of in denial to start with,

Charles Caleb Colton

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Rafael Vinoly

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Brian Selznick

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Brenda Ueland

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Nastassja Kinski

But because of these different experiences, and often because of their pain, older people's lives are very fascinating to me.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Anthea Turner

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

Steve Jobs

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Nick Wechsler

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

Monica Potter

Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

Mark Martin

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mads Mikkelsen

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Denis Diderot

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Dan Colen

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

Sri Chinmoy

Miracles do happen in every human life.

Stephenie Meyer

Carlisle: "I've seen vampire venom work miracles, but there are conditions that even venom cannot overcome."

Tim Ward

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

Thomas Chalmers

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

Susan Stroman

It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.

Stephen King

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Trent Dilfer

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Pat Scales

There's not a public school out there that doesn't have a mission statement that says it serves all students,

Mitch Landrieu

We miss you, and we want you back.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Jessica Lynch

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Howard Thurman

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Iyanla Vanzant

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

Nick Barth

More people are starting to notice that we're here.

Tom Clancy

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Devon Werkheiser

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Casey Affleck

Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Richard Lovelace

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

Ray Kroc

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Thomas Jefferson

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.