Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Pat Williams

Ray Davis made some big 3s for us. I told my kids that if they didn't want to hear me yell, then they better play hard.

Dwane Casey

I've always liked Ricky Davis from afar. Sooner or later, it's going to happen. Might as well start him right now.

Steve Spurrier

Cory Boyd and Mike Davis are running very well. Mike is a lot faster than he was last year and Cory is in excellent shape.

Joel Davis

The fact that this happened in Davis is what makes this a book, ... You'd be hard-pressed to go around Davis today and find kids this good as (John and Sabrina) were back then.

Rich Gannon

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders. I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

Brad Coker

Basically, Crist and Davis are nominal front-runners. Going in, they are going to be the favorites.

Tony Quinn

He was larger than life, not a Gray Davis or Pete Wilson, who were technicians. He said, 'I am Arnold. I can move mountains.' But then he didn't deliver?. He delivered midgets when he promised giants.

Michael Turner

He had only generous words for Ray Davis and Koshiba.

Mark Shapiro

Our original plan in the off-season was to slate the No. 5 spot in the rotation for a younger player (Jason Davis or Fausto Carmona) and to spend money to upgrade elsewhere. When we were unable to get some other things done, we saw an opportunity to improve the team by signing Jason. The young guys still could end up playing a role for us in 2006.

Deepak Chopra

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Albert Einstein

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Alfred North Whitehead

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Alfred North Whitehead

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Albert Einstein

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Deepak Chopra

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Franz Kafka

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Uli Hoeness

We're playing for the people, not for the regime. We want to reduce this to soccer only.

Matt Hasselbeck

The Pro Bowl. But I don't feel like playing right now.

Arlen Specter

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

Rashard Lewis

I feel like we weren't playing hard. We were just kind of going through the motions.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Dinesh D'Souza

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

David Cook

We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

Patrick Griffet

The public is welcome. It's a name-your-own-price rummage sale.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Confucius

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

Anne Frank

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Mignon McLaughlin

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Mason Cooley

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Marilyn Monroe

The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).

Adam Carolla

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Robert McNamara

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Simone de Beauvoir

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Timothy Radcliffe

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Ron Ward

This is a terrific opportunity, and I can't wait to really start contributing.

Greg Knapp

This is the first year that he's starting off in the same offense, healthy, back-to-back.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Kevin Jones

That's what they know. When we start winning, it won't be that way.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.