Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

Tod Nielsen

Therefore, Borland has chosen to focus wholly on its ALM business.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated, ... I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

Philip Clapp

At a time when these controversial issues need a leader who can find common ground, the president could not have chosen a more divisive nominee.

Jim Hayes

It's easier than ever. But you have to have a niche and fill it. We've chosen to be the local chronicle, the local voice.

Chip Williams

They have a wide receiver that has some good size. They have chosen to go to him about 50 percent of the time,

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Todd Matthews

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

Todd Matthews

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

Steve Manzuik

There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,

Craig White

We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.

Bertrand Russell

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Populism is dangerous.

Marie Sevigne

There is no person who is not dangerous for someone

Philip Teel

Accomplishing such a daunting task much earlier than originally scheduled demonstrates the fighting spirit of our work force.

Kent Perkins

It's a daunting task, but they're very successful.

Cary Fukunaga

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

Phil Jackson

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Tom Brokaw

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Olivia Goldsmith

As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

Preston Beckman

The Olympics aren't as daunting as people think they are.

Carrie Edgar

Some people will have never tried it before. Gardening can be a daunting task.

Richie Sambora

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bill Clinton

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

Clay Harpster

It was Daytona's finest house. I spent a lot of time there as a kid.

Dave Stilley

It was completely 'guilty till proven innocent' instead of the other way around. It's a shame. . . . I've been reserving judgment until the trial. You'd think the administration at Duke, one of the finest universities in the country, would react the same way.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Dr. Wildenthal

Boone Pickens is one of this country's greatest philanthropists, and Eugene Frenkel is one of its finest physicians, so this partnership is as appropriate as it is meaningful.

Bob McKillop

Brendan Winters had perhaps his finest game in a Davidson uniform. He has had many, many illustrious games in his career. But to have that finest one on championship Sunday is quite a special feat.

Catherine Jinks

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

John Burnside

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Paul Robeson

For many years I have so labored and I can say modestly that my name is very much honored all over Africa, in my struggles for their independence.

Jeff Judkins

This is very special to me to have that number up there. I'm very honored . . .I've had a lot of wonderful memories in this building.

Edward Gardner

This is a way for his memory to be honored and have a presence in the movie.

Brad Thor

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Bill Gibbons

Phoenix is honored to be the newest member of the Glen Raven team.

Scott Stevens

I am truly humbled and honored to be here tonight.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Henry Cisneros

If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here, and our motives are to be helpful.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

William Shakespeare

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Mike Roberts

We were as proud as we could be with the young man.

Charles Baudelaire

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Charles Rangel

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Kelvin Philpot

We're going to find a way to get her here. She'll see how proud she can be of her kid.

Dale Petroskey

What we're proudest of is the broadening of knowledge.

Catherine Ashton

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Catherynne M. Valente

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Aaron Lowe

Being (here) has been wonderful. It's very rewarding after all of this time.

Dallas Smith

I just want to have fun. It's just rewarding to get to this point.

James O'Boyle

It's very rewarding work. There's a lot of variety; I can sit here and do books, write checks, wash cars, garden, embalm. That's what makes it interesting.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Rangel

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.