Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Italian Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world

Guy Laliberte

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Pierre Corneille

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Benjamin Franklin

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

James Lane Allen

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Colin McRae

It's a real pity we had that puncture. The fight with Dani was fantastic. But I'm not sure that we could have conquered the first place. To finish second here is for me a great result on my first outing in Germany !

Curt Siodmak

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

Dave Chappelle

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Garel Rhys

It's the underperformance of Mercedes that is holding the whole empire back. If you get Mercedes right, you go a long way toward getting all of DaimlerChrysler right.

Ronald Reagan

The United States is unique because we are an empire of ideals.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Takeru Kobayashi

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

Daniel Pinkwater

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Kevin Taylor

We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.

Sharon Versyp

They had a run, then we had a run and it was back and forth after that.

Craig Martin

They've got a really good team. It was back and forth the whole time. It's the kind you like and don't like to coach.

John Adams

It really crackles back and forth with dialogue, especially in the first act, where people really scream at one another, as they should.

Van Toffler

It's all about circulating people back and forth between the different screens.

Jody Gravelin

It was back and forth in the first half and you never knew how it was going to turn out. We just didn't have it in the second half.

Terrence Holt

It was funny. We were going back and forth with each other, talking the whole game.

Carol Cohee

It was a lot of hauling things back and forth in the sand on the beach. ... The response (to our products) was great, I was pleased with how well they were received.

Cathy Alexander

It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

James Morris

This is a measure we should simply never have to take.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

Bill Bunch

The S.O.S. measure was completely validated, and they did that even after they had these questions.

Michael Hawthorne

Some people measure me at 6-3 and change, ... So I just round it up to 6-4.

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Cindy Cohn

This isn't really an anti-spam measure as much as a 'pay to speak' e-mail measure.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

William Cowper

There is a pleasure in poetic painsWhich only poets know.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Voltaire

say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Brian Ballard

There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, but most of it will be pretty good.

Sessue Hayakawa

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Bible Bible

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Saint Augustine

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.