Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Simonson

Last year, 32 states and the District of Columbia were short of cement. Many will have worse shortages this year,

Trey Gowdy

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Linda Hale

We had a dinner party with eight people last week. And six of the eight got lost. One ended up in Kentucky, one (group) on Columbia Parkway and another ... on the opposite side of Mount Adams.

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Esai Morales

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Michael Christie

Bernstein's presence will be felt throughout the season.

Dave Osborn

Blackstone felt they weren't able to pay that fee, so we're going to go forward with tearing it down.

Amanda Lindhout

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

Ang Lee

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

Bruce Hornsby

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Hillary Clinton

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Scott Goodale

We can't help but think about them. There's a tremendous rivalry between the two schools. But you have to try and stay focused on that first match. Ocean is good, very good. And they're dangerous.

Sadaharu Oh

We have to win all three games. So I will make sure they stay focused on (Sunday's) game.

Romain Grosjean

I like running. I am lucky for that; I don't find it hard. I like it as much as relaxing, actually. I am very focused on driving, and I don't like to party too much; that's just who I am.

Mia Wasikowska

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

Chris Cauble

We were going in hoping to win all three, but this makes us have to win our last two. It doesn't matter who we play; we have to come out focused and ready to play. We didn't do that tonight.

Dominique Johnson

We were getting frustrated in the first half. We had to come out focused in the second half and play with more intensity.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Gene Green

On issues like this, we are trying to pull together,

Michael Redman

From the time the weather service issues a warning to the time we have out sirens running, it's about one to two minutes.

Jennifer Lawrence

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

Flannery O'Connor

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

Christian Smith

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

George Will

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Jimmy Williams

We got started yesterday with a power cleaner. You can see we blasted out three previous coats.

Tim Taylor

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

Jeff Bower

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Maggie Magerko

We've had Thanksgivings together, so there's a strong relationship there.

A. A. Milne

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Dalai Lama

‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

Rita Rudner

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

Thomas More

Friendship demands attention.

Candice Accola

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

Chris Matthews

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Jim Butcher

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Jennie Finch

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Greg Norman

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Nelson Goodman

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.