Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Katrina makes it clear this government has failed, ... We must find out why immediately to make sure the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Steve Sanford

There are a lot of species that come for landscaping, for pets, that don't cause problems. We didn't write a definition that would be bulletproof.

Doug Smith

I think it's cause for concern but not alarm.

Kelly Ryan

I think that really, for the vast majority of dogs, it's not a problem, and if the people are cool with it and it's not interfering with their sleep, fine. But for some dogs, it can cause confusion about who's running the show.

Kathleen Camilli

I think the greater risk is that higher energy prices will cause consumers to pull back, slowing overall economic growth.

Lara Rhame

I think the employment situation is getting better, slowly, so I don't think it will cause the consumer to shut down, ... But job growth like this makes consumer spending that much more fragile, if some exogenous shock should hit.

Richard Neuhaus

I think the barbarity of the English language currently used in the liturgy is cause enough for sorrow without further fiddling in terms of feminist inclusiveness.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Tony Buzan

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

Sugata Mitra

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Sugata Mitra

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Ann Veneman

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

William Moulton Marston

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Susan Grant

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Vince Gill

It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is defeat which educates us.

Shirley Chisholm

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Kraig Troxell

It can be deceiving. You think . . . you're in the middle of nowhere, when in fact there's a lot of traffic on a lot of these back roads.

Madeline Albright

I always do truly think about the fact that I have Thomas Jefferson's job, ... That is the part that always undoes me, because it is so hard to comprehend.

Seth Shostak

If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?

Bob Hill

Our big guys couldn't handle Kaman and Brand. I thought we fought and got ourselves back in position to win the game. But we let them back in the game when we could have put them away. Not for the game, but for the spread at halftime.

Dan Bennett

(Rodriguez) said that he fought two guys with a stun gun and a knife and he jumps out of the car. In the report, he said he saw a stun gun before he got in. This is ridiculous.

Larry Brown

In the fourth quarter, we were phenomenal. It would've been a crime, as hard as our guys fought back, not to have anything positive to show for it.

Kyle Doherty

His legs are one of his strong points. I was just trying to stay away from his legs as much as possible. He's just a great wrestler all the way around. Give him credit, he fought me off.

Erik Engstrom

I'm obviously very disappointed. We fought really hard and we let it slip away at the end. ... Sometimes games just don't go your way.

Keenan McCardell

The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way down till we were on the ground. I had it and he stuck his hand in between. He made a good play. He waited till the last minute to stick his hand through there and he got it.

Lynn Washowich

Alston is tough. I was disappointed we let them get out like that, but we fought back.

E. O. Wilson

The girls played hard. It was a well fought game.

O. Henry

The game got physical, and we had too many turnovers. But all year, our girls fought hard, and they did tonight until the very end. I was very proud of them.

Lance Williams

He knew he was better than Mark McGwire. It offended him when people said Mark McGwire might be the greatest player who ever lived.

Ken Dunham

Historically, risk is much higher with Windows operating systems than Unix/Linux. How can I say that, look at all the major attacks. Which ones had the greatest likelihood and impact for 2005? Windows hands down.

Donald Every

I think it's his greatest accomplishment, one that has the potential for the longest-term impact.

Jamie Trowbridge

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

Vince Young

I guess we would be the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of all time.

Carl Edwards

I'm not the greatest qualifier, and I'm learning a lot,

Scott Graham

I literally have the greatest job in the world.

Jim Montgomery

I remember it like yesterday. It was one of the greatest moments of my life.

Carol Kaplan

I have the greatest role model that ever existed, ... She worked long before it was fashionable for women to be out in the work force.

Janusz Bednarski

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Lois Frankel

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

Bill Gates

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

Phil McNichol

I'm just very impressed with the team we've been able to field.

Frank Coleman

That really impressed me; it's a significant figure.

Ryan Giggs

Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree. He impressed me from the start.

Tim Sheldon

I've been trying to get them to play with a little heart. We've been in this situation before and we've let down. They impressed me today.

Aaron Guiel

You're impressed with the outcome, but not impressed by what you saw up there.

Nat Harrington

We've been impressed and proud of the schools and students who have responded graciously and generously. Many students have spent their own lunch money and hard-earned savings to give to the victims of the storm.

Richard Wallace

You impressed me with the Senate, throwing everything in lock, stock and barrel.

Asa Dotzler

We're very impressed with the videos that have been contributed so far.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Robyn Hitchcock

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Robert Southey

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

Virginie LeDoyen

I'm pretty normal looking.

Roselyn Sanchez

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Oliver Hoyte

He has so many different running styles. On one play he's running like a scat back. On one play he's running like a power back. He's a versatile back.

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Trip Hawkins

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Jim Mattox

He's been there 30 years, he doesn't have to prove anything to anybody,

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Richelle Mead

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

Zachary Quinto

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

Antonin Scalia

If you want to prove a contractual relationship with the United States, then the only relevant relationship is that as a spy.

Hisayasu Nagata

In the end, I could not prove the authenticity of the information.

Julie Brown

I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

Turkish Proverb

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Rio Ferdinand

That just proves the quality we have here with some of the young players.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Zen Saying

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Ryan Seacrest

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Saint Augustine

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Winston Churchill

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

William C. Bryant

The victory of endurance born.

Walter Scott

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Vladimir Putin

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

Vladimir Putin

Indeed, that is exactly what they [the Arctic convoys] were. We know that the conditions in which they fought were appalling. Time and again they faced death in the name of a common victory and we remember that.

Winston Churchill

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.