Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Mike Massucci

During our timeout with :06 left, Travis told me he wanted the ball. It wasn't said with arrogance. It was just an inner-confidence.

Derrick Mason

Coach Billick, he just has a personality about him that you don't understand unless you're playing for him, ... He's all about his players. Did I think it was arrogance when I first got here? Yes. But now that I am here, I truly see what type of coach he is.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Morshed Khan

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Donna Lopiano

I think the public's more understanding now of the gay and lesbian issue. It's much more sophisticated than it was two or three decades ago.

Preston Burch

I think two more decades of flight is a real possibility for Hubble,

Chelsea Clinton

How we use these surpluses in this moment of prosperity will determine America's future for decades to come. Nothing will more surely determine it than making the right choices,

Robert Muir

In the decades to come, the equation will be completely different from what it is now,

Money Magazine

The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that they've made over the decades that we allege that they engaged in these illegal, anticompetitive activities,

Alan Greenspan

An increase in inflation doggedly forecast to follow the ever lower unemployment rate--now the lowest in three decades -- has not occurred,

Gregory Benford

Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we'll have to master the resources of our solar system - especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances.

Jill Taylor

You'd think that after three decades on the radio he'd know when a microphone was on. But no, there were several instances of profanity on the air.

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Pierre Pettigrew

He is ultimately a man of distrust. Mr. Duplessis engaged in the same dialogue of distrust toward Ottawa.

Erin Healy

It is a dialogue to discuss realistic, comprehensive immigration reform. We are in the consultation phase.

James McTeigue

It is a controversial subject matter but it is also a dialogue we have every day.

Brad Smith

I think we had a very constructive dialogue yesterday.

Samuel Simon

If you're an MCI customer, you really don't need to do anything. In the incredible event that something happens to your service, you can always dial around.

Walid Jumblatt

If the process of dialogue will stay in deadlock, we have to stick to the street.

Brad Smith

I only wish we could have had this dialogue sooner.

Michael Jai White

I love the movie 'Taken,' but the dialogue in the beginning of that movie is hilarious. They're talking, these commando types, and there's dialogue like, 'Hopefully your daughter appreciates what you're doing for her. Does she know that you're doing it?' What guys talk like this?

Ron Shaffer

I know from doing it myself once or twice, that I'm looking at the phone to dial the number and then I look up and I'm in another lane.

William Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Bill Bradley

In 30 seconds you can say a lot,

Elena Dementieva

If she has 20 seconds, she's going to use 25 seconds between points,

Drew Bledsoe

It was over about 30 seconds after it started.

Cyndi Valentin

It was 11 seconds left, and we were trying to penetrate and pitch. I was open, and the shot just didn't go in.

Mark Hyman

It took about two seconds for it to really sink in. ... I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I won!'

John Flanagan

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

Joanne Froggatt

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

Brian Bickford

You have two or three seconds to get someone's attention. What we look for is those kind of attention-getting devices.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Richelle Mead

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

Venus Williams

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Marion Bartoli

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

John Constable

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.