Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Don Rickles

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Brittany Howard

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Craig Conroy

That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us.

Eleanor Norton

We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.

Joseph Garcia

We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

David Eckstein

We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there.

Bruce Bowen

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Todd Rosenbluth

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

Barbra Montez

We can't keep them in stock. People are buying them by the handful. They are so cute and cheap.

Raymond Burr

I once had a long relationship with a lady, and wherever I went in the world, if I saw something she would look great in, a gown or gloves or a ring, I always knew what color she liked most. I knew her size, what material she appreciated most, and I spent the whole time buying gifts for her. And I loved her very much.

Arthur Tucker

We have those indicators that kids are buying into the magnet school concept and that parents are supporting the magnet school concept.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Alan Lakein

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Marvin Sapp

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

Noah Taylor

I have just been burnt, ... I have revealed myself occasionally to journalists and regretted the way they have written it.

Farrah Fawcett

It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

H. Hunt

I've always regretted we didn't go for two,

Publilius Syrus

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence

Mary Lambert

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

Bob Coleman

We don't store it on the property. So, as soon as it comes out of the pipe, it's burned. So, if we have an interruption on the other end of the system, very soon we could have a shortage.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Dorothy Johnson

It can't come soon enough, ... It is going to be thrilling.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.