Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sung Sohn

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

Conrad Lautenbacher

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

Mikko Hypponen

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

Paul Browne

We got the momentum (after the first goal). We always had the better of the play, but (Braden River) was defending good. I tell you, (Braden River) next year is going to have a really good team. It's a new school that is just starting off. But they battled really well and never gave up.

Nadia Petrova

I was very exhausted this morning. I didn't feel 100 percent, and actually I didn't really play my game. I did more defending than anything.

Tom Greene

I think Robert Morris is a very talented team. They scared me when they jumped out to that lead, but we regrouped at halftime. We started playing better defense and defending their perimeter shot better.

Bobby Jones

It doesn't matter that we've never seen the family. They lost someone defending our freedom, and we owe them more gratitude than we can ever give them. We're really happy to be able to do this.

Drew Miller

We're defending champs, we want to repeat and the pressure is on us to get to the finals and win it again.

Ryan Hunter

We're defending a league championship for the third straight year. Any time you're doing that, everyone's gunning for you.

Brian Phelan

We especially got hurt on the defensive boards. (Zion) had a lot of put-backs. We did a good job initially defending them, but then we let them have too many second and third shots.

Ian Mckellen

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

William Christopher

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

Billy Graham

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Annie Leibovitz

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

NeNe Leakes

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

Nik Wallenda

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Matthew Smith

The 30-year is the hot IPO of 2006.

Micky Arison

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

Bill Hartley

We're really pleased to have one of the country's hottest retailers.

Phil Everly

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

Scott Medalen

It didn't seem like much was working for a while. They got off to a hot start.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

John Lindsey

Just because it's the middle part of September doesn't mean we couldn't have some pretty hot weather.

Cliff Curtis

I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.

Nelson Gonzalez

We know our strengths and know our weaknesses and one of our weaknesses has been supply chain.

Jim Bowden

We're right there with them. We have some strengths that other teams don't have. We have some weaknesses. ... But when you look at the whole picture, our team can compete.

James E. Faust

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Mike Sullivan

One of the strengths of our team is our versatility,

Mike Montgomery

We just got to do it with this group. Find out what our strengths are.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.