Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Franck

The boys approached me and asked if they could do it. The seniors grew up with him. It was a nice thing to do.

Gianfranco Fini

As of today, the organizers of the conference had asked for entry visas for six Iraqi political exponents notorious for positions which are radical, extremist and not unequivocally hostile to terrorism,

Joseph Tate

As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred.

Hale Irwin

As long as I have a chance, that's all I've ever asked of myself.

Joseph Bridges

As Matt indicated, we essentially looked at the comments and asked which were complete and which were substantive.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why."Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes

Geoffrey Nice

Proof will include truth, but it will not present the full picture. We have a limitless field of evidence from the wars, but we are not inquiring like scientists; we are asked to extract from it.

Bob Long

Pro asked us questions like 'Who are your competitors?' and forced us to look at all the crevices of our business,

James Humphrey

Probably if you had asked me 30 seconds after I finished it, I could tell you.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

Harry Shearer

The music was born on the pianos of the front parlor of the brothels.

Bhagavad Gita

Adhering to this view these lost souls, with small intellect and cruel deeds, are born as enemies for the destruction of the world.

Rig Veda

The one in whose control are horses, cows, villages, all chariots; the one who has caused to be born the sun, the dawn; the one who is the waters' leader, he, O people, is Indra.

Susan Stewart

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Robin Marantz Henig

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Charles Dickens

Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Marie Kondo

People cannot change their tidying habits without first changing their way of thinking.

Claude Moise

People fear that if he cannot free himself from the Aristide base, he might become a prisoner of the very violent methods of that base.

Patrick Leonard

Officially, Aloha Stadium cannot confirm anything until there is a signed contract.

Philip Coyle

Norco was a prime example. Thanks to the hard work of our staff, I think we have a good understanding of what's correct and what's not. We cannot always rely on the DOD figures.

Bobby Holik

No scoreboard watching for me. I have a job to do and I cannot control what happens.

Richard Savage

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Mallory Jansen

I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

Ian McGeechan

We are a little unsettled due to injuries and face an Edinburgh team in form - they have lost only once at home since Christmas 2004.

Augustus Hare

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Augusten Burroughs

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

Fouad Ajami

a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.

Chelsea Clinton

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

Mary Szybist

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

Charles H. Townes

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

Vannevar Bush

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

George Farquhar

Says little, thinks less, and does - nothing at all, faith.

Ryan O'Marra

It was unbelievable that he showed that much faith in me.

David Lennon

We're here to give our gift for the holiday season to the tourists of New York. We're here on good faith to play. We intend to go to work.

Mike Pearson

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Dr. Wielgosz

It is as simple as putting a measuring tape around the waist. That will give an indication.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Arthur Ashe

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Aesop

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Alexander Hamilton

A promise must never be broken.

Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.