Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Oprah Winfrey

Matthew's search for stories of people that he could help led him to an abandoned hospital in New Orleans, ... Inside were beloved pets that families had been forced to leave behind during this evacuation. One man vowed to keep them alive. And Matthew went to help him.

Jacques Santini

Marcel needs maybe two or three training sessions to be operational for 90 minutes, but he has not abandoned the idea of playing (in the competition).

Charles Dickens

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Charlie Smith

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Chip Dickinson

The thing I like most out of our girls in both games is ... the girls didn't get down. Their maturity level between last year and this year is a phenomenal difference.

Bobby Bowden

I want both of 'em practicing with a No. 1 mentality.

John Biddle

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

Daniel Lee

After examining the growth of the market and the status of the competition, we've decided to build a facility that is significant in both scope and quality. We intend to lead the currently underserved downtown gaming and entertainment market and today's announcement reflects that commitment.

Bob Horen

After evaluating Michelle today, the monitoring committee felt very strongly that she is more than ready to compete at the Olympics. Both her short program and free skate were very solid, and she showed us that her levels and jumps are ready for international competition.

Ray Boulger

The most important requirement is to have enough income to support both mortgages. The decision then is whether to raise all your money on the main residence, or to split it.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Neil Callaway

I think the commitment that Shock made to come back makes him a special type person. A lot of people would have bolted, but he hung in here with us, and we're grateful for that.

Peter Ragone

Today he informed the mayor that he is going to take on that role. The man should be lauded for his commitment to the city.

William J. Clinton

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

Richard Schickel

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Robert Rauschenberg

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

Robert M. Hutchins

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Bret Calhoun

We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run for a quarter-million dollars in a Grade III like this too many times. We thought she fit as well as any other horse in here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Rand Paul

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

Michael Newman

No. No I felt terrible for our customers. I felt terrible for the problems that they had. I understand putting 50 dollars of gas in your tank is a real problem. There was no price gouging in Western New York.

Fanny Brice

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe.

J. Paul Getty

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Marguerite Moreau

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Edgar Watson

You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue--agree with him.

Dries van Noten

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Anne White

I was terrified and could easily have flipped the car,

James Morris

I wish the problems of this region could be easily solved, but the reality is that many millions of people will face extreme difficulties even if there are better harvests this year.

Billy Donovan

I can't live their lives for them. They could just as easily get hurt doing something on the court.

Bruce Steinberg

October job loss could easily be worse. The unemployment rate is headed for 6 percent, in our view.

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Kurt Cobain

I wish I was like you, easily amused.

Bob King

I was the only reporter there, and Watt and his handlers were a little nonplused that I wasn't more easily evaded.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Monica Tooley

We really had a strong team effort. The effort was great the entire time. ... We fixed a lot of things today.

Ben Lindsey

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Glen Gulutzan

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

Dave Baseggio

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

Rajneesh

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Norman Foster

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Max de Pree

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Edmund Spenser

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

Edmund Spenser

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

Charles Bukowski

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

Edward Markey

How can any of you justify no testing of these tires after two years? I want to hear you justify to American families with two kids strapped into the back seat: How can you justify that you have not done the tests?

Charlize Theron

I think the most important thing that I got from them was when I got to be with their families and with their children,

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We remain at the side of the grief-stricken families ... The government will not stop at messages of condolence. Those responsible ? whoever they are ? will be found,

Donna White

We don't know how many families will need to be a part of this program.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

Tish Dietrich

Families have literally put their lives on hold.

Jeanine L'Ecuyer

The governor's reaction is that this is not acceptable. For the last year or so these troops have been under the impression that they could take their families with them.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Hillary Clinton

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Chris Gamble

I feel comfortable at cornerback, ... The main thing is staying focused and not giving up the big plays.

Manny Pacquiao

I don't look ahead... I keep focused on my next opponent. I am looking forward to my next opponent, I don't think past that point.

Cameron Bennerman

He got on us, but we also focused on the good things we've done.

Richard Mandella

He might have been a little short of training because of what we did. I think the blinkers may have focused him a little better.

Steve Matlock

Our reorganized sales management team is 100 percent focused on providing dealers with the support they need to be successful in their businesses.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Willie Randolph

Gotta do it on the field, brother. In a perfect world, yeah, I'd like somebody to step up.... To have that solid lineup, solid foundation every day is what you like as a manager.

Giordano Bruno

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Carl Jung

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

R. Inge

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

Michael Emerson

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Greg Sand

Zach Lund is one of the most talented pilots on tour right now, no question. That's why he's successful. That's what people need to realize. It's got nothing to do with him using something to help male-pattern baldness.

Billy Bush

You see, that?s funny. You can't help but laugh but when you think about it it says its mean.

John Travis

You see people who need help and you try to help them out and give a little back to the community.

Jenny Susser

Your psyche can really help you and it can really hurt you.

Dr. Ratard

No such outbreak occurred because of Hurricane Katrina.

Michael Chertoff

We are going to be very prepared for Hurricane Wilma.

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Sean Collins

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Mike DeBord

It could very well be because you don't know when you're getting a kid. You don't if he's at class, you don't know if he's at lunch, you don't know where he is at that time. So when you leave that text, you don't know what he's involved with. I think kids feel like they have to get back right away when somebody texts, and I think it's interfering with things they should be doing. You don't want to overdo it, because you don't want to upset the kid or the family.

Darin Brumby

I have seen and been involved in acquisitions where that big question is left unanswered.

Rod Losier

It's huge. It's such a positive thing for everyone. For the kids involved especially, because they've been through some ups and downs.

Rebecca Robinson

I've had to put off a lot of other things I'm involved in.

Neil Patrick Harris

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

David Brady

The law is to make sure parents are involved in the decision.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Lee Williamson

This one was a little less nerve-wracking. I knew if I could get to 17-under, it should be enough.

Earl Holmes

We shot the gap. We knew they were going with a quarterback sneak.

Ryan Giggs

We didn't perform in the first half. They had the better of the first half. We knew we would improve, and that's what we did.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John C. Calhoun

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

Ken Roeder

We led 19-11 before Washburn (9-4) put on a five-point run to get back within three at the end of the first quarter. The tide turned at that point and Washburn could do no wrong.

Brian Dawkins

Did I do everything I needed to do?

John Wooden

Be at your best when your best is needed.

Bob Zeh

That was typical of our night. Whenever we needed a big shot, we couldn't get one.

Ruth Ozeki

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Jon Darbyshire

In the past, it was something they needed to address, but they didn't have to.

Gary Henderson

It was obvious that we needed to get him.

Phil Nuytten

It's very lightweight and quick to deploy . . . that's what's really needed there.

Jason Richardson

It was a desperation win. We really needed this win and we went out there and played like that.

Mike Bonin

They were there as long as they were needed to be there. There's no sense for them to be there if there's no requirement for the ships to be down south.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Andrew Sukawaty

people that want to use the phone a lot.

Paul Douglas

People that like snow, need to get out there and play in it.

Nancy Cole

People that I've talked to today, their question seems to be: Will he quit again?

Chris Squire

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

Jeremy London

People are used to seeing actors in LA.

Andrew Spence

People are turning up and the police turning them away.

Joe DeRupo

People are trying to look at satellite photos, and people are trying to get in there to look. Unfortunately it's not only impassable but dangerous. We're still waiting to hear.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Paul Stone

If I had to have a second daddy, it would be him.

Joey Harrington

I can see where this is going. Let's back off a second on taking shots down the field. When shots are available. Remember, this is still the same offense.

Dontez Sanders

I just wanted to see what was the problem. Because the first half, it wasn't that bad. The second half, we just didn't play as well as a group.

Bob Marinelli

After that second goal, we had to take some chances.

Stephanie Graham

It took us a while to get her timing. You could see the team was working it out, and the second time up they were a lot more confident.

J. K. Rowling

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Tom Lamb

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team,

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.