Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Gene Siskel

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Billy Graham

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Clive Thompson

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Neymar

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I'm just an easy and happy guy.

Regina Brett

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

Noah Feldman

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

Nikki Reed

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Xun Zi

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Xun Zi

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

Isabel Sanford

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Chuck Palahniuk

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Billy Graham

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Jeff Hawkins

The Pilot was born in desperation. When all your other options are closed, you might as well try to do the right thing.

Ramon Magsaysay

The PIATCO contract was not entered into by the administration, it was in fact nullified by it. The North Rail, and other government projects and charges of diversion allegations of public funds for campaign activities, are also not borne out by facts.

Bee Wilson

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

Denis Villeneuve

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Bill Bruford

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Mike Ferguson

We were hearing that it was short-squeezes and index buying.

Michael Garcia

You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.

Harry Reid

I thought it'd all work out, and we'd have a pleasant hearing and conservatives would give each other high fives,

Casey Hoeft

Just hearing all the parts come together just making one sound, sounds beautiful.

Eric Witkoski

I'm so tired of hearing we're going to have all this stuff, and nothing happens.

Estelle

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Pat Robertson

I'm hearing from the Lord that it's going to be like a blow-out election.

Shah Zaman

We are innocent but do not know as to why were we targeted.

Laura Epley

I think possibly my things and some other innocent victims things are there too.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Bruce Helford

Nobody is as innocent as they used to be,

Jeffrey Lichtman

Having met with Mr. Heath, I feel strongly that he's been treated unfairly by American authorities and is innocent of all the charges.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Robert Ross

We live in a system where people are innocent until proven guilty.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Mariella Frostrup

Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.

Emma Biel

I worked very hard. Just look at my hands. I'm proof that it isn't work that kills you.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?

Robert Keats

Where's the proof here? I have no facts, just allegations.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Adam Ereli

The proof will be in the pudding. Let's see what happens.

Jim Sluzewski

The proof will be in the integration of the transition.

Carrie Vaughn

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

Carrie Brownstein

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Bill Hicks

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Robert Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Kim Smith

It disrupts everything. Work, babysitters, (we're) just tired of it.

Jim Norton

We got tired of hauling it all over,

Bernie Bickerstaff

We got tired and we started to make mistakes. And we just didn't make shots.

Arab Proverb

On the day of victory no one is tired

Mariano Zabaleta

I was still tired from yesterday's match. But I am through and that counts.