Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices...

Dick Gephardt

seems high to me, because once you get above the levels where the president was in his budget, you really are in the area where you're starting to raise premiums.

Jean Todt

Seeing the new car, with the new sponsor logos and, above all, the numbers 5 and 6, is a return for us at Ferrari to a distant past.

Gregory Asner

Selective logging negatively impacts many plants and animals and increases erosion and fires. Additionally, up to 25 percent more carbon dioxide is released to the atmosphere each year, above that from deforestation, from the decomposition of what the loggers leave behind.

John Coverdale

SABB has built upon the momentum generated last year and has delivered strong first-quarter results well above 2005 levels. Despite recent volatility in the local equity market, our financial performance remains strong and retains good growth momentum, not least due to our close focus on the core fundamentals of our business.

Daniel Gros

Russia has shown it's not above the temptation of using some bargaining power or blackmail. It shows that if there is a way to get some political-economic advantages from a temporary weakness of your partner, the Russians will use it.

Bhagavad Gita

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Brian Crowe

Romeo and Juliet. It wouldn't go above 25 miles an hour.

John Sacchi

Right now we're a meet above the .500 mark. The difference between a 7-6 and 10-3 record is one kid. Every meet we've won or lost has come down to at least one pivotal match. With our injuries and other problems, we're just not winning close matches.

H. Hart

They want a 6-8 and jump-out-of-the-gym forward. It would take an astute scout to look at the intangibles and his uniqueness as an athlete.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Bobby Martin

She's been my chief clerk for the past 17 and a half years. We've had a great relationship of working together and as for as I know, we've never had a cross word.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

David Atkinson

Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.

Vinton Cerf

It's Chief Internet Evangelist, which suggests I should go from three-piece suits to some sort of ecclesiastical robes.

Marty Kaplan

It's called the right-wing noise machine, and now you have one of the chief noise-makers being given the microphone and podium in the people's house.

Jan Mills

I want to make clear that the chief and I share the strong conviction that our police officers must set an example for the entire community, ... The hypocrisy of ?Do as I say, not as I do' is not acceptable.

Elliot Mincberg

It tremendously raises the stakes. Now he'll be in a position (as chief justice) to influence the direction of the court for the next 30 years.

Jane Taylor

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

Alan Horowitz

I've always been a confident person, and this just helped.

Bastien Ripoll

It was very very hard (but) it's great to win a race that worked perfectly. It was exactly what we expected. We were very confident during the warm up and we knew it was our chance.

Bill Simmons

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.

Richard LeVine

You have to have a feel for what's really going to work in the long run, what the issues are that may seem controversial in the short run, ... If you're pretty confident that you've thought it through, you'll go ahead. But if there's a lot of controversy and you actually listen to the opposition, sometimes you decide they're right.

Ali Dabagh

We were confident before, but now we are totally confident.

Jack Rio

I don't think there's any question that this team is going to go over 30 a lot. We feel confident about the way this unit is pulling together.

Eric Barber

He's more comfortable than last year. Last year he was thrown into the fire. This year he understands the position more. He's more confident and more confident about the people around him.

Stephanie Beacham

What I mean to say is that I'm old enough now and confident enough now not to be frightened of any of the possibilities life might offer.

Michael Perkins

We've done pretty well with it all year, and we're still confident with it.

Mark Kimmitt

I know that your reporter may have confirmed it to you. But that's what your correspondents have been doing for the last few days, repeating and confirming lies,

Dick Muir

There were some very pleasing performances from the new guys. Some confirmed they might have what it takes, others did not. That is what warm-up games are for. You only really know how good a guy is when you test him in a genuine match situation.

David Fischer

We know that when he was 14 years old, he was adjudicated as a delinquent. He was found guilty of molesting two children. I have confirmed that through several law enforcement sources, and I am confident.

Mulugeta Debalkew

There are many types of avian flu, so to determine what type it is and get our results confirmed we have to send the samples to Italy.

Billy Donovan

For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference.

Mike Hohensee

I don't like the fact that we are 0-1, but I think we found out we have a good football team today. They are the defending champs and a very good football team.

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

John Quincy Adams

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

J. C. Ryle

Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.

Winston Churchill

The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

Marcel Proust

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

Andy Borowitz

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Maria Montessori

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Marianne Moore

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

Tony Blair

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Simone de Beauvoir

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Thucydides

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Robert A. Heinlein

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Rigoberta Menchu

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Matthew McGrory

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

John Stuart Mill

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

O. Singh

I am still the man of the series, and you still remember it.

Mark Twain

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Stanley Asumnu

I faked my man and got around him. There was another man standing there but I just kind of went over him.

Bible Bible

If a man will not work, he shall not eat.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Ben Jonson

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Brian Cresta

And we see 50 to 80 percent walk out with a peace of mind with the drug benefit.

Charles Cooper

Are you sure in your mind you didn't do it?

Osama Laden

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Alan Hovhaness

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

Andre Gide

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Daniel McConchie

I don't think it's the most prudent thing to do at this time. It's really a long-shot type of situation." ()

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.