Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Chris Bell

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

Ariel Sharon

We have already paid an international price for the delay in these negotiations,

George Breed

With the tournament sold out, great weather and a great field, it's not surprising that were experiencing some delay.

Alan Paller

Microsoft's delay is inexcusable. There's no excuse other than incompetence and negligence.

Robert Adams

While the delay has been aggravating, it's great to get the site that we have wanted since the beginning.

William Shakespeare

By-and-by is easily said.

Jake Sanches

We put hard work into this. Given the situation, we'll see if they can pick up the tab. Due to the delay in publication, we feel it's fair.

Jim Smith

We have some people who chronically delay until the last minute. Some just don't want to think about it. Some are too busy, putting it off until they have to do it.

John Conley

We know it's a dynamic situation, but it's totally premature to talk about delays or postponement. Runners need to be prepared and dress for the weather.

David Ireland

I welcome any kind of investigation (but) I didn't initiate it,

Paul Johnston

If we start seeing a lot of egg-laying, we'll initiate the pulse whether or not we have the right temperature.

Geoff Peters

You've got to stay level-headed and let everything develop. But at the same time you've kind of got to go after it. You've got to be the ones to initiate it.

Gary Sheffield

What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Jeff Nettles

I thought I had seen everything. Now I've officially seen everything.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Eric Christensen

We're officially abnormally dry, but we're not in a drought.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Pat Coyle

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Chauncey Billups

We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.

Charles Gittins

He did the procedures that are required to do a proper periscope search. Unfortunately, he didn't see the target.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Larry Parker

Yes, I think some procedures can be tightened up. Improvements can be made.

George F. Kennan

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Marianne Moore

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Sigmar Polke

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Bob Goin

no such request formally made so I don't know where that is.

Yao Ming

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

Don Howard

We have a long way to go and a very short time to get the work done.

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Stephen Jones

We're not short on supply -- we're potentially short if something were to happen.

Frederick Burke

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Thomas Ford

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.