Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Ronald Reagan

If you think you can - you can!

Charles Grassley

The FBI would have preferred to get rid of the messenger

Ed Rendell

then the FBI owes that explanation not only to the mayor, but to the people of Philadelphia.

Ronald Kessler

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

Hillary Clinton

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

Vincent Schiraldi

The American public is not going to want the FBI profiling their kids.

Alvin Sykes

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Erik Christiansen

We have been in touch with Homeland Security and the FBI about this issue.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Brian Dake

He means more to me than I think he will ever know.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Les Brown

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ray Takeyh

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Keith Henderson

Evidence-wise, we're going to present two different cases,

Warren Harding

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Darrell Royal

Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

Cynthia Lennon

There was no word from him between 1971 and 1974,

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.