Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salim Khan

Of course we would aid them, ... But there are soldiers here, there are rules. We can have no contact with them. We know only what we can see.

Baruch Spinoza

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

John Osborn

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Lindsey Davies

Next week we will start looking in earnest at how to resettle people. Giving them food aid is just the start of a much bigger part of this emergency campaign.

Ray Grasshoff

New programs, like Texas Grant, which gives aid to students who are in need and have completed college preparatory work in high school, are being designed to help alleviate financial burdens of college students.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Mark Regev

If money to the budget of the PA is cut off, it's incumbent on all of us to make a maximum effort to beef up direct humanitarian aid to alleviate hardship.

Keith Barnes

The earlier you apply, the earlier you'll know what kind of aid you're going to get relative to what your bill is going to be. Students don't apply for scholarships like they should.

Andrew Hudson

This is more of a chance for parents to get more involved in the process than the students. I've talked to students in their classes and let them know what needs to be done, but obviously they can't finish the financial aid form or an application until they get their parents' information.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Christopher Cox

The speaker of the House is just that -- the speaker of the House, ... It is the people's house. It is the business of all of America that is at stake.

Jay London

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

Benjamin Franklin

A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mack Strong

It was very surreal. I came home one day and she said, 'You're moving.' I said, 'No, we're not moving.' Then about a day later I call a call from a coach and he said, 'Pack your bags.' That was a weird time in our history.

Juliette Lewis

It was traumatic and lovely. My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Juliette Lewis

It was traumatic and lovely, ... My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

John Owen

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Maya Angelou

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Adrian Leppard

I am very encouraged by the response from members of the public.

Greg Power

But we're willing to try this because we want to do everything we can to encourage fishing.

Joe Franco

I encourage any student who has ever complained or been dissatisfied with this school to come out and run for one of these positions. The Student Government Association is here to better the lives of the students to this University, and I would like to see as many people try to be in this organization as possible.

Eric Boyle

Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.

Rachel Steer

Oh my goodness! I just noticed they said she was sick, and I saw her last night ? and she didn't look like she was getting sick.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Michael Hegarty

Tennessee is a truly great and competitive opponent. I can tell by the way we played them today that we are really starting to come along.

Reggie Lewis

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

Bill Bowles

Ross made a great play and kept them out of there.

Ryan Goodman

Ryan did a great job defensively the whole weekend, and scored just enough to win. It was a masterful performance.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Andy Andrews

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

Andrea Bocelli

I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.

Allen West

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Mahatma Gandhi

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Lynn Schusterman

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Abraham Lincoln

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

Douglas MacArthur

For those to whom much is given, much is required. It is not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. There is no substitute for victory.

Amy Carmichael

O Love of God, do this for me: Maintain a constant victory.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Karel Bruckner

Nothing but victory would've worked for us, and we got it.

Fernando Pessoa

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Ken Salazar

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Neal A. Maxwell

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

Bruce Sterling

There's no victory-condition for being human.