Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Brian Johnston

My role will be largely a support to him in his capacity, ... He's going to be expecting me to provide some guidance for him in terms of our paper-making activities in all the mills.

Dave Richards

It's a chance to show our recreational activities in winter because a lot of people stay around home.

Margaret Craft

When you have meetings on a Monday, it does encroach on long weekends. Especially if you have weekend activities planned.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

George Bernard Shaw

Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':

Donald Rumsfeld

Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,

Granth Sahib

Between the Lord's devotees and the people of the world, there can never be any true alliance. The Creator Himself is infallible. He cannot be fooled; no one can fool Him. He blends His devotees with Himself; they practice Truth, and only Truth.

Mary Shelley

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

Kevin Cory

Every time Elena steps onto the court, she expects to win. That's something you just cannot teach.

Adora Svitak

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

Alan Ball

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

Bennett Miller

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

Tzipi Livni

The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.

Ken Peterson

And we'll do more, ... once it's clear from our colleagues what their needs are.

Rudyard Kipling

An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.

quran quran

And when Ibrahim said to his father and his people: Surely I am clear of what you worship, / Save Him Who created me, for surely He will guide me.

Brent Erickson

DuPont is a big ship, and it doesn't turn quickly, but it is clear that it is turning in the direction of industrial biotech.

Joan Baez

Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,

Steve Fulton

Each tunnel in the sky must react to other tunnels in the same way as it does to keep clear of terrain.

Andris Piebalgs

Europe needs a clear and more collective policy on the security of our energy supply. Now, powers reside at the national level and we need a Europe-wide approach.

Adam Arkin

ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that.

Donald Trump

We buy products for our military and they come in at costs that are so far above what they were supposed to be, because we don't have people that know what they're doing.

Adam Schiff

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.

Abraham Lincoln

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

Abraham Lincoln

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

Ally Carter

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Ann Druyan

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

Ann Coulter

Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?

Ann Coulter

Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Seth Godin

Keep starting until you finish.

Bobby Labonte

If we start off and we're not in the top 10, we're going to be there before long,

Jack Rio

If Byron doesn't have any setbacks, he's our starting quarterback.

Jesse LoBue

If I do, I'll start yelling at the refs.

Scott Gomez

If he's trying to start something, it's the wrong team.

David Thornton

I'd start with chartreuse and then I'd get chartreuse or something that is a combination of chartreuse and something else. Chartreuse always works.

Shaikh Ahmed

I am now going to start everything new.

Buck Showalter

He's not where he was at the start of the season, but who is?

Assemblywoman Leslie

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Geary Claxton

I'm not even sure why I got that one.

Jacob Micflikier

I?m not even sure we tested him as much as we would have wanted to.

Jim Danneskiold

I'm not even sure we could read these disks now, the technology is so old.

Antonin Scalia

I'm not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth,

Jay Bennish

I'm not even sure I'm taking a position.

Damian Woetzel

I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.

Billy Crystal

I'm sure you'll see more (celebrities) if we make the playoffs.

Shane Warne

I'm not sure I can go that long. We'll wait and see.