Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Scott Borg

The Russians aren't waiting for standards. They have decided to move forward. We have declined to participate (in the drilling). We don't feel it's ready.

Joe Veltri

This is similar to when we decided to get into the pickup truck segment.

Mary Adams

This is something we knew was going to be ultimately decided by the Law Court. We're prepared to do that.

Bryan Davis

This is our third league game decided on penalty kicks or controversial calls. But we have to take some responsibility.

Shanna Carpenter

The whole entire Office of Student Life and UPB decided on the theme. We wanted something catchy.

Gerry Adams

The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace process? No, I don't. I don't. And if I did, I would be very very perturbed,

Donald Booth

The United States wants this desire to be realized and has decided to dedicate even more resources to ensure that Tuesday's (run-off) elections will be free and fair,

Tim Ries

This could have been a very expensive mantelpiece for my shelf, ... But I realized that if I couldn't sell this, I shouldn't even be in the business. Instead of investing the money I earn with the Stones in the stock market, I decided to have faith, leap in and invest in myself.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Maria Bamford

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

Sarah Brightman

I'm an interpreter of music.

Rick Parker

We don't have to interpret what it looks like. This is what it is.

Colin Egglesfield

I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'

Alex Davis

Big River. Trent Anthony invited me to Young Life in my eighth-grade year, and I have been involved ever since.

Cindy Stein

Honestly, I don't know how we couldn't be in. But at the same time we don't have that invite yet, so we're trying to get the automatic.

Fred Funk

I'm still in shock that I was invited to be in this thing,

Bill Ross

We'll turn the tables. It'll be their place to invite other people in.

Olin Browne

I'm thrilled to be here. I would like to play well enough to be invited back. And there's only one way to get back.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

John Lackey

Nolensville has been invited to the party, and they didn't show up to the dance.

Bryan Greenberg

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

Robert Burns

He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / With adieu for evermore, / My dear,/ Adieu for evermore.

Penny Monahan

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Oliver Goldsmith

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Thomas Moore

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Lao Tzu

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Donald Trump

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Alfred Rosenberg

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Princeton Lyman

What it has not been able to do, really, has been to stop the movement of people and weapons down the coast.

Dorothy Height

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Donnie Yen

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

Deepak Chopra

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Barbara Jordan

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.