Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sammy Morris

When you're an athlete and can expose to people that you battle a lot of the same things that they go through, it helps them believe in themselves. You're talking about someone who is established as a very good player in this league who is able to relate that. Young people can see that he was brave enough to not only overcome it, but talk about it and show that he came out OK, that there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Socrates

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Hopkins, tonight, around the world and, I think, in person - one month shy of being 41 - put on a 12-round exhibition. I don't have to be ashamed of what happened tonight. Just to be competitive respectfully at this level, I believe, that y'all will respect me for my performance tonight.

Sebastian Bach

Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.

Christine Baldauf

We have nothing to be ashamed of. This year has been a roller coaster. It was a constant adjustment.

Diane Ninemire

We have nothing to be ashamed of. That was an incredible battle between two teams who didn't want to go home, and we gave it everything we had.

Freddy Shepherd

We have nothing to be ashamed of regarding his transfer -- we have great guys and they were doing everything they could to get him fit,

Jane Welsh Carlyle

It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

Jeffrey Schmitz

We were irresponsible. We're very ashamed of these activities. We're deeply sorry we have marred the image of the Greek community and marred the university image as well.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

Jim Hightower

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Marty Heires

These are long-term leases and these banks can stay in our stores for 15 years and in some cases even more. We're committed to community bankers and we're committed to what they bring to our stores and their customers. We're their allies.

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

Rory Stewart

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Jay McInerney

You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

Brad Dean

The signing of this bill is a huge victory for the residents of South Carolina, for millions of future visitors, and for our state's number one industry.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Blaise Pascal

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

John Mozeliak

It may seem like it, but it's not a strategy. Is there a risk to running that model year after year? Sure.

Toshizo Tanaka

The IXY model sold well without steep discounts,

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

John Stossel

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Ayn Rand

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Tom Leonard

There's something drastically wrong. I think they know it, but they're scared to do anything about it.

Skip Mills

We just told him to keep shooting. You're really not going to make shots if you're scared and you don't want to keep shooting the ball. We kind of joked around with him telling him he's never going to make a shot again.

Donald Trump

You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.

Ann Brashares

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Doug Liman

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Anthony Hopkins

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

Andy Warhol

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

Sylvester Stallone

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it.