Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

Donald Trump

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

Bill Bowerman

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Glen Flanagan

That would make it easier to scout, that's for sure.

Celso Amorim

That will make it easier for Brazilian firms to participate in infrastructure projects.

Daisuke Matsuzaka

That was something I've never done in my career. When I was getting ready to throw, I had the feeling something was about to go wrong. It wasn't a one-run game, so that made it easier for me to take.

Jay Marston

Val is doing very well. She got some experience last year as a junior. Now she's our go-to pitcher. She's making it easier on everyone.

Peter Roskam

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Darren Mathews

We need to have these kinds of games to prepare us for late in the season.

Tom Typrowicz

We could lose a million games and I wouldn't care. I want these young ladies to leave these games knowing what life is about and what it's going to take.

Brett Tomko

We can't let these opportunities slip away. Before we know it, we're going to be out of games. This next series is huge. If we can take three, then we've got a shot.

Tim Brasic

We can't let guys come in here and do what they're doing to us at home. Our last two home games have been just embarrassing.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Gin Wigmore

I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited me to do music because of the love and joy that I got from writing that song. Down the road, you get all of these opinions from people; just remember what got you started in the first place.

Morgan Stanley

The peak...is the key determinant of the timing of the prospective turn in the dollar.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Carl Sagan

Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

Bill Bryson

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

Tommy Amaker

That was a role reversal from last time. That was a key today.

Spencer Taylor

That was the key to the game. Somebody was going to start making some shots, so it was going to be us or them and fortunately for us, we got some together.

Sean Taylor

That was the key play of the game. That sort of put it away.

Paul Hatcher

That was a key stretch. When Greensville took that lead, I wondered how the kids would respond. We haven't trailed in many games, and especially on this stage. Everyone stepped up with Hosea on the bench.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.