Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Jim Morrison

He just took over in overtime. He willed them to the win. I can't be disappointed with our effort, we are getting better. At the beginning of the season we were losing games by 50 points and now we're are competing with one of the best teams in the state.

John Snow

I think it's clearly beginning to show signs of a strong recovery, and a recovery that's accelerating, ... Late Edition.

Fran Cohen

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.

Anita Allen

I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,

Dwayne Curtis

I don't know much about him. I'm just interested in finding out about him period. Just what kind of guy he is and what he expects out of his players and what he likes to do on the court.

Eddie Olczyk

I just know he had a stomach virus or flu symptoms last week and sometimes those things stick with you. And when you try to work through them and play at the level that he expects to play at, sometimes you don't let yourself get back (to being) completely healthy.

Sophia Amoruso

You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Naomi Fink

The market expects the Fed to extend rate hikes.

Arthur Henderson

The market expects someone else to come in with a better bid.

Jeffrey Gitomer

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Dave Joppie

This franchise expects to win. They figured it out through trial-and-error, which is what it's about. You go through the list, and every player on this team improved at something.

Johnny Damon

This is what the world expects this offense to do.

Kevin Sinclair

There is this big, powerful bird, looking at you as if it expects you to kill it, but it doesn't have the strength to even try to get away. It laid its neck out on the ground and opened its beak, but it couldn't make a sound.

Greg Ward

I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is the one to train the deputies.

Doug Summers

I think it's part of the mayor's (Kevin Burns) push for Geneva to get a lot of restaurants in Geneva.

Kelvin Philpot

Geneva was ready and hungry for us. They just jumped on top of us real quick.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.

James Meade

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

Dr. Farrar

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

Jana Killen

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Jerry Brookings

He showed me how to lead a band, which was something I had always wanted to do.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.

Walton Goggins

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

W. Somerset Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Mallory Ortberg

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

Scott Olson

They will turn the tables if they know someone is after them.

Julia Sawalha

I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.

Larry Page

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

Shantanu Narayen

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The bilateral talks are interlinked with the multilateral process.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Liu Jianchao

The timetable for resuming the talks is unpredictable.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.