Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Jonathan Jackson

I wouldn't say it's fallen off any. We still have some great players on the field.

Fred Byrd

He was a good, all-around American boy. And he's a fallen hero.

Troy Peter

We've found a way to persevere all year even when we've fallen behind. We've come back after trailing by a lot quite a few times. That seems to be our style.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Kurt Badenhausen

He had a good one-year or two-year run and has fallen off from that level.

Ruth Ozeki

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

Robert Jordan

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Robert Parker

Parts of them have fallen and the rest of them have the potential to fall as well,

Marcelo Borges

Investors were positioning themselves in shares that had fallen too much.

George Baker

I wouldn't say it's futile -- the opportunity is there. It's worthwhile to keep fighting to save the resources we have there.

Jens Orback

I think it is very problematic and unfortunate that people who have been in Sweden for so long make proposals such as this that are so opposed to our intentions, when we are fighting for women's rights and the right to divorce.

Joe Vitt

He's a fighter. He's fighting right now for his life, and he's not going to give up. He's going to go down kicking. Our thoughts and prayers are with him right now.

Joe Vitt

He's a great supporter of our players, the organization - really a good guy. He's a fighter. He's fighting for his life. Our thoughts and prayers are with him right now.

Vince Young

He's been through a lot. Just to see him keep fighting ... I'm proud of him, proud of all the hard work he's done to get to this point.

Eric Price

He's healthy. He's probably a lot healthier now than he was a year ago at this time. He was fighting (the groin injury) most of the season last year. It got to be 100 percent during the spring, but it's been off-and-on since. Now he's putting a string together of good days. I don't want to jinx him, but he's doing a great job.

Dana Altman

I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.

Mike Morris

It is hard. A lot of guys are fighting for the same spots and it might be from the same teams, so it is kind of hard.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is much work to be done, ... We've got to rebuild our infrastructure. We need more schools. We need more firefighters, more teachers. ... Californians are sick and tired of all the fighting and all those negative TV ads.

Gerrit Smith

The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.

Gina Torres

I lose out. It's a part of being an Honors student.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Nick Greenwell

Kids are naturally going to react to that when it happens. You tend to want to pull up short and shoot 10-footers instead of 2-footers.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Frances McDormand

Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Kurtis Foster

I wouldn't say deflating, but I think if you watched the way we played the last minute out there, you would see how much we wanted to win this one.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Christian Fauria

Just look at the tape from last week. That's all the motivation we need.

Jamal Lewis

Just watching them on film from last week, they looked like a totally different defense.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Will Grace

JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?

Michael Metz

I think it is going to last into 1999,

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Marc Guggenheim

We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series.

Juanna Graham

He was laying around a lot. He didn't want to play, he didn't want to eat. He was throwing up.

Dick Cheney

I ran over to him. He was laying there on his back, obviously, bleeding. You could see where the shot struck him.

Dan Malloy

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

Cindy Sheehan

I'll be laying down and not getting up. When they let me out, I'll do the same thing if I get arrested.

James Rosenquist

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

F. A. Hayek

I'm sorry, but I need to be laying down. I feel terrible.

Ted Astolfi

We're laying it out today to say this is where we want to get to.

Ginny Martino

Everyone is contributing on this team. No one is laying back. They are all taking charge. There are no selfish players.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Phil Martelli

I think it's going to be really interesting because I think some of the teams that are in the middle of the pack are probably better than some of the teams that will get a bye.

Lynn Kimbrough

It could be something criminal. We're in the middle of the investigation.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Russ Diamond

We're in the middle of vetting potential candidates.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Todd Wilkinson

We're in the middle of it. We're rolling now. There won't be any let up.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

John Tortorella

It all starts with our desperation level. We're playing with desperation.

John Muckler

He wanted a little attention, he wasn't getting any with Dom around, not playing any games.

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't get playing tonight. It's as simple as that.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard M. Nixon

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Richard M. Nixon

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

Mary Matalin

He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Charles Schumer

I think what the president is trying to do here is thread the needle.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Rob Woodall

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

William Whipple

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Richard Powers

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Samuel Johnson

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Vladimir Lenin

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Tony Wilson

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Sarah Palin

Hope is not a strategy,

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Richard Greenfield

If there's a strategy there, I don't see it yet.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Bob Defillippo

It's part of our strategy to diversify distribution.

Nicholas Negroponte

Scale will get you strategy.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Robert Reich

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Juvenal

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Richard P. Feynman

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Ursula K. Le Guin

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Robin Skelton

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.