Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Gerhard Richter

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Jim Hawkins

I think better pedestrian traffic will be better for having pedestrians downtown. And, the long range plan calls for that. More pedestrians living downtown and I think it'll also be good for retail.

Keith Lucky

I don't know much about them. I've made a few phone calls and not had much luck. But we have to worry about us. If we take care of ourselves, that is all that matters.

Jim Calhoun

I can feel the emotions start to build, ... I've had conversations with my first recruit at Northeastern, with eight kids from my Dedham High School team that won 21 straight games, a lot of phone calls from my former players ... it's an exciting time for me.

Jay Carson

He takes calls from world leaders every day on a variety of topics.

Chan Gailey

He's a young player who had not played center; we moved him to center when he got here. He's got excellent toughness and good strength. He is lost right now, learning how to play the position. Centers have to make all the calls and are in charge of a lot, so he's got to learn that and it's going to take some time. He's made very good progress, but he's got a long way to go.

Mike Trgovac

He doesn't get into the calls that I make. Sometimes he'll talk about certain situations ... but he doesn't mess with you much on game day. Sometimes, he will come up to you and say stuff. A lot of times I've already seen it, but he's making sure that I've seen it. It's the job of a head coach to do that. He doesn't leave any stone unturned.

Jason Collins

He got fined $15,000? Well, maybe we need to get fined, too, because there were some calls tonight that didn't go our way.

H. Hunt

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the public will at the same time have the parallel, but separate opportunity to vote to complete the original project design with the rolling roof.

Bible Bible

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? / I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

David Green

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.

Jeanie Mamo

We are fully committed to her confirmation and look forward to her confirmation.

Bruce Jaffe

Together, Microsoft and NBC Universal have grown MSNBC.com to the number one news site. We are totally committed to taking MSNBC.com to even higher levels of success through our unparalleled marriage of technological innovation and news content.

Bruce Jaffe

Together, Microsoft and NBC Universal have grown MSNBC.com to the No. 1 news site. We are totally committed to taking MSNBC.com to even higher levels of success through our unparalleled marriage of technological innovation and news content.

Doug Meacham

To come away with a road win in a game in which we committed 24 turnovers and shot poorly from the free throw line is huge for us.

Nancy Wilson

We have to be committed by Feb. 1, in order to participate in the federal reimbursement.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We make no allegation that the vice president committed any criminal act.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. You just have to roll with the punches, there are a lot of things people don't like. You've just got to play it better, put your hands down (on the blocker) and try not to get cut.

Mike Rucker

In the framework of their schemes and the way the rules are, it's legal. I just kind of got caught. I'll roll with it.

John Wade

In a nutshell, the framework plan will look at Wyoming's water shortages from a statewide perspective, water use trends, and a summary of where we are.

Scott Woodgate

All of these products will inherit WWF, like they do the .Net Framework today.

Vladimir Putin

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Gene Sperling

The governor laid out a framework for him and the legislative leadership to work on, ... The issue is now for them to work out the proposal.

Herbie Hancock

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

Bob Latta

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

Akhmed Zakayev

This was a legitimate military operation which took place in the framework of the Caucasus front.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

Ruhollah Khomeini

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.

Khaled Hosseini

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Muhammad

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

Muhammad

The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be asked, "Son of Adam, did you ever face any misery? Did you ever experience any hardship?" So he will say, "No, by God, O Lord! I never faced any misery, and I never experienced any hardship."

Muhammad

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

Muhammad

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Jim Palmer

He was such an important part of my career, and a large part of our success in the 1960s.

Bill Sandusky

I have done a number of large paintings, but nothing this large and nothing this time consuming.

Ryan Holmes

I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.

Robert Reich

He is a little man, slightly stooped, balding, large nose, wide lips, wry smile. He wears thick glasses, ... Locked in the Cabinet.

Miguel de Icaza

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Stephen LaDue

You will see a moderation in some markets.

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Sean Astin

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Horace Porter

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

John Brady

They patted the pocket, ... The thing was they were all together in the room. Once they dispersed, it would have been gone. ... This is standard operating procedure.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Atul Gawande

My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

John Uecker

I didn't think he was going to survive all of this, ... I really didn't think he was going to get out of the operating room.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Tony Kushner

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

Maisie Williams

I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.

Sundar Pichai

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

Dick Costolo

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Martin Seligman

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Peter Drucker

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Mark Twain

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Mason Cooley

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Lulu

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Larry Brown

He doesn't know any plays. Not that we ran any the first half.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Sean Kelly

I just remember thinking, 'I don't know what I'm doing so open,' so I just ran in and scored.

Matt White

I kind of ran into trouble in the third inning,

Carlos Arroyo

I never ran into somebody that big. I'll be all right.

Brad Johnson

I'm very comfortable with the offense. I ran a version of it in Tampa.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Sarah Hall

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Sarah Dessen

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?