Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. Herbert

I sort of fell in with the wrong crowd. Things started getting twisted, and instead of facing my drug problem, I made excuses and justified getting away with it because I was maintaining a job and family.

Hebbel

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses

Jarome Iginla

We'll try to have the same mindset for Game 2 as we did Game 1. Now hopefully all the excuses are gone and we can keep going.

Kobe Bryant

We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night.

Tino Martinez

It's the greatest feeling in the world. Those teams we had in the late '90s and won the World Series, they just loved our team for the way we went about our business, the way we worked hard. We weren't real flashy stars. We didn't make excuses when things weren't going our way.

Rhoberta PhD

Excuses are seldom truthful, often handy, and rarely productive. Dont make excuses: make things happen!

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Edward Abbey

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

William Shakespeare

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

Sylvia Earle

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have a preferred outcome in any particular case.

Edmund Spenser

Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.

Tim Fleming

As the judge pointed out, loathsome and inexplicable for various reasons.

David Bloom

You judge things by comparables. They are comparable.

Russian Proverbs

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Daniel Moore

There's no reason that I can't. No judge has issued any kind of injunction that prevents me from doing that, and that's what this whole lawsuit is about.

Jan LaRue

The president got it right this time. We only wish he had done this on October 3rd. This judge has always been at the top of our list for the Supreme Court.

Jeanine Pirro

Well look, I've been a prosecutor, a judge and the DA for 30 years. This is my life. This is who I am.

Edward Kennedy

You do agree, don't you, Judge Roberts, that the right to vote is a fundamental constitutional right?

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Aristotle

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Andrew Solomon

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Anna Chlumsky

I was an international studies major.

Thomas Browne

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Robert A. Heinlein

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

Stella Adler

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Sherilyn Fenn

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

Theodore Bikel

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Margaret J. Wheatley

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

Johnny Cash

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Heather Dougherty

If someone wants to play catch-up fast, that's the way to go.

Ivan Rodriguez

He's the manager. If he wants me to DH, I'll DH.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Tim Howard

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dan Hampton

Who wants to play in the band? I wanted to play football.

Chris Pine

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.