Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Theo Van Gogh

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Philip Seng

We hope we're wrong, but that's what we're looking at.

Billy Fontenot

We hope to open come the end of March.

Mary Duggan

We hope to get all the Lines we can to muster up.

Don Yeomans

We hope to get 15 centimeters resolution. That's unprecedented resolution.

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Miley Cyrus

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her."

Carol Alt

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

Brittany Snow

My mom did a really good job teaching me about sunscreen. She's savvy when it comes to all things moisturizing and wrinkle-preventing. Even early on as a kid, I thought to myself, Why do I need to do this? I don't have wrinkles. I'm a child. But my mom was in the preventative mind-set and that helped me.

David Ortiz

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

Blake Lively

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.

Latoya Wily

Well, I cried. This is the first time that my mom and sister have seen me play here, and this is the first time they've been to Mississippi.

Creed Bratton

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

Dwight L. Moody

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Richard Nugent

He was Daystar. That was a proud day for Frank.

Todd Davidson

He was very proud. We were all very proud of him.

Chrissey Cruz

I was so proud of her. She really stepped up.

Marco Sullivan

She skied like a rock star. I'm proud she represented Squaw like that.

Martin Bain

I feel very proud . . . this is a day I'll remember for a long time,

Hillary Clinton

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

Garth Brooks

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Peter Boulware

I tell you, to get out there on my first play and get the quarterback, I was awfully excited. I am proud to be here. I feel pretty good, but I still feel a little rusty.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.