Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Jeremy Hardy

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Lord Chesterfield

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Leos Carax

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Herbert A. Simon

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Floyd Abrams

While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him,

Gerry McGhee

When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.

Caron Butler

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is going to come out and have a big game, so it's on us. We didn't play well in the first game.

Robert Wagner

When we arrived at the scene, there were four people still in the 2003 Ford Expedition,

Ronnie Milsap

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive someday.

Rick Terres

We're still holding our own. But we still need the cavalry to arrive with some money.

Dr. Etienne

We are all concerned about the potential impact of H5N1 should it arrive in our region. We are all keenly aware of the need to coordinate our efforts to ensure they are as effective as possible.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

Christy Fusco

We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Kate Mulgrew

The perfect combination of everything that not only delights, but exalts me is my husband. I could not ask for a better man.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Sadhu Johnston

For a city, it really helps to solve a number of our problems.

Paul Nelson

It really helps to find out what kind of things you will be running into.

Liz Harrison

It really helps people get through the turbulence.

Jeff Butts

It's all right. It helps rejuvenate you. But at the same time, you want to keep working on things.

Scott Roesch

This Land Is Your Land. It helps if a film is animated, musical and political in nature. There's a piece that had all three.

Lamar Butler

They play so well together. It's like they know each other like the back of their hand. It helps us on the court. They just shut down the other team's big men. They've been doing it all season long.

Mario Bandiera

They're in the monochromatic tones of the outfits, and that helps elongate the strong, narrow line of the silhouette.

Richard Wright

They record that which helps them and not that which doesn't.

Alejo Rodriguez

It's a tribute to (White Plains) and their defense. But (the game) also helps us get more experience.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Chris Copeland

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Bob Kane

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Coco Chanel

The right ingredients can create a legend.

Bobby Darin

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

Brenda Jones

We like to have a mix of the legends and the younger acts.

Albert Einstein

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Dan Brown

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Richard Matheson

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Thomas Jefferson

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Tim Lockwood

It's their money. It comes from local revenues. They can do what they want with it. It's part of the local-control issue.

Jean Turner

There will be a separate local option levy budget, separately tracked.

Bob Montgomery

It's about as local as you can get.

Jeff Sessions

Progress will require a united federal, state and local effort.

Steve Hamilton

People are still in shock, I guess, or just dazed at what happened. It's tough on people here because there aren't that many local places where people can find work.

Dave Keller

People at local shows like the hard-core sound and screaming.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Timothy Tyson

The movement was really local in Rocky Mount.

Arthur Phillips

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Lori Frantz

We're in a location where we can do those kind of things.

Noah Lowry

It's only a matter of time when the location will come. That's what I'm shooting for.

Gregg Robinson

It (Orangeburg County) is a location they (Commerce) know they can win.

John Hughs

They're not so jaded; they haven't done it 20 times before. When you go on location in Chicago, even the onlookers are thrilled.

Buddy Bell

It wasn't one of his better starts. The location wasn't as good, but (the Yankees) have a tough lineup.

Diana Miller

It's a combination of the location and having the right stores.

Andrew Barker

Telecoms support for this kind of operation was traditionally a problem. In the new world, people just take their phone to the new location and plug it in.

Lucy Lawless

I've seen photos of locations where we've shot, and there's total, total devastation.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Susan Fletcher

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Stephen King

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.