Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rich

This is contrary to everything that the Marine Corps stands for,

Merle Haggard

That I'm a contrary old son of a bitch, I guess,

Isabella Bird

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.

Julian Fellowes

I can be as contrary as I choose.

Isaac Newton

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is. I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Ralph Lauren

All the kinds of things ... contrary to what the look is, ... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Jeff Kelly

We look at it as a big win. It's slightly less than what we would normally enjoy, but nowhere near what it could have been in the (competitive-bidding process).

Billy Donovan

He was teaching us that sometimes less is more. Less of myself was more that day.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Jim Panyard

He's already promised to do it. If he's a man of his word, he'll do it.

Harry Redknapp

He's got one of the loveliest touches I've seen in a big man

Joyce Brown

He's just plain old Ronnie. But man, he sure can run.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Erica Mann Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

William Bennett

an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.

Viktor Yushchenko

There won't even be talk of reconsidering the decision, ... first of all, morally and politically.

John LaChance

He thought what he was doing was morally right?

Stephan Sirard

There are questions morally and ethically, but legally, they can't stop us.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Patrick O'Brian

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Luciano Pavarotti

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Winston Churchill

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

Ray Burrows

I'm bored, even though I've got a lot to do, ... I'm tired. I'm frustrated.