Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samantha Lewthwaite

Jamal is accountable for his actions 100 percent and I condemn with all my heart what he has done, ... I will try to remember for my children's sake the Jamal I loved and raise them knowing their father was a man who truly loved them. But the day will come when I'll have to tell them what he did.

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Tom Daschle

It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.

John Shaw

I think I told you (two weeks ago) it would be handled internally. I would prefer not to discuss what actions have been taken. But like I said to you, he was reprimanded, and it is being handled internally.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Celso Amorim

Whatever the council decides on actions it wishes to take, they have to involve some kind of engagement of Iraq. You cannot put in place a system unless you talk to the people who have the system in place.

Edward Norton

I think it's pretty unequivocal, this character does not get off the hook for his actions on any level.

Pat Egan

I think we are confident, based on E-Board actions already taken and what has been done in follow through, that we will satisfy legislative concerns and we are headed in the right direction.

Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

Pat Allen

He said 'I believe in the Almighty and I believe the Almighty's gift to man is freedom.' He elaborated on Iraq.

O. Henry

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Fred Furth

I will prove the reason they did this was for the God Almighty dollar.

Bible Bible

The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.

Stephen Little

It's not about the money. That won't get you out of bed after five or 10 years. It's about serving a higher calling than the almighty dollar.

John Jewell

For it is the word of the living and almighty God, of the God of Hosts, which hath done whatsoever pleased him both in heaven and in earth.

Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

Matthias Claudius

We plough the fields and scatterThe good seed on the land,But it is fed and wateredBy God's almighty hand;He sends the snow in winter,The warmth to swell the grain,The breezes and the sunshineAnd soft refreshing rain.

William Wordsworth

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laudAnd magnify thy name, Almighty God!

Harry Reid

Katrina makes it clear this government has failed, ... We must find out why immediately to make sure the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina never happens again.

Rem Murray

It caused my head to turn totally to the left, and it was frozen there for quite some time,

Rob Spencer

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded. With that lie, he caused the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. He rejoiced in the death and destruction.

Brian Rust

We took it down. It was our machine, our node, and our network. Because it wasn't vetted with our security and network groups, it could have potentially caused harm to our users.

David Errington

It has been Coles that has caused its own lost momentum and that is particularly disappointing.

Cappie Pondexter

I think the 3-2 match-up caused a lot of problems - it's tough to go against. That's something we've got to get better at as a team.

Brad Gushue

I didn't get much in because she was crying, which caused me to cry. It was nice to hear her voice and she's pretty excited.

Alan Williamson

rise in inflationary pressures caused by higher energy prices.

George Miller

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Stephen Harper

I actually think the (U.S.) ambassador's intervention was inappropriate... I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election.

Doug Armstrong

He knows we like him. He's been here for a number of years, and I've tried to express to him that I've been one of his stronger supporters over that time. Nothing to me has changed. When the time comes and he wants to stay here, we'll talk to him.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Q-Tip

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Stan Williams

Guys don't have very many ways to express themselves. Facial hair is equated with masculinity, and men's fashion is very masculine right now. They also make younger guys look older.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Cecilia Munoz

We are expressing our hopes that the Senate will do something different.

Viktor Yushchenko

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Tonya David

Know from our heart that it's a forgiving heart. Forgiveness is everything. It's everything.

Tyler Perry

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Sarah Bernhardt

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

Reba McEntire

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Will Smith

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

William Blake

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Samuel Richardson

Men are less forgiving than women.

Saint Augustine

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Voltaire

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Neal Hersh

Kim is respectful of what the judge did and she's pleased with today. We're hopeful this will be the end of it.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Dana Quigley

I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hope I have the same impact on Tim as I did Paula.

Felipe Alou

He is the only pitcher I went (behind the cage) to see. I hope he didn't mind that.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Cokie Roberts

He's always hoped I would have one. I never have.

Dan Svirbly

His year didn't end the way we hoped it would. He got down here for the second time and won a match again, he just couldn't quite get to the podium.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Mike Ackerman

I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Samuel Johnson

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Richard John Neuhaus

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Woody Allen

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

William Faulkner

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Richard M. Nixon

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Richard Rohr

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

Paloma Faith

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Kenny Smith

Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.

Pope John Paul II

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

Pope John Paul II

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Travie McCoy

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

William Jennings Bryan

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Townes Van Zandt

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

Sarah Dessen

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

Sarah Dessen

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

William Faulkner

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.