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.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

John Alexander

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

Ron Cooper

The movie shows how much of his life Capote put into 'In Cold Blood' and the toll it took on him. He made it a literary phenomenon and it was a hard act to follow. No matter what he did, he could never top it.

Will Rogers

The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself

Wu Zhiguo

The move is clearly aimed at protecting small investors. If directors fail to convene a shareholders' meeting when necessary, investors can act on their interests and help make corporate issues transparent.

Sathya Baba

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

Martin O'Malley

The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.

Tim Bishop

After over three decades of implementation the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has recovered 10 of roughly 1300 listed species nationwide, ... The current law is just not working. TESRA is an innovative approach with bipartisan support that will turn the conflict under ESA into cooperation and refocus the law on actually recovering species. We can and must do better.

Dan Bell

The most respectable wide receiver in the National football league is Terrell Owens. You dont see this kind disgusting act from him.

Donald Trump

We'll spend it alone together; we won't have people around. That's the best. I feel really comfortable in a bathrobe.

Danielle Sautter

I have never even heard of something that extreme in Grand Island, let alone right next door to my own house.

James Thomson

I find no hint throughout the Universe/ Of good or ill, of blessing or of curse/ I find alone Necessity Supreme.

Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.

Richard Greville

If in my heart all saints else be defaced, / Honour the shrine where you alone are placed.

Simon Mawer

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

James Levine

I find it always sad when there's something that means a lot to me in music and there are people who can't get the exposure to it ever to understand it, let alone love it.

Sylvester Croom

If (Burks) plays up to his abilities, that alone is going to make us better in the passing game. In this offense, if you don't have receivers, you're not going to beat anyone.

Chris DiMarco

I did it for 13 other guys counting (Jeff) Sluman and Mr. Nicklaus -- let alone the whole country. It's unbelievable. We needed this Cup, we needed it. We really did. When people get down on us and say we don't care, I can tell you one thing, we care.

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner.

Hugh Jackman

I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Marvin Kalb

I could name names, and then you could tell me if I'm wrong, ... Are you talking about someone like Senator Frist?

Vance Havner

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

Robert E. Lee

The devil's name is dullness.

Paul Vachon

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Danielle Tauro

I haven't run in any open races this year so it should be exciting.

Bill Herring

The door's open to doing some cooperative work there.

Lixion Avila

It should stay out in the open Atlantic.

Joe Pollack

I want to get back to the Buick Open and not have 'DAL' after my name,

Jerry Harmon

When the weather warms up, we'll open the patio.

Mary Hart

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

Vic Kintz

They really shut him down and didn't let him have an open shot.

Ertharin Cousin

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.