Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

John Hickenlooper

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

Bob Fredericks

The temptation employers are going to be confronted with is to look at this as a way to reduce expenses.

Ken Starr

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Kara Walker

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Kevin James

We spoke with him and none of us thought those were his ideas of Sept. 11, ... He is entitled to his views, but it would not be appropriate for him to be a chaplain for the FDNY.

Mark Everson

We want people to get the refunds they're entitled to. Taxpayers can't get a refund if they don't file a return.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

Jacques Chirac

unjust for those who are not entitled to them.

Ron Davis

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

Elaine Chao

This is a major victory for the workers, who will now get paid what they are entitled to and be compensated for health and safety precautions at their plants, ... I am pleased that Perdue has stepped forward to do the right thing.

Gail Winawer

They're small deductions, but you're entitled to them so you might as well take them.

Neal Pilson

They're a very unique property. The Masters understands that the revenue potential is limited by reasons of their decisions, and they've never negotiated the rights fees they might otherwise be entitled to.

Neal Pilson

They're a very unique property, ... The Masters understands that the revenue potential is limited by reasons of their decisions, and they've never negotiated the rights fees they might otherwise be entitled to.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Todd Rogers

We're in a great place to win. Everyone is gunning for us. We played really well in the last two events and for the most part, when one of us wasn't hot, the other did well. When we put it together, we really handled the teams.

Cheryl James

Change is not an event, its a process.

Don Kincaid

Watching the events is free. Everything is open to the public.

Steve Snyder

We're still tallying everything up and it will take a few days. There have been very few big events like this to hold a ruler next to.

Deepak Chopra

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Brad Carson

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Bill Gates

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Charlotte Rampling

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with

C. S. Lewis

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

Bill Vaughan

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Dick Cavett

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

Joshua Sylvester

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

David Waller

It's a ghost town. In my subdivision, there are several houses under construction, and I've only seen three of our trucks.

Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Earl Steele

They're like ghosts - there one second and gone the next.

Claire Coffee

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Du Fu

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Ron Russell

This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Mike Crosthwaite

It really was just one giant publicity stunt to promote the resort.

David Starr

They're making them more like the trucks. The trucks push a giant hole in the air, and we can really race each other. That's what NASCAR wants with this car.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

Susan Smith

We've tried to make it a place where someone can run in and get a gift for any occasion. We've been very pleased.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

Rabbi Nachman

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

Jeff Judkins

Ambrosia is as gifted offensively and defensively as any of those players in this game.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Eddie O'Sullivan

They scored one good try but we gifted them the rest and paid the price.

Eric Johansson

They say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,' but when it's a Trojan horse, you do.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

Bob Brooks

It's a simple license. If you're a business, you get a license. It's $20 a year, holy cow!

Don Lucia

First of all, I would like to congratulate Holy Cross. I thought they played terrific.

Saudi Arabia

a theology of holy terror and the means to live the plotters' life.

Terry Gilliam

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

Nick Swisher

D.J. can flat-out hit, holy smokes. I'm looking for big things from him.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Peter Hooper

This does not necessarily mean that they are nearly done tightening rates but rather that this process will become less automatic. They are laying the groundwork for this transition.

John Beal

They (the handguns) were loaded and pretty much laying around the house,

Elaine Youngs

It wasn't like Misty played horrible. But Rachel was just laying out to make some of those digs.

Dan White

I used to polish and wax the slides. Now it's laying on the ground. It's sad.

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Albert Jones

When I got there he was laying on the ground. He was hollering and waving his arms.

Jim Duggan

We had problems laying hose because of the multiple fires.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Edward Hopper

Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Chester Himes

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Chanel Iman

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Bill Maher

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

Edie Falco

I didn't know that the show would be received the way that it has been, ... I couldn't be more thrilled about it. But it's been a surprise.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.