Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Javier Clemente

I think those that spit have descended from the trees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists

Rhonda Honegger

They descended on us like angels. We don't know how they found out about us, but that is how everything has happened in every step of this playground. Things just fell into place.

Gary Gibson

We've got a living dinosaur here. All the modern games of football and rugby must have descended from this game - and others like it.

John Anderson

The SWAT team descended on that vehicle in a pretty significant way, ... I think they would have fought it out if there had been less of a presence, but I think they realized it would be fruitless.

Vanessa Paradis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Cheryl Cole

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Bill Vaughan

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Dennis King

That would be one place where Phil can hit the ground running.

Rex Geveden

We can't have 10,000 people on the ground at the Kennedy Space Center.

Marlon Wayans

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.

Billy Wagner

We have to pick up ground when they lose.

Paul Hoffman

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.

Marc Pado

Mergers are looking to help us hold our ground today.

Richard Jefferies

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

Harvey Pekar

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

Janet Reno

will review that motion and respond appropriately in court.

Kip Harris

We played half-hearted. We went through the motions and let them push us around.

Bob Witeck

We know it because of the arts. The public has voted with TV dials and with motion picture dollars.... They are saying, 'If it's original and quality, I want to see it.

Sean McDonnell

His range of motion is a little limited. But he'll be fine.

Vincent Sarubbi

He was the one who really put this in motion and organized the other two younger youths.

Brian Greene

By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.

Michael Bennett

My neck's doing good. The motion is there. The pain is pretty much wearing away. I want to be safe about it, but I'm ready.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

Andrew Neff

It corroborates our view of a renewed sense of vigor and competitive spirit at HP.

Nong Duc Manh

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Bill Clinton

When we give what we can and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Billy Graham

One of the things we desperately need is a spiritual renewal in this country. We need a spiritual revival in America.

Zach Nelson

If they don't like you, they don't renew. Renewal is everything.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

Jim Butcher

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Alice Hoffman

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Steve Smith

Twelve and five. That's a big difference. You can say what you want about us, but we can play.

Mary MacLane

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

George S. Kaufman

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

Ray Bradbury

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Patrick Rafter

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

David A. Bednar

Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.

J. D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

Robin Wright

I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.

Gary Scelzi

I have chills. I've been wound up all week.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Billy Joel

She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.

Paul Dergarabedian

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Nora Roberts

The wounded recognized the wounded.