Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilson Mizner

God sends our relatives, but we can choose our friends.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Upinder Dhillon

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

John B. Robinson

Whatever gods you worship, you realize that they are your gods, the product of your own mind, terrible or amiable, as you may choose to depict them.

David Boies

What Microsoft set out to do through these contracts, and largely succeeded for the time they were in effect, was to deprive consumers of the right to choose between Microsoft and Navigator.

Jeff Chirico

The people in New Hope have been very supportive and have been overwhelmingly helpful in helping us to choose the right people to interview and to come up with a good story and really cooperating better than we could have ever imagined.

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Rainos Hayes

I think that's how it should be. Other countries might have more surfers to choose from, but talent-wise, we feel like we can compete with the best.

Jan Benvie

We make it clear that if we are kidnapped, we do not want there to be force or any form of violence used to release us. If the government or military commanders choose to do that, that is their responsibility.

Colin Trevorrow

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Butch Williams

I think it's a clear violation. If you've got a lawyer and (police have) been notified, they're supposed to contact your lawyer.

Bill Cheney

I think it is clear that, whatever the economic outlook was on Monday, the outlook is shakier now, and there are stronger arguments for cutting rates.

Vladimir Putin

I think it is logical, clear and evident,

Susan Donofrio

I think it'd be a nonstarter. The size of those two airlines, as well as overlap, makes it prohibitive to (Department of) Justice. And you wouldn't have a clear leader in terms of the merger. Other deals being discussed, you know who's the buyer. With American and Delta, there would be more fighting.

Susan Donofrio

I think it'd be a nonstarter, ... The size of those two airlines, as well as overlap, makes it prohibitive to (Department of) Justice. And you wouldn't have a clear leader in terms of the merger. Other deals being discussed, you know who's the buyer. With American and Delta, there would be more fighting.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

I think it's mostly the uncertainty regarding the situation in Iran and the very clear decision of the IAEA to refer the country to the UN Security Council.

Joe Gallagher

I actually had shirts printed up for the kids that say F.O.O.L because as linemen they usually don?t get the credit they deserve, so we have to stick together like a fraternity. The line did an excellent job clear the way tonight.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Cato June

I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Glen Hanlon

He keeps on doing stuff like this. Just when I thought I've seen it all, he does something else. He did a lot of things tonight that were pretty impressive. I think you got a pretty good idea of what a force he is.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Matt McKay

He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot.

Max Mosley

What we will do is publish the 2008 regulations and there will be a Formula One World Championship in 2008,

Robert Wiley

He's just fought his way, as he normally does through that, and his form in the WAFL has been exceptional, so it is a reward for his performances in the WAFL and (it's great for him) to just be able to get out there and play footy.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Tim Ruskell

There is a formula and there is a way to get to that point. You don't know how quickly it's going to happen.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

James Bovard

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

David Novak

It is kind of unique, when the government argues the defendant is telling the truth.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

William James

There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

Sarah Palin

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Samuel P. Huntington

The U.S. has and still is cooperating with various military dictatorships around the world. Obviously we would prefer to see them democratized, but we are doing it because we have national interests, whether it's working with Pakistan on Afghanistan or whatever.

Sydney Wayser

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Christian Gross

There is a JavaScript that has a lot of these things solved. Nobody's released it.

Trevor Manuel

It is something that we should be able to release very very soon.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Deborah White

The IEA release has thrown some water on prices. But what remains to be seen is how strong the fundamentals are and whether there will be any more hurricanes.

Rob Schneider

We're not getting released in Japan; I know that for a fact,

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Larry Turner

They will be released shortly, but no serious injuries. We're still investigating and will look into what occurred.

William H. Macy

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Wendell Berry

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

Yoko Ono

All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Morgan Saylor

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Mahatma Gandhi

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

Ellen Glasgow

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Marc Ash

I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way.

Nelson Mandela

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.