Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.

Phil Smith

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

John Stokes

worked diligently and tirelessly and obtained over $750,000 in compensation for and on behalf of (Questa).

Don Porter

We're going to have to go out and lobby on behalf of our sport to get the support. We'll continue to do those things that have to be done to get it back in front of the session.

Harry Pearce

At a moment of great challenge and enormous need in the history of this company, the Board turned to one of its own, whose long career embodied the highest levels of trust, integrity and distinguished leadership, ... We needed an experienced, steady hand and Bill delivered. On behalf of our Board, our employees, investors, partners and customers, we will be forever grateful.

Tres Thomas

The most comprehensive way is to donate on behalf of the Rolling Stones $1 million to the Red Cross.

Katherine Harris

Accordingly, on behalf of the state Election Canvassing Commission and in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, I hereby declare Governor George W. Bush the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes for the president of the United States,

Gary Thompson

This ensures immediate response on behalf of Campus Police,

Allan McArtor

It's no secret that San Francisco is delighted to entertain any of these carriers. Once they move there and get the maintenance and the ticket counters and ground handling, it's very difficult to get that route back.

Lyall Gorman

They are excited and delighted to be part of the Mariners and their involvement is just the start for us.

Erik Zabel

It's a dream come true. I wanted to say farewell to T-Mobile by winning here and I'm delighted I could. The sprint was long and difficult, Bennati kept me on my toes all the way to the finish.

Tamsin Greig

I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative.

Ellis Williford

This is wonderful. We're delighted they're considering this form of relief. Any savings we can get will be important.

Muggsy Bogues

They're ecstatic, delighted that I'm back on the stage, so to speak.

David Reed

Delighted and where I want to be for London.

Ronaldinho Ronaldinho

The team played very well and I was delighted to help out with three goals.

Virender Sehwag

It was tough captaining the team as I'd missed the last Test match due to fever, but I'm delighted at leading India to a win.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

William Shakespeare

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

Cheryl Richardson

Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Charlie Kaufman

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Bessie Head

It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

Bill Johnson

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

Dave Schmidt

There's been an outpouring of generosity and support.

Alanis Morissette

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

Charles Manson

If I haven't seen it, it's new to me.

Gary Jackson

It's a safe haven for people, ... It's not dangerous.

Gordon Brown

It is our intention that not only is there no safe haven for terrorists, but there is no hiding place for terrorists' money.

Brad Pitt

I haven't known life to be happier.

Theresa Gritti

Curves' workout is 30 minutes, which Haven thought would get more women working out and living healthy.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill; / But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And the sound of a voice that is still!

Brian Courtmanche

We had our moments where I thought we were going to put this one away. Then West Haven would come right back. When you're in need of a win big time like they were, those things will happen.

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Charles Taylor

I've been through about 12 hurricanes in Louisiana and nothing was ever this bad,

Robbie Berg

We are urging all residents from south Texas to Louisiana to keep watch.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Jared Leto

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

Ian Somerhalder

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Crystal Kelly

It seems like every shot she makes is a big one for us. She did what she had to do when we needed her.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

John Remington

Northwest may suspect there is some disaffection in the ranks (of AMFA),

Byron Dorgan

Northwest is not a philanthropic organization - it has its own interests,

Terry Trippler

Northwest has made a very wise move. It's going to be a revenue generator.

Kurt Ebenhoch

Northwest filed the appropriate notice as soon as we received notice of the stock transaction.

Don Barnett

there is a lot of racial prejudice in northwest Ohio, in this area.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Darrell Jackson

I don't think people really give the Northwest a lot of respect.

Tony Amonte

But I don't think it's on anybody's mind. What is, is staying in first position (in the Northwest Division) and winning every night. Trades are a part of the game, whether it's September or whether it's March.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Bill Self

We're still playing better physically than we are mentally.

Jackie Bledsoe

We'll see what we'll do. We would rather run it first, of course, but we may have to throw it. They're pretty physical up front.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Allie Woods

They are a rough team. They are physical and fast. But I think we can keep up with them.

Olli Ahvenniemi

I tried to play physical with him and keep him off the ball.

Joe Coleman

This is the most physical staff I've had in seven years.

Denny Brauer

This is a very physical sport and it's a sport where you've really got to be in shape.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Will Stofega

This is a big step for them. They are trying to up the ante and provide a service that's up to snuff.

John Noel

It's one thing to provide someone with a job,

Sally Roth

They are provided with that, other than that they have to come up with the rest.

Susan Tucker

It is very frustrating because we want to provide relief,

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Gus Valdespino

They have not provided us with a motivation.

Nick Rahall

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Leonard Edelstein

Once we got the roads in, we had to provide a place for them to stay.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Jim Johnstone

We want to thank everyone for all their help.

Edward Gibbon

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Eartha Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Alan K. Simpson

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.