Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isobelle Carmody

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Brian Kavanagh

The past winners of our World Racing Championships awards have truly reflected the winning spirit to support the growth of great international competition. As our member organizations look forward, we must provide a sharper focus on world rankings and recognition that can be widely tracked and accepted by the entire racing world.

Brittany Snow

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

Chuck Berry

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

Rebel Wilson

I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don't think they would have accepted me in the school - 'This is Rebel'... so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel's way cooler.

Julie Morris

We have an advisory board of 12 faculty members from across the disciplines. Each proposal was reviewed by three people and given a score. Based on the score, some were automatically accepted and some were put up for review and further discussion. It was comparable to a standard agency's review process.

Jason Terry

We have tremendous talent coming in off that bench. Guys have accepted their roles and they're just coming out and playing hard and aggressive.

Isaac Brock

'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

Phoebe Philo

When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

Marques Wilkins

Miami was my dream school. But they wanted to wait to see what I did as a senior before deciding to offer or not. What if I waited and they didn't offer? I had several offers. I didn't want to drag out the recruiting process. I feel comfortable with my decision to go to Illinois.

Ken Dunn

We'll meet with our department heads on Thursday and Friday when we have a better picture of where the hurricane is going, before deciding on racing for Saturday and Sunday.

Jason Vargas

I wouldn't want it any other way. If it's the game deciding if we're going to go to the playoffs or not, I want to be out on the mound just like every other pitcher on this staff wants to be out on the mound.

Doug Schauer

I had it in my pocket the whole game and I was rubbing it the whole game. Maybe that was the deciding factor, the lucky lady bug.

Geoff Smith

Jack is known for deciding the time has come for a change.

Adam Fisher

I think I still got my point across, irrelevant to the jury deciding or not. Plus, with the jury you never know. I mean, there's always that risk. And with the settlement presented to me I was happy,

Chan Gailey

I think in the fall we'll still be in the position of deciding who's going to play what positions for the first two weeks. And then we've got to make a decision one way or the other after two weeks and go with it. And the interesting part will be how quickly any of the freshmen might be able to get involved.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

Charles Pyle

Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

John Haley

I was hearing from other people, other captains, that he was going around in their divisions ruffling feathers,

Miguel Cotto

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Robin Oakley

I don't think we'll see huge divisions here in Greece.

David Cole

What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.

Mel Karmazin

We're pleased to see improvements in all segments, ... The company's stations group had record operating results with each of the divisions - radio, outdoor and television - contributing to the results.

Henry Cabot Lodge

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Rick Perlstein

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

Rachel Cusk

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Patrick Rothfuss

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

Russ Brown

I think the streak meant more to the alumni. It was more of a distraction for the players.

Anja Paerson

I think this week was not meant to be.

Yuri Kochiyama

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

Sara Hunter

On paper, I'm sure everyone thinks this year has been terrible. But our seniors meant so much to this team. It's so sad to see them go. We just need to keep building.

Emma Watson

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Sebastian Horsley

The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Mike Albring

He's been practicing, running some drills and progressing, but he's not 100 percent and I'm not willing to risk it. Neither is his family.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

John James Ingalls

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Mortimer Adler

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Preston Brooks

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Lily Cole

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

Bainbridge Colby

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.