Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Estrange

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

Abu Bakr

If you expect the blessings of God, be good to His people.

Thomas Otway

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

Master Kwon

Include a few moments of quite time into your daily schedule; Breath deeply, evaluate your thoughts, delete the negative ones and reset your mind to a positive perspective by counting your blessings and overflowing opportunities.

Larry Meyers

The energy around it is really inspiring me. I've already felt that. There's been some really great blessings that have come my way, so, it must be true.

Bernie Siegel

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

Alan Bennett

That's a great benefit. After we chose the cast, we educated them into the play. We taught them. One of the blessings of being at the National Theatre is that you have a very long rehearsal time.

Janet Napolitano

As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.

Michael Bradley

Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes. This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume.

Mark Pagel

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.

Harry Redknapp

He is coming in to learn. He's coming in to pick people's brains and I'm happy with that. But I am the manager and I pick the team and recommend the players.

Alfred Neuman

Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

Dale Robinson

Research is showing more and more that using movement and doing brainteasers increases the overall health of your brain.

Travis Bradberry

Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Jay Patel

I rack my brains to come up with something, ... It's hard.

Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Michael Waltrip

I ran out of brains with about five to go and hit the wall a couple of times. I just saw Kurt and wanted to win so bad. I'd rather mess up trying. I did all I could.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Samuel Butler

Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things

Kate Adie

Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.

Domingo Garcia

I think it's important we have protest, and civil disobedience is a great American tradition, but we need to do it in a constructive manner, and we need to do it on a non-school day if you're a student.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Joe Logan

Half-court execution is something we've worked on. We still look to run, but as you get deeper into the MAAC, you have to score in the half-court.

Frank Busch

I think we're a little deeper going into tomorrow than we were on the women's side, so I'm looking forward to that.

Mike Strong

We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.

Ryan Smith

He dug down into his heart. He was tired, but this whole week he has dug down deeper than ever and it is really going to pay off for him.

Tony Rizzo

Road warriors have laptops already, but what we're talking about is making a deeper penetration into the enterprise.

Gordon Brown

Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have never been stronger, deeper and more cordial,

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Bob Day

In the last six to 10 years, it's growing somewhat deeper into the lagoon. It depends on where you are.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Jenny Backus

His plan is going to needlessly risk the economic prosperity and jeopardize the future of Social Security and Medicare.

Lawrence White

I think it's more a political statement ? a social statement ? rather than an economic statement.

David Bowers

It could be an economic recovery and a profits recession.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Carroll Robinson

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Alan Ackerman

I think the market senses something good going on. On the one hand, the feeling is that the economy is starting to show signs of improvement. But there are plenty of skeptics around who say that feeling may be a little premature, and they are selling on strength,

Jon Burnham

I think the market is in pretty good shape right now. The economy is improving, and you're seeing investors react to that.

Alan Skrainka

I think the performance gap between the new-economy and old-economy stocks is like a rubber band; it seems to be snapping the other way. The new economy sounds very exciting, but you're still going to need food, medicine and electricity to survive.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Jeffrey Schloss

I thought the issue was so polarized, I just didn't want to get caught,

Jon Karkow

I think we're at the point where it isn't an issue now.

Tony Johnson

I think we will make it. We have had some issue with respect to the weather, but we are moving along.

Jennifer Johnson

I think what we're leaning to now is that the Web issue will be a support for the print product.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Jeff Kelly

We look at it as a big win. It's slightly less than what we would normally enjoy, but nowhere near what it could have been in the (competitive-bidding process).

Billy Donovan

He was teaching us that sometimes less is more. Less of myself was more that day.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Edgar Peters

The only thing that seemed to really move today was oil.

Mike Archer

He said he was going to move out and live with his father. He said he didn't trust her anymore. She wasn't the same person that he married.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Bryan Kennedy

I like talking to the public and straightening them out.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

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.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Scott Nester

I keep checking, and we have not received any yet.

Jeong Kim

Each team will receive a word, then they will have 20 seconds to confer and 60 seconds to spell.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Jim Goodman

It's going to be really interesting to watch him work here at the receiver drills and do all the things that they do.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Woodrow Wilson

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history...

William James

The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Jessica Pare

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Julie Brown

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Jan Murphy

I think we've done just about everything that can be done on a school vacation.

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Mike Lowry

I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.

Jonah Lomu

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Joe Cornish

I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Patrick O'Brian

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.