Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carl Sagan

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Bethenny Frankel

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

Raquel Welch

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Mark Sue

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Cathy Moriarty

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cecelia Ahern

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Carrie Underwood

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Carl Rogers

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

Bill Bryson

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Bethenny Frankel

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Bette Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Ashton Kutcher

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Thomas Edward Brown

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

Jorma Taccone

I went to the doctor recently and she actually prescribed that I go out for ten minutes a day, I'm so depleted on vitamin D.

Irwin Winkler

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

John Timoney

There are prescribed ways of doing this. I know this is very frustrating and isn't satisfactory, but that's the way it is,

Orlando Bloom

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

Randy Harrison

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

Sonia Braga

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

Rhonda Britten

Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?

Jimmy Cliff

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

Tracy McMillan

Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

Charlie White

As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it.

Kevin Jackson

I think there were strained relationships in years past.