Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Bryan Crough

When the letter was withdrawn, I assumed that they did not want to pursue it further.

Tibor Fischer

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass ittoward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippledwithout choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all').

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Robin Yount

Ned has been trying to get me back for quite a few years and the time just hasn't been right for me personally. I've been trying to get the family out of the house and get the kids grown up and move on. I always assumed I would go back one day to Milwaukee in some capacity, and I was very fortunate that the time to come back is now with these really talented young players that we have and hopefully get to watch their progress.

George Robertson

NATO nations have assumed their collective responsibilities toward Turkey, a nation at the moment under threat.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Rose McCaulay

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Thomas Sharp

That's where we really have a traffic flow that the road cannot handle now. The sections in between, quite honestly, can handle the traffic flow -- don't need to have new capacity added.

Seiji Maehara

Prime Minister Koizumi is making comments as if there is no problem but...he cannot escape moral responsibility.

Angus Campbell

Profit taking cannot be ruled out, especially if oil prices head north.

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Roy Coates

Our seniors have experienced so much, including two championships. They have become so experienced and have a lot to offer to the other girls. There's always talent out there - talent is easy to find, but the personality and the leadership of these girls cannot be replaced.

Julia Huff

Other browsers may work well with the version we are using now, but they have not been tested. Because of our tight schedule and resources, we cannot do that testing now.

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Randy Halcomb

I usually choose a player, but Robby expressed to me that he wanted to take it. If a player is ready to step up and take the challenge, I will give him that opportunity. He got the job done.

Gary Smith

The music we choose is very diverse. And that's deliberate. That's part of the message of the convention.

Randy Winn

After my senior year in high school, I was playing in some summer league and a scout said, 'If you keep after this, you might be able to make some money doing this.' So I knew I'd choose baseball.

Stephanie Herseth

South Dakota enjoys a wonderful quality of life and a dedicated workforce, and it is easy to see why John Morrell would choose to expand here. I am pleased that this expansion not only will result in new jobs for Sioux Falls, but also because it demonstrates John Morrell's long-term commitment to the region. This expansion also reflects the talent and dedication of the folks who already work at John Morrell.

Ron Dellums

Now I choose to make a personal decision and to empower myself to regain my life, ... It's important for me to now move on.

Chris Bell

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

Greg Allen

Teams will always feel some sort of pressure. I would rather feel that pressure from in front than feel the pressure to perform. We like having a target on our backs. That way you choose to prove if you are good enough.

Nathaniel Bronner

Sometimes there is no easy way out, but there is always an easier way out and a harder way out. Choose wisely.

Bob Muglia

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

John Lewis Gaddis

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Najib Razak

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Chuck Schumer

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

Jeff Neal

We are looking into whether this lawsuit may constitute a SLAPP suit.

Nick Vujicic

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

Bill Shorten

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

Jessa Gamble

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Newt Gingrich

People can walk out, but what I'm saying is a fact about a crime,

Catherine Deneuve

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Robert King

No rational trier of fact could find that the infringing Flying B logo enabled the defendants to generate more income ... than they would have otherwise done,

Gordon Kwan

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Gordon Kwan

Oil futures are looking forward to a much colder-than-expected winter as forecast by many meteorologists. The fact that we have had so many refineries shut down means we are going into this winter on perhaps not enough heating oil.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Ryan Anderson

The switchover means you need a digital-ready TV, not a high-definition TV.

Ross Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Dick Murgatroyd

I simply can't tell you how much this means to me.

Mike Mahoney

That's going to be up to him because it's a new position. By no means is he being banished from anywhere.

Stephane Dujarric

Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. We have a responsibility to act.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Sterling Ivey

We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

John Egan

If DSS isn't going to do anything, then it may not be necessary for us to do anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Si Robertson

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.