Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

Willie Aames

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Lynda Scaggs

Most Christians in the community prefer to shop at their Christian bookstore.

John Ortberg

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

John Tesh

You'll hear Christians being interviewed from time-to-time, but you won't hear us pray on-air. It's a Christian guy hosting a secular show.

John Greene

For most of the 20th century, the secular perspective moved forward and was in the ascendancy. Recently however, conservative Christians have been on the offensive, recovering some of that lost ground.

Jan Hepler

We feel that sometimes the personal touch from other Christians is important.

Azim Premji

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Josh Hartman

We hadn't faced a lot of teams that pressured us and picked us up at half court.

Robert Bennett

You can be faced with possibly going to jail (in which all four of those did), possibly being suspended from school and even from the band.

Kelly Scott

We haven't faced a weak team yet. We're going to have to work for our wins.

Keith Rockwell

The problems we have faced all week continue, in agriculture, industrial goods, cotton.

Tracy Nelson

We dont see that kind of firepower we faced tonight very often.

Andruw Jones

We didn't score any runs, but that's okay. I think this is the first time these guys have faced high-level pitchers. It's good for them to see and now they can make their adjustments.

Peter D. Mitchell

On the other hand, faced with a new theory, the members of the scientific establishment are often more vulnerable than the lonely innovator.

Phil English

One of the major problems faced with Hurricane Katrina was lack of communication. This issue has been addressed. We have back up plans and then we have back up plans for our back up plans.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Bethany Hamilton

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

Charles R. Swindoll

God declared me righteous!

Charles R. Swindoll

Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it.

Charles R. Swindoll

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

Jason Grilli

To grace my father's number, pitch in a Tigers uniform and get my first win (as a Tiger) and have him in the stands, you can't script it any better than that.

Joseph Conrad

He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes.

William Shakespeare

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural

Byron Katie

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

Carlos Santana

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Richard Lewis

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Peter Segal

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Matt Kennedy

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Ed Peterson

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Mark Doren

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Ivo Daalder

The overt message is that preventing nuclear proliferation is important.

Arsene Wenger

Messi is a Playstation.

Jim Tressel

That would have been the wrong message to send to Justin,

Phil Garner

We're winning. Don't mess with it while we're winning. We're winning, plain and simple.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

Jeff Long

Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.

Charles Petzold

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Adam Graves

Mess isn't a 'What if?' guy. That was Mess. He played on the edge.

Peter O'Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

Ann Rice

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.

Robert Preston

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

Jane Goodall

We reckon that in about 20 years there'll be none left.

English Proverbs

One of these day is none of these days.

Mike Kuntz

For whatever reason none of us had the sense to make it come together until yesterday.

Skip Brock

He hasn't said one word about it. Honestly, none of us even realized it at the time.

Caitlyn Jenner

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

Jillian Rose Reed

I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.

Dan Wheldon

I think Jenson somewhat screwed me up there,

Antony Starr

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

Terry Labonte

It's embarrassing for me being from Texas. I just want everyone to know that everything in Texas isn't as screwed up as it is at this place.

Richard Davis

We were screwed up in attitude, positioning and skill level. We feel we've made additions by subtraction.

George Rodriguez

They treated me as if I screwed up,

Bud Adams

They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.

Gerard Way

We're just as screwed up as you.

Mark Damas

Somebody screwed up in here. It is not the place. It is not the location.

Kelley Armstrong

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bo Ryan

That was his shot in the 1920s and 30s.

Dennis Fermoyle

That was the only shot we got in the third period.

Eric Osmundson

That was the big shot of the game.

Scott Skiles

We had our chances. We just couldn't make enough shots at the end.

Christy Porter

We were sluggish. We couldn't make the shots fall.

John Boyd

Whoever was on the grassy knoll in '63 shot better than we did.

Darren Jackson

We just couldn't make our shots under the basket.

Annika Sorenstam

Winning the LPGA Championship was very satisfying, especially considering the shot I made over the trees on the 16th.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Joe Gibbs

We'll probably stay the same way we are with kicking.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Ashley Olsen

Usually when we're working we just stay in the hotel, but it was really nice.