Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Nikki Davis

The Scott County game was a turnaround for us. It showed us we could be beat, so we knew we had to bring our 'A' game to the Sweet Sixteen.

Cheryl Wilson

The school spirit for our sport is very high. They were able to bring it back under control. I am very pleased.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school spirit for our sport is very high, ... They were able to bring it back under control. I am very pleased.

Alexis Strauss

The San Pedro River watershed, an internationally recognized ecological treasure, is a much-valued resource for Arizona, the U.S. and Mexico. We hope to bring water quality improvements to this watershed, and will strive to protect Arizona's water resources for generations to come.

Erin O'Connor

I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.

Greg Copeland

I've seen contention before. I'm trying to work to come up with ways to bring people together and move past that particular moment in time.

Jack McKeon

I've seen a tremendous change in the guy. I saw a great work ethic in spring training. I saw a guy that was focused and determined. He has all that potential, and he wants to bring it to the front, and he has been pitching like that.

David Walters

I've talked to over 600 people, and they always bring up taxes and the budget. They just want to see they're getting the services they pay for.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Vince Young

To get him this victory, we love playing for a guy like that.

Tony Bethel

With him making plays like that, and guys being able to get open, we are tough to beat. He stepped up like a senior should.

Justin Cage

With him being on the floor, he's a lot bigger, a guy that can get in there and rebound. B.J.'s ... going to be aggressive. That's what we need ... off the bench.

Buck Showalter

With guys like Brad, they're going to trust their track record. They're going to get there if you stay with them.

Bobby Crosby

With Richie going out, a lot of people thought it would hurt us. But we have a lot of guys who can shut them down. It was impressive. We know if we have a guy hit, we have somebody else who can step up and get the job done.

Les Robinson

You have to be a poker player and be able to read whether a guy is really interested or not.

Jeff Pentland

You have to be able to run well in the No. 2 spot. With Ichiro on base, the No. 2 guy will take pitches, so he's going to have to be able to hit well with two strikes. I think we've got guys who can do that.

Brian Billick

You have to talk to Ozzie about that one. If he's the highest rated guy on the board, we'll take him.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Shawn Dalbert

This was a big win to protect our home court. This is a tough district. You can throw out all the records and all the stud athletes. You have to come out and play every night.

Russell Baze

We turned for home and he kind of shook loose of those horses and pricked his ears, like he's known to do,

Keith Mitchell

We try to win the series at home and play even on the road. You try to win all the games, but that's impossible.

Steve Jacobs

Very often when people come back from a war, they're disengaged emotionally and spiritually, ... You've told them it's OK to go and kill people, and then they're supposed to come home and life is supposed to be OK, and it's not OK.

Charles Golvin

Users are less likely to switch when it means replacing a functioning home network.

Orson Scott Card

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Orson Scott Card

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

Neil Young

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Cassandra Clare

Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Cassandra Clare

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.

Cassandra Clare

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

Cassandra Clare

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Jacob Riis

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Cassandra Clare

Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.

Cassandra Clare

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

Cassandra Clare

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Thomas H. Cook

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

E. L. James

I think women love a passionate love story.

John Cassavetes

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Kid Rock

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

Kate Thompson

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

Jamie Martin

It's complicated - love. It's so unique every time, with every person. And when the real thing comes along, I guess we just have to hope we see it.

Dan Barker

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Chan Gailey

Everything is minor in my mind right now. The worst right now is Pat Clark.

Barry Gibb

There's still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.

John Dillon

There's no question in my mind we will be a stronger company.

Mitt Romney

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

George Phillips

There's no question in my mind it will reopen, ... We need out regional labs.

Meredith Whitney

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

Hersh Wolch

The problem is, after he testifies, he can't get it out of his mind and he has to be hospitalized.