Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

Carrie Newcomer

Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

Darren Sanderlin

We just didn't want him to get a good feel of the game. We just wanted to keep him confused because once he gets a rhythm, he's a tremendous player.

Effi Eitam

You are far from being the successor to Sharon. You proved today that you are fearful, confused and manipulative. You exhibited stupidity and opacity.

Ozzie Guillen

I thought he was maybe just confused and missed the sign. But no, he just started running on his own.

Barry Lopez

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

Alice Walker

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Sarah Phillips

I think people were confused about what they were voting on.

Tim Heekin

I think people walked in confused today as to whether we are going to continue this uptrend through year-end or back off.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Igor Luksic

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Daniel Waldschmidt

The path to full potential travels through the valley of set-backs...

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Dick Pound

The application of the (Italian) law did have a deterrent effect. The fact that we ended up with a joint operation I think sends a very strong signal.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

Raina Telgemeier

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Dave Forney

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

Paul Shaffer

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

Zach Johnson

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Drake Bell

I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Barbara Turner

That whole Connecticut thing is tough. It's a tough situation. We're off the radar. Like nobody's really talking about us, but they are. So no matter what, Connecticut's always going to come out of somebody's mouth whether it's negative, positive. It's been tougher this year than any year for me. It's something that we've done a really good job of fighting through, and I think that's why we are in the position we're in right now.

Marillyn Hewson

The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference... supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Paul Wolfowitz

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Steve Alford

Why would I read it? I lived it.

Theo Holtwijk

We haven't really lived up to that promise.

Sophia Loren

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

Celine Buckens

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

Roy Brown

On Sept. 12, he lived a day longer than my daughter. And it's just not fair.

John Foster

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Dull Knife

I have lived my life. I am ready.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

Dale Lindsey

When he's 100 percent, he has rare talent athletically.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

John McCarthy

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.