Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Kinzer

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Capt. Spirlet

He's definitely considered armed and dangerous and has extremely violent tendencies.

Rory Kennedy

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Jamie Shea

Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.

Charles Grassley

The purpose of this letter is to express grave concern and raise questions regarding allegations that a textile contractor has been using toxic substances in the production of fabric used by armed forces personnel,

Steve Bolman

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

Stephanie Pell

He was recruited to travel overseas to engage in jihad or armed confrontation.

Sheriff White

He is armed and we believe extremely dangerous.

Ron Barber

Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.

Saint Francis de Sales

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Atharva Veda

DEVOTION fosters the highest virtue; it is the most precious treasure, it is the truest path, the only way to God.

David Platt

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

Jessye Norman

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Alain Botton

I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.