Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Ellen G. White

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

Ellen Key

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Bella Abzug

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Imelda May

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

David Horsey

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

Brad Lidge

The adrenaline was there pitching at home and having the crowd behind you. Everybody in the bullpen did such a fantastic job. That's the most important thing, I think, about this game.

John Ringer

The adrenaline was pumping at states. Once I hit the water, it was just go.

Will Brown

The adrenaline was flowing. Our guys played at a very, very high level. We did it for 30 to 35 minutes; we just faded.

Carl Crawford

The adrenaline rush is there, ... It's fun to play in front of the big crowds. It's exciting.

Giaan Rooney

The adrenaline levels are still so high. My body hasn't had a chance to relax, so it makes all the hard work (for the Challenge) OK.

Vinny Castilla

The adrenaline is a little different. The fans, you see the flags waiving. That was beautiful. It was very special.

Sam Reeves

The 8-second ride on the bull is the biggest adrenaline rush in the world. There's no other rush like it.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Chris Harris

That was huge. That helped us out a lot .

Matt Mitchell

That was probably the one mistake I made, but my team picked me up and helped me through it.

Joanne Boyle

We could have helped ourselves. Now, it's a wait-and-see.

Randall Kennedy

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

Nayvadius Cash

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bertrand Russell

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Carl Rogers

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Sonya Hoiaas

I think I was more nervous then she was.

John Shepperd

I think this is going to be a nervous week.

Gaston Gaudio

I was very nervous at first because there's so much pressure on me and the expectations are so high,

Ben Kingsley

It doesn't get any easier. I still get very nervous and excited, but I'm hoping... what I'm trying to do is simplify. That's what I'm trying to do.

Rusty Wallace

I think I make Steve a little nervous sometimes, so I'm going to be comfortable sitting in Homestead watching his race, off and on.

Craig Austrie

When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?

Andrew Bell

We'll get a positive return from equities in 2006. I'm not nervous about markets.

Jimmy Littleton

We were just as nervous as they were.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

C. S. Lewis

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

C. S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carl Sagan

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Ron Turner

I think they're going to concentrate on stopping the run, which is what they do.

Josh Fodor

He was stopping everything. We had a lot of opportunities but couldn't get any in.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Walter Kirn

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Marcus Thomas

Tired, basically. And I really didn't understand how come we weren't stopping them.

Amy Winehouse

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Ed Pastor

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.