Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Julie Roberts

I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

Joyce Meyer

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

George MacDonald

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

Emily Post

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Elizabeth Fry

It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted

Elizabeth Gilbert

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Joe Biden

You never say to a president for certain you wouldn't do anything, but I have no - look at me now - I have no desire to sit on the Supreme Court, none. It would be a great honor , but I have no desire, any more than George Mitchell did.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Sarah Dessen

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

Roland Barthes

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Roland Barthes

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Rod Stewart

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Saint Basil

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Jimmy Carter

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Jimmy Carter

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Jimmy Carter

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Jimmy Carter

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

James Surowiecki

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

Emeril Lagasse

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

M. Wolfe

All of the sudden, the president now has two openings. That's not unique, but it's rare,