Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kozo Hiramatsu

If we find it necessary to change the company name, we'll decide it based on the results of that research.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

Oliver Hoyte

If they were the first school to offer me, I would have committed right then and there. They're right in my back yard. All these other schools are recruiting you from out of state, and this school's five minutes from your house. They should have been the first school to offer me. I pretty much based my decision off that.

Brian Corcoran

She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this season. She knows she has the opportunity to place highly in the state based upon her current fitness.

Kanniks Kannikeswaran

She will be playing Indian music, based on raga, which is something unique to Indian classical music. It is of a melodic idea with a lot of improvisation involved.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Dan Sheeran

Some consumers start with a la carte, then learn about the benefits of subscription and switch. We believe that many consumers will choose their services based on the device they choose.

Conrad Burke

Some 90 percent of solar cells are based on crystalline bulk silicon and there has been no sign of a breakthrough leading to a next-generation technology. We think we have come up with unique ways to do that.

Jeff Koinange

Some observers have said they found irregularities on election day -- like the electoral centers being based in people's homes, in chiefs' homes rather than in neutral places like schools or fields,

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bobby Shelton

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

John Luther

We were looking at 2,500 square feet in a basic metal building there, and this is 10,000 square feet in a building that was designed as a hardened structure. There's no way a tornado could ever take this place out because of the design and location.

Gayle Fallon

Unfortunately, school systems are more often concerned with how their retention numbers look instead of whether these children can read well enough to succeed. Consequently, schools have found loopholes in the law, and legislators need to plug those holes. Nothing does a child a greater disservice than promoting him when he is lacking the basic skills to succeed.

Karl Menninger

Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically

Bob Taylor

SCRAP has been successful, basically because it gives residents the convenience of getting their materials recycled at a school nearby. They don't have to go a long way.

Tom Scott

SDSU has for the last quarter of a century sort of bridled at the basic mission statement of the CSU and has extended beyond the teaching of undergraduates. We expect more from our faculty than that.

Gary Chase

No change to target price or basic fundamental assumptions, but share price weakness has materially improved the risk-reward tradeoff in the shares.

John Carioba

Nobody wants government paper, here or abroad. The basic reason for that is the 'Lula is coming!' panic, which brings other consequences such as speculation and liquidity problems.

Charles Spurgeon

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

Rafael Cruz

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

Raf Simons

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

Shane Claiborne

I do believe that the Church is God's primary instrument for ushering in the Kingdom (God's dream) on earth as it is in heaven, but God is not limited to use only the Church, or only Christians for that matter.

Shane Claiborne

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

Shane Claiborne

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

Ravi Zacharias

Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Kirk Hinrich

I felt like we should have stole that game. We were right there. I see it more as a missed opportunity.

Cindy Cuthbertson

I felt like we really stepped it up a notch. I'm real proud of the kids.

Frank Catalanotto

I felt like we let him off the hook. To his credit, he settled down.

Al Horford

I felt like we had the momentum going.

Beckie Scott

I felt in a lot of ways I was racing for her today.

Greg Brunner

I felt horrible. I've been thinking about this forever. I didn't forget him. I overlooked him.

Tommy Maddox

I felt great (yesterday), really good -- just as good as (Thursday),

Dustin Almond

I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays.

Richie Sexson

I felt like I tagged him pretty good, so that's what stunned me. I think Jason knew it, too. He started walking back to the dugout. Everyone makes mistakes.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Albert Schweitzer

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Michael W. Smith

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Michael Lerner

We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

Simon Wiesenthal

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

Rajneesh

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Rajneesh

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

David Baxter

A lot of people would say, 'Man, I wish I could be like Brittany Rayburn and get all this attention,' but don't realize there's that other part that goes with it.

Irving Berlin

You don't need analyzin' It is not so surprisin' That you feel very strange but nice; Your heart goes pitter-patter, I know just what's the matter, Because I've been there once or twice; Put your head on my shoulder, You need someone who's older, A r

Catherine Hardwicke

There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.

Guy Gavriel Kay

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

Pam Roberts

The property is up for sale and the variance goes with the land not the person. Who knows what some people would do with it?

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Patrick Lussier

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Rick Perry

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Rick Perry

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Rick Perry

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Rick Perry

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Tony Abbott

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Tony Abbott

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account

Tony Abbott

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.