Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McMasters

Delay and denial are routine and regular except for the most routine of information.

Jim Leach

A delay does not serve well the North Korean people,

Marvin Kalb

Is it the leadership of the House? Is it Hastert? Is it DeLay?

Dick Armey

Tom DeLay has not even engaged in a formal vote count,

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road,

Maurice Luque

What they do is they locate the heat source right away so there's no delay in finding the source of the fire. With books, shelves and other devices in the way, they just followed the thermal image for the heat source and knew exactly where to go.

Ron Pollack

What that says to an HMO is, well, heck, we'll just delay and delay and deny and deny, because the worst thing that could happen to us is we'll have to pay for the service we originally denied,

Chris Johnson

We try to design our pavements as efficiently as we can. If we have a limited supply of money, and we do, we might have to reduce the length of the job, delay other jobs, or look for other ways to save money.

Aesop

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Graeme Souness

I am saddened at the way things have worked out. I wish the club, the players and the supporters good fortune and success going forward.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Randy Newberg

I feel like I won the lottery. This is just unbelievable good fortune to get to do this all in one year.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Reese Witherspoon

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Max Cannon

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

George Herbert

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Andy Murray

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

Ambrose Bierce

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Edward Abbey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

David Attenborough

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

Studs Terkel

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

Patricia Briggs

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

Cassandra Clare

Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.

Franco Nero

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Jose Rizal

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Carter Burwell

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Bernie Sanders

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

Andy Garcia

I wish we didn't have to tell this story.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Christopher Morley

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Anne Bradstreet

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Clay Shirky

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

D. J. MacHale

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)