Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Edward Gibbon

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Norman Finkelstein

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Richard Rhodes

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Jami Attenberg

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Benny Goodman

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Penny Junor

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

Gerald Massengill

We would rather not have wardens driving in from long distances. We would rather have wardens who are part of the community.

Ferdi Heyneke

With this gold price heading towards $600, positive sentiment is driving the sector.

Tim Gallagher

With this car, its going to be the first time we have all three levels - exterior style, interior style and driving dynamics.

John Kilduff

Worries about gasoline supplies during the summer driving season are fading.

David Pursell

We've got a very uncertain geopolitical environment, and we have an uncertain gasoline situation in the U.S., and all those factors are driving the energy market higher.

Carrie Johnson

Women will be driving the next big online retail boom. Online retailers would be wise to look at how women shop online, and tailor their strategies accordingly.

Martha Mitchell

To permit teens to talk on the phone while still practicing their driving skills simply does not promote safe driving practices on our roadways.

Dav Whatmore

We're really enjoying the situation. Barring any mishaps in the second innings, we're in the driving seat.

Geoff Smith

At Daytona, Eric finished sixth, did a really nice job driving his way through the field.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Gary Chase

They (Framingham) are only three miles away. They aren't in our league, and we don't have to worry about running into them at all.

Alan Culpepper

You don't want the race to go without you, but you know you have 22 miles to go. It's a balance.

Tom Campbell

There was nobody else in the state who had to go 120 miles to play two sectional games. But that's the way it is.

Maurice Luque

They rescued about 240 people within a four-hour period of time within 5 square miles before they had to suspend operations at nightfall. There were about 500 people who still needed to be rescued.

Jim Haggerty

Back then I could run two miles in 13 minutes. Now I don't think I can run two miles.

Dennis Smith

The smoke could be seen from miles away.

Sarah Miller

I've been doing a lot more miles doing workouts twice a week.

Dr. Shannon

These are two very, very important milestones as we progress.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Cliff Carrier

We've got it pretty well covered. The numbers out here don't matter, though. It's the numbers inside, and there's nobody in there.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Mitch Daniels

A survey shows that nobody would pay a toll to go to Evansville.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Lincoln Chafee

It's a very tenuous security situation, ... I'd been there a year ago -- what a change.

Christopher Shays

Awesome. This wasn't about Connecticut. This was about the security of the United States. & It was an overwhelming vote by the commission.

Max Baucus

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Chuck Austin

Our distributed support and security system was failing.

Richard Pennington

The things we need for security aren't getting done,

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Juergen Peters

We wanted security and security is what we have got.