Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zebulon Pike

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

Zebulon Pike

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Zebulon Pike

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

Zebulon Pike

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

Oliver North

I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

James Longstreet

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

Robert E. Lee

Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.

Zebulon Pike

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Zebulon Pike

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Constance Wu

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Jack Anderson

The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,

Jiao Yang

The police are now carrying an all-out investigation into the case. And this is only a single case.

Jorge Belevan

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

Art Hogan

The overall passion for Internet stocks is carrying over to the index itself,

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

John C. Calhoun

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

Gina Talamona

The antitrust division is looking into the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the music download industry.

Pete Carroll

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

LeBron James

We have the tiebreaker with everybody in our division right now (except Detroit). This was a must-win.

Charles Pyle

Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

Alistair MacLeod

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Lester Funk

We have a huge rivalry with Highland, so the game was real intense with the fans. It was one of the most intense games of the season so far. It was a division game and a physical battle.

Bobby Bowden

We have to kind of redirect our goal - our goal now is to win our division. Forget everything else, men. Try to win this division and get into the (ACC) championship game and go from there.

Jim Loughran

We've got some tough girls. They kept fighting, and we made possession more in the second half.

Maurice Cheeks

We're working. Everything we do is not going to be perfect. We just have to keep fighting.

Marcus Banks

It doesn't look good, but we're going to keep fighting. Anything can happen.

Justin Gray

We put ourselves here. It's not a position we're used to being in, but we've got to keep fighting.

Megan Duffy

One thing I know about this team is we're going to keep fighting. Just disappointed that it has to be when we're down 15.

Marc Ward

I don't think we're being weak on fighting. I think you'll see more enforcement because the punishment will fit the offense.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Doug Lipscomb

I take my hat off to Pope. They competed and went down fighting. We did some good things, but there's plenty of room for improvement. We're not quite where I want to be yet.

Ron Zook

It all was going their way, ... But you have to keep fighting.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Gene Weingarten

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

Maya Angelou

We have it in us to be splendid.

Emily Carr

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

Manfred von Richthofen

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.