Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Pat Camden

The police officer was protecting himself and the customers in the shop, ... His actions could very well have saved lives today.

Bradley Byrne

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.

Bruce Jackson

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Victoria Osteen

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Bradley Byrne

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

Donald Trump

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

Alice Walker

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Doris Meissner

The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviously the system as it's operating is now is badly broken, ... but by and large, anti-terrorism is a different endeavor.

Bud Selig

We know that we have to work to do, ... We'll continue to intensify our efforts. I'm very aware, I'm extremely sensitive about it, and I feel badly about it. But we need to get to work to change things.

Raven-Symone

The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.

Patrick Ness

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

Ville Nieminen

We have a group of guys who wanted to play so badly for Finland. The guys who came in the second and third waves have been the energy of our hockey club.

J. Horton

We have children who need to be fed, and some are so neglected that they badly need showers.

Jessie Evans

That would have been huge for the program, beating them again. The place was filled, and we just didn't make a couple of plays late that could have changed the game.

Nick Mangold

That would be great. Could we find one more (first-rounder)? Could we sneak another one in there? I always like beating Miami.

Chad Greenway

That was typical of what the refs were doing today. But it's not about that. It's about Florida beating us. They outplayed us today.

Jim Calhoun

The 16 beating the one, it's going to come. There is just too much parity in college basketball.

Paul Thompson

That was a job well done. We've swept them in the league, but with Newcastle beating Belfast it makes the way we played in Nottingham all the worse.

LeBron James

We can't keep beating teams like Phoenix, and Detroit, and San Antonio, and then lose to a sub-par .500 team. It's not going to help us.

Romain Grosjean

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!

Ernie Whitt

We had our chances, we had our fate in our own hands and didn't come through with it. Anything can happen, you look at the odds and they are probably worse than us yesterday beating the U.S. but then that's why we play the game.

Kendra Clemons

We had opportunities and we just didn't capitalize on them and they did. That's just what is the difference between beating the best and wanting to be the best.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Barbara W. Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Bethany Mota

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

David Hewson

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

Chris Abani

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Rick Pitino

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Ingmar Bergman

Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade.

Fadela Chaib

That would be the beginning of a human influenza epidemic but we are not there yet.

Isobelle Carmody

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

Imani Hakim

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Zadie Smith

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Henry David Thoreau

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

Constance Wu

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

Bobby Wallace

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Todd Rundgren

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Yayoi Kusama

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Gregg Brandon

We could never establish any momentum. Their offense kept us off the field for long stretches and we were never able to sustain anything.

Dale Lennon

We'll put a full rush on the punt team to establish protection and put a little stress on the snapper.

Karl Hobbs

We wanted to go into Pops and establish the inside position. We competed at all times, and at times our offense was magnificent.

Jim Amormino

With the gunman dead, we may never be able to establish a motive. Of course, only he knows that. We'll try investigative procedures. Again, it's going to be difficult. Once we look into his mental health, that may provide us some insight into what happened.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Brad Eldred

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did some things well and found out I still have some things to work on.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Alan Blaine

We've got some problems statewide. We had some hail storms come through in the last rain. I can't tell you how widespread. We've got some fields scattered around the state that are being replanted. They had been in the field for a month and a half.

William Shakespeare

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

Jane Cutler

We need time to get our fields developed.

Jerry Miller

Basically, we wanted to tell them when we say the fields are closed, we mean closed.

Charles Rangel

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Betty White

All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Pete Vagenas

We're right where we want to be. It would have been nice to score some goals (at home), but it was the first time a lot of us had gotten together in a long time. We're going to have to win on other fields at some point (in this tournament) -- we might as well start in the first round.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Don Shula

You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

William Wordsworth

We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.

Chris Brevi

We have two great linebackers leaving. Guys are hopefully going to fill their shoes.

Pierce Brosnan

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

Todd Pletcher

We were hoping that, as she got older, she would fill out and get stronger, ... Fortunately, that has been true. She has proven to run well at the longer distances.

Jim Ballinger

We're still trying to fill some events. We're still getting settled and then next week we'll hope to get better times and get some things going.

Tao Ching

When spring comes the grass grows by itself.

H. Hunt

The problem it had is that it was way before its time. There were no grass roots, no youth programs like there are today....There's no such thing as an instant major league.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Mike McBride

Having the stature that he has, you get a lot of people talking at him, but he doesn't react. Sooner or later, you got to get on the grass with him, and then he'll have you.

John Steffensen

He knows all about it and said if you do, it is going to pain your body. Running on the grass is tough, so it was too much of a risk, particularly with the international season just starting.

Tim McGee

He got a taste of the grass on the other side. And I don't necessarily say the grass wasn't greener.

William Rands

Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest

Ray Lewis

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Terrie Williams

We're working to meet immediate and possibly long-term needs for 1,000 or more evacuees, and still provide the necessary services to the people here in Clarksville we're already serving and will need to serve.

Paul Shaffer

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Phil Dow

I think if you're looking for immediate gratification, there's probably no place that's real safe to buy,

Gregory Campbell

Nevertheless our sympathies at this time will very much be with her immediate family.

Kevin Kelly

On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.

George Tenet

one of the most immediate threats the United States is likely to face.

Joseph Curran

From the discussions I've had, the immediate target is 'where are these tires and how many are involved, how many does Firestone think are involved, and what are we going to do about it,

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Doug Young

Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Japanese Proverb

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone

Shannon Lewis

The pavilion itself could be the costliest part of renovation of this site.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Peter Lombard

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Gene Luen Yang

My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.

Ken Kutaragi

Microsoft has put itself out of the game, ... Retailers in the US are already disappointed.

Joel Klein

Microsoft itself is responsible for where things stand today,

June Daugherty

Who knows? You never know. What you do know is you keep your staff and your team ready for the next opponent. It's going to sort itself out right after the Pac-10 tournament.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

George Vecsey

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rahul Dravid

He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

Yaya Toure

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Baruch Spinoza

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Tim McCarver

They have yet to come up with a remedy for that.

George Diller

It will take some time really to understand what to do to remedy the situation.

Publilius Syrus

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Dennis McBride

The time for talking is over; it?s time to remedy the situation,

Miguel de Cervantes

There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha

Hippocrates

Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

C. S. Lewis

What do they teach them at these schools?

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Carrie Preston

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

Carrie Brownstein

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

Carrie Underwood

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

Carrie Underwood

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Bill Burr

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.