Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Paul Johnson

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Scott Long

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Edward Brooke

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Andrew Kohut

The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.

Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

John Banville

The 9/11 attack was a huge and terrible thing but it was not unique. I come from a country where, if you put it in scale, some say 350,000 people would have died from the violence.

LaVonda Wagner

That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.

Carey Green

That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want to get to the free-throw line. We've got a goal to get to the free-throw line 30 times, and we didn't. ? There were fewer calls than we expected.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Douglas Kmiec

William H. Rehnquist is by nature quiet and humble. His legacy is that he has shown us how to disagree with civility.

Bob Bennett

You can disagree with the message, but don't shoot the messenger.

Bruce Wasserman

We are not recommending a merger with a small portal. Carl Icahn ... reserves the right to disagree with us.

Howard Rogers

We don't disagree with raising taxes; we disagree with the way they (commissioners) are doing it,

Liz Viering

My tax dollars are being used in a way that I disapprove of. I think a majority of Americans would disagree with what is happening with our tax dollars.

Wesley Clark

No administration has the right to tell Americans that to dissent is disloyal and to disagree is unpatriotic.

Gary Thayer

I wouldn't disagree with some of the things he said, but I don't know why he said those particular things at this time.

Karen Hughes

I expected a lot of people to disagree with our policy and they did,

Jeff Gundy

I don't think it's a fact, actually, ... I think he's the same weight that he has been, and the lighter for him has been the better. When he's been able to keep his weight about 305 (pounds), I think he's better served. But he has worked hard to be stronger. I hate to disagree with Steve once again, but so be it.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Cecil Taylor

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Carl Sagan

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

Antoni Tapies

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’re impinging on my private space,” I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn’t the SAT, Nora.

Barry McGuire

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Kathy Campbell

We don't take a percentage. They get the space.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Walead Beshty

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

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.