Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Gilberto Gil

The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces the church is almost a park.

Brian Jordan

As long as my knee is healthy, I'm not worried about the competition. Right now, my knee is almost there. I need to stay on schedule and keep getting strong. Once I'm full speed, I know I can play the outfield.

Jon Lester

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

George Santayana

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

John Gomery

a small group driven by Liberal interests and personal greed almost effortlessly breached walls built to separate politicians from the treasury.

Brian Phillips

That was 28 years ago. People are wrongfully arrested from time to time. He somehow managed to pass an entire federal background check and remain in service for almost 30 years.

David Bryant

Ragtime' is almost like doing an opera. The voices have to be amazing,

Byron White

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Carolyn Strauss

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Rick Hutcheon

It was very narrow, it was very focused and very dangerous. It was a rally that was built on very modest underpinnings. You knock out any one of those legs and you're in trouble.

Jerry Graybeal

It was very, very difficult. Over the years we've built a pretty good relationship and this was not something I enjoyed doing.

Peter Graf

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable. All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

Peter Graf

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

Richard Chapman

These companies realize most of the new homes are being built on the west side. They realize, in terms of costs and logistics and the way the market's growing in the Southwest Valley, that they need some presence there.

Anthony Coley

These children have built their lives in this country, and we must not hold them in a Catch-22 that is not of their own making.

Larry Lewis

These pumps were built when gas was less than $1 a gallon, ... No one would have dreamed of $3 a gallon then.

Ben Johnson

The things that are working here are locally driven right now.

Brian Wilson

What they do, they do well. They are pretty goal driven and work hard.

Phil Keoghan

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Evelyn Lauder

I've always been a person who is driven.

Ella Eyre

My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Lisa Kleypas

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Scott Owens

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

Sergio Garcia

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Annie Dillard

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Andy Stanley

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Andrew Vachss

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Thomas S. Monson

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Thomas Carlyle

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Steve Lawson

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Kenneth Prewitt

are groups not likely to use the Internet.

Edward Lincoln

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Bill Cowher

I've been waiting a long time to do this. This is yours, man. This is special group of coaches, a special group of players and I was a small part.

Kevin Wilson

Things have changed; we have a different group there. We have to put them (offensive linemen) in better positions, and we're going to do that as a team.

Joe Bline

This is a tremendous run for any group of kids.

Shelia Smith

This is the first time we have ever reached the second round here. This is a different group than what we've had in the past, but we still seemed a little nervous today.

Lao Tzu

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

John Orgren

This group of 60-year-olds is probably the healthiest and wealthiest group of so-called retirees ever.

Karin Leary

This group knew they would not be making the trip upstate if they lost today and that was huge for them. They knew this could be it and they were not going to let that happen. They know where they want to go.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

S. Walker

You have to go in and find out what their interests are, and take it from there.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

Bob Davis

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Muriel Humphrey

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Thomas Mallon

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adamss diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Susan Cain

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Damon Lindelof

Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Samuel Liles

We're a small congregation, but we're not going to let this turn us around.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Lance Henriksen

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Michael Myers

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.

Michael Keaton

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.