Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Kotzer

More often, it's the lawyers who have to work it out. And once a lawyer gets between your kids -- say the lawyer sends a letter to a sister on behalf of a brother -- their relationship won't be the same anymore.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

Greg Miller

We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.

Suzanne Somers

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

David Kay

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

Larry Bucshon

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

Kai Holm

We are deeply moved that you've given us your confidence to host the 2009 session...on behalf of my people, my government, my organization, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Ira Glass

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Robert Wilson

My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

Marshall Faulk

One of my brothers is fine. I just haven't heard from my (two) other brothers and the rest of my family - aunts, uncles, cousins. I haven't heard from anyone,

Jamie Lynn Spears

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

Mohammed Deif

He was shot by our brothers with a 7 mm pistol ... which was the only pistol that we had.

Denis O'Hare

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Derrick Rose

It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Marc Morial

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Jalal Talabani

You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Ahmed Plummer

This is definitely an opportunity to come back and just help these guys continue what they've been able to accomplish.

Arun Sarin

This is an important step forward. It will enable us to continue to outperform our competitors.

Michael Capellas

This is an important milestone, particularly given the significance of Europe to us. We will continue to work with regulators around the world in satisfying their requirements.

Dave Hager

This is an exciting and meaningful opportunity for Kerr-McGee. The Chinook field has outstanding rock quality, and its potential could expand as we continue our appraisal program to delineate the full extent of the reservoir.

Cindy Heuer

He spent a lot of years devoted to his family. There was never a break.

Matt Ridley

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

Thomas Wilson

Shawn was a very devoted man and husband who went about doing his duty in a very quiet, humble way,

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Karen Lee

Curtis had been hospitalized on and off for the past six months. Nine months ago his right leg was amputated. Living as a quadriplegic was an extremely difficult experience -- but he kept going.

Sha Zukang

Controlling tobacco is a long-term, difficult and complicated public health task, it is also a social and economic issue that needs a strong policy.

Timothy Gardner

a tricky, difficult type of study to conduct, controlling all the factors, with very interesting results.

Hu Jintao

At the moment Sino-Japanese relations face a difficult situation. Such a difficult situation is not one we want to see,

David Axelrod

At the end of the day I think people understand that relationships are difficult sometimes.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Katie Chang

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Thomas Lennon

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.

Larry Dean

We are doing everything we can do in Bossier Parish to reach out and touch the needs of the people in the entire state,

Clara Shih

My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

David Carr

I was talking to those guys (with the Colts) the other day, and I think they lost five preseason games. But they aren't down. They're fired up. They want to get out there with their No. 1s and play an entire game just like we do.

Herbie Hancock

But in jazz, the song may be written by somebody else, but how you treat it is entirely with your notes and your expression.

John Amos

We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. We have an opportunity to get it right and that's important to the entire nation.

Ray Nagin

Let me just say it one more time and make sure everybody understands it ... We will rebuild this entire city,

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Jarvis Green

Every time he made a play you heard the fans yelling and that pumped us up, ... He is the same old guy.

Brian Boyle

We've had red and white fans screaming at us before.

Chuck Darby

Every team thinks of their fans as the 12th Man. I don't see why it's a big deal. The 12th Man is our fans, and they made a difference.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Calvin Murphy

We will play with a lot of pride. We will give the fans a good show.

Sadaharu Oh

This was for all of the fans back home in Japan.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Adam Sandler

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Adam Sandler

My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

Abraham Verghese

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Bram Stoker

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Rajneesh

Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a sinner, that you are meant to be a saint. If you are a sinner it is only because of your unconsciousness; you are not a sinner because the society follows a certain morality and you are not following it.

Melissa Marr

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Matthew Arnold

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

Kevin Frandsen

He's wearing a Giants uniform, and I'm playing for his team, too.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Tariq Ramadan

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Tariq Ramadan

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

T. S. Eliot

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Louis Kronenberger

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Rig Veda

People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all.

Audrey Johnson

When he saw her, he meant to have her. That was what he always said. He just loved my mother.

Rachel Remen

I did this because the person I loved wanted it.

Freddy Mella

They loved the idea and I have been registered with them since September.

Charles Evans Hughes

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Jill Lepore

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

Howard Zinn

[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

Howard Zinn

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

Howard Gardner

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

Horace

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Hannah Arendt

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Harold Nicolson

These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

Javier Solana

We would like very much to support President Abbas at this period of time. This is what we are going to do today.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Dr. Seuss

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Amy Tan

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Swami Vivekananda

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

John Milton

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

Kevin Watkins

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

Marianne Williamson

Family... a group experience of love and support.

Ian Brown

What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?

Homer

Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

Gloria Steinem

Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

Giordano Bruno

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

H. L. Mencken

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Plato

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Gordon B. Hinckley

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paula Abdul

And I have been taught never, never to lie,

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Ed Young

Father, thank you for the thrill that is in the air.

Vin Diesel

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Michael Buble

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies.

Karen McCrary

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Grenville Kleiser

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

John Carmack

I'd thank you all for the award, and I'm still at it.