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.

Richard Clarke

On behalf of President Bush, we invite your involvement in drafting a national plan for information technology security. We in this country continue to be targets, and we have to defend our cyberspace.

Russell Verney

On behalf of every United States' citizens rights to a fair and open election, we are filing a lawsuit in federal court today charging our government, through their federal election commission, with interfering and tilting the election in favor of the Republicans and Democrats.

Clayton Wilcox

That's one of the things we're going to have to look at and tease out of the data. Are all of our efforts on behalf of low-performing kids hurting high-performing kids?

Don Nickles

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

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.

Martha Stewart

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

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.

Tracy Spiridakos

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Ismail Haniya

We have left the door open for the other brothers who have not yet decided, or who have decided not to join.

Liberty Ross

I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.

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.

Karen Sack

This is a way for the company?to continue to grow over time and I think it is a healthy strategy over time.

Hossam Bahgat

This is a regrettable escalation on the part of the government. On the other hand, it will encourage the judges to continue to speak out on the issue of judicial independence.

Jon Huntsman

This is a question of fairness, to my mind, and I'm going to continue talking about it to see what we can get accomplished.

Brian Dolan

This is going to be a short-term recovery. The dollar will continue to weaken in the next several days.

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.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

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.

Annie Lennox

Even in the '80s when people were gay, it was still difficult for them to come out, whereas nowadays, 20 years on, I think, um, we have a far more open-minded society that embraces the notion of homosexuality, and I think there was this doubt about my gender, you know, and at the time it possibly was controversial but... they missed my message, if you see what I mean, because for me it wasn't about a sexual issue, it was more of a feminist thing.

Barton Seaver

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

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.

Brian Orser

I was proud of what Jeff did and particularly proud of how young Shawn Sawyer skated, because I have worked with him a lot. Shawn handled himself so well through the entire Olympic experience.

Sol Jones

I was proud of the focus and intensity that we were able to keep defensively throughout the first half and the entire game.

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.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

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.

Pat Riley

To be honest, at the end of a game like that, I would have liked it to end quietly, but the fans like it.

Joe Pavelski

To win in front of our fans and to give them something back is special.

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.

Bible Bible

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

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?

Sue Davis

Father Grace has shown up for 'Pray for Snow' parties.

Poncho Sanchez

I started on timbales. I had a friend who had a little Latin jazz band. His father made the timbales for us, so I learned to play on them.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Stella Adler

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

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.

Charles Spurgeon

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

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.

Thomas Merton

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

Tim Tebow

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Ron Fournier

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

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.

Lizette Hernandez

I didn't want him to ride, but oh, my God, he loved them.

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.

Fiona Shaw

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Isabel Allende

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Jeff Lindsay

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

George William Curtis

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George S. Patton

There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

Jean-Claude Juncker

One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.

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.

David Greenberg

They can be done in a short 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 Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Sylvester Stallone

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Bob Storman

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

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

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.

Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

Jim DeMint

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

Jenny Frost

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Glenn Beck

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

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.

Fidel Castro

Thank you Fidel Castro, thank you for existing.

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.

Robert Burns

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

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.

N. T. Wright

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

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.

Melanie Lynskey

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.