Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.

Evangeline Lilly

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

Doc Hastings

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Ken Bacon

The pay is now going up about 3.5, 3.7 percent a year, more than the rate of inflation, and that's built into the five-year plan. So pay is improving.

Anne Wilson Schaef

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Brunello Cucinelli

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Christopher McDougall

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Denis Villeneuve

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Nina Easton

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

Ben Carson

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Richard Branson

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Ian Shepherdson

It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usually at similar levels,

Rita Ora

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Bill Bryson

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Peter Schuyler

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Phil Klay

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

Igor Ivanov

The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means,

John Reid

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq, ... until the job is done.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,

George Voinovich

We have to really level with the American people, ... This is not going to be over in two years ... we're not going to just be able to walk out of Iraq and this is going to be over.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Pierce Brosnan

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general. This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Eric Beder

I think people are a little nervous about turnarounds in general, ... This is probably the largest turnaround ever tried in retail, and people are impatient.

Roland Betts

It doesn't matter if the firms that respond are the largest or the most best-known around the world. We are looking for excitement, creativity, energy.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cecelia Ahern

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

Bertrand Russell

The saviors of the world, society's last hope.

Jim Edmonds

The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here.

Charles Hayward

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.

Thomas Carter

That was it, that was the last straw,

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

David Horsey

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Donald Trump

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Kevin Constantine

That will be very rare and very welcome. It's been very unusual when we've had to do that.

Dale Lindsey

When he's 100 percent, he has rare talent athletically.

E. B. White

This was a scary and rare occurrence, not a pattern.

John McCarthy

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

James E. Rogers

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Bertrand Russell

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Eric Frankel

We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV,

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

William Shakespeare

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

Baz Luhrmann

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Patricia Schroeder

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.