Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherynne M. Valente

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

Johnny Griffin

For him to run would be akin to him admitting he is a terrorist,

Mike McCurry

This president has an especially difficult time admitting he's wrong, so when it happens, it probably has greater significance, but he's got such a long list of complex problems now because of Katrina and other things, this is probably the least of his worries, to be humble enough to admit error." ()

Scott Weiss

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Kelly Moore

The bottom line is when you're caught admitting a crime on tape, there are no explanations that can get you out of it,

Christopher Shays

a real sense of arrogance. Loyalty and never admitting a mistake matters more than the truth. It has a Nixon feel to me.

M. Wolfe

A critical part of improving the system for drug safety is remembering, admitting and learning from past mistakes.

Keith Olbermann

Powell finishes his answer, admitting much of the information he had been given about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was-

Trinny Woodall

I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Doug Herzog

We always hold out hope against hope. We would very much relish the opportunity to be back in real business with Dave.

Felipe Roque

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

Stephen Decatur

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway,

Rich Dalrymple

We also wanted to have it during a big game against a tradition rival like the Redskins.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

Tom Kennedy

The other possibility is that there have been several appeals to the public for information. Police, within just a few days of making this public appeal, got more than 1,300 telephone calls from the public.

Nick Harkaway

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

Malvinder Singh

We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appeals for the federal circuit.

George Washington

We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.

Dave Smith

It's a stretch. She has the name-face recognition but her major appeals are comfort, lightness, a real sense of personality, which are not necessarily the kinds of qualities that translate into evening and breaking news.

Carol Hamilton

(This ad) appeals to the intended audience. That's pretty good. It doesn't always happen.

Ron Moore

This is a change from our normal process. Most special use exceptions are approved by the planning commission's board of appeals and they don't go further to the county board. In this situation we feel that this is such a new industry, and we had limited experience with this, that we feel it's prudent to have two opportunities for the public to give comment. And so the county board will give their final approval on this.

Dave Williams

It?s not something that appeals to me. It?s quirky. But I?m glad to see it out here in public and changing all the time.

Robert Lande

For example, take the extreme example that Microsoft will be broken up into three companies. That won't happen until the appeals are exhausted. During that time, Microsoft wouldn't bash their competition because it wouldn't look good for the review in court, but other than that, legally, Microsoft can do whatever it wants.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

John Cholakis

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

Steve Hall

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

William Gray

The people who have a bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't so. These are natural cycles.

Jack Straw

We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,

Kevin McClatchy

There are certain players who I think haven't progressed, and we need those players to grow. Put on top of that that we have a slew of young players coming into this thing, and I think Dave just wanted to make the decision to get the best person we can to help these guys continue to develop and evolve. Some can make the argument we didn't do that this year.

Bruce Arena

When we demonstrate ratings, we will have an argument for prime time.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Anthony Zinni

There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.

John Abizaid

There are certainly considerations that we must make with regard to the level of the forces,

Kevin Morooney

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

David Nussbaum

There are certainly a lot of creative entrepreneurial companies in New York,

Dean Owens

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're in a legal proceeding with the players' association and the Eagles and the management council. We hope it doesn't come to that. I certainly hope, as a result of this, we'll hear from the Eagles and they'll welcome him back.

Ed Bond

Where lands would be compatible and appropriate, we'd certainly look at those. The program makes sense from Sierra Pacific's standpoint.

Luca Parmitano

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Glen Davis

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

William Shakespeare

For I am nothing if not critical.

Mike Umaga

With what Doncaster offer and the way they attack, we feel Jon is a stronger defensive option than Dave. It's all about timing as well - Jon wants to go out and prove a few critics wrong, but he knows he still has a few things to work on.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Cliff Curtis

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

Tie Domi

People had their opinions, but I think those critics should be looking in the mirror. It's great to see all three of them impressing. They're living their dream (playing in Toronto) right now.

Jay Carr

A few critics said, 'I want to write on such and such,'

Eric McCormack

Some television critics don't like us anymore, ... Well, maybe you don't, but our peers do!" ()

Eric McCormack

Some television critics don't like us anymore," ()

Charles Harris

The reasons most often given are that lists are arbitrary, and reflect the tastes of the people putting them together - or that they are elitist with rankings.

Harmony Korine

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

Kim Deal

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Douglas Coupland

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

Diane Warren

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

Beck

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Athenaeus

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Niger Innis

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Charles Lamb

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar

George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself

Kevin Hallinan

It's not something that would have been seen at the gate. The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Carson Palmer

It's not offensive, it's harmless. He's just being Chad. He's being himself and doing what comes to his head.

Tony Stewart

For a kid like him to put himself even into that position was pretty remarkable.

Phaedrus

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Troy Robinson

We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened,

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Joe Torre

Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.

Brian Sanderoff

Americans are quite divided, but it seems as if they are looking for a solution that involves some sort of legal documentation.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Kim Keelor

A planning study is under way that involves widening Duplex to a three-lane typical section.

Patrick Driessen

Successful self-development also involves taking more self-time to be quiet and think for oneself!

Mayor Giuliano

Is it a perfect project? Show me one that is. Is it expensive? You bet, but sometimes doing the right thing involves sacrifice.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Tibor Fischer

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Bill Mumy

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Casey Neistat

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

Edward Furlong

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Edwin Starr

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Bob Geldof

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined

Charlie Worsham

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky actor.

Larry Jansen

We refer to them as the lucky 13.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Monica Crowley

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Chris Bolt

Third place is very satisfying. We've had some tough seasons and to have the seniors go out like this is awesome.

Joe Blodgett

For a lot of individuals it would've been over. She was not going to end her season on the bench.

Eric Schmidt

It's only one game. There's a long season ahead, and our section is pretty balanced.

Randy Rice

This is the oddest season I've ever been through. Not because of the co-op. But it's been one thing after another.

Tiara Cook

There's been nothing. It did get boring. You're not supposed to have a senior season like this. But you go on.

Brian Daubach

There's a lot of season left. We haven't started yet. It's not the 25 you start with. It's the 25 you end the season with.

Pat Hill

It was sort of the story of our season down the stretch.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

Andrew Mitchell

There don't seem to be any surprises in here.

Ken Koelbl

As I watched, it didn't seem like they missed.

Maureen McClay

As we look at it now, it doesn't seem to work for us.

Mark Hatton

It's just didn't seem like that. We got the shots off.

Janet Anderson

It's just really unfortunate that there seems to be shortsightedness in this whole situation.

Scott Gomez

It seems like it's early. But it isn't. We need these points.

Jeffrey Cohen

It seems like a wonderful thing to do.

Jim Smith

It seems like a simple business. But it's as complicated as it can get.

Rick Riordan

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

George Bernard Shaw

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

John Rhys-Davies

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

Friedrich Schiller

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Robert Plant

The 50s were great because I collected stamps.

Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Yehuda Amichai

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Lionel Blue

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Source Unknown

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Thomas Watson

THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.