Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hall

Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Bill Newton

This was one of the most shameful and arrogant acts ever committed against consumers.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

David Paulson

What you're looking for there is whether the operator clearly understood the nature and quality of his acts and that they were likely to result in great bodily injury, ... Was he aware of the likely consequences of his actions?

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Dani Shapiro

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Edward Fitzgerald

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

E. B. White

I remembered the gun I had beneath my seat.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

Tim Woolston

It's symptomatic of issues going on beneath the surface. They're still trying to get their house in order. Their stock hasn't been doing very well.

Mack McLarty

This move is vintage Jerry Jones. Signing Terrell Owens is stunning in a lot of ways, but not when you know Jerry. He's always been bold, but beneath his larger-than-life personality, he's very, very thoughtful and creative.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

Robert Graves

You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.

Pedro Noguera

The fact is if a hurricane hit any urban city, you would have seen the same thing, ... Poverty is right beneath the surface.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's impact on the Twins organization, state of Minnesota and upper Midwest is significant and goes well beyond his role in helping the Twins win two world championships.

John Tyndall

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Derek Feltner

Jake and I are beyond the point of telling each other what we want to do. I know it sounds strange, but we just know each other.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Marco Coleman

I would say the difference between Coughlin and a guy like Marty was Coughlin took it a little beyond the football field,

The Committee

Journalists have become extremely important democracy advocates and they will have impact beyond actually what we will see today,

Richard Grasso

I think it is way beyond that at this juncture.

Jim Cameron

It can't be fixed. It's beyond the stage of tweaking.

Wes Miller

I always dreamed of playing in this tournament and here at Greensboro. It is still beyond even what I imagined it could be.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

William Shakespeare

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Gerard Hopkins

That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ben Okri

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Hal Sutton

God shined on us today with this good weather. He knows this is a good cause.

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

William Golding

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Joe Orton

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Megan Duffy

It's March Madness and its tournament time and we are going to play for our lives. We needed this win big time and this is what I live for.

Ed Perlmutter

It's madness, but you also have people speaking on your behalf.

Marguerite Duras

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

Naguib Mahfouz

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

R. D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

Tupac Shakur

There ain't no place like paradise.

Marcel Proust

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Jacque Fresco

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Matthew Fox

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Bob Cimmino

I was a little more patient with him after that.

Gail Dudack

We have to be patient with this recovery. It's not going to be a youthful one; it will be a slow, lumbering one.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

Rocky Peterson

I could see we started off intense, but tight. We were patient offensively, but not aggressive.

Warren Buffett

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

William Kamkwamba

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Tony Snow

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Edward Miller

Patients who are receiving therapies, come here for hope, are not going to be able to receive that because of this issue.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Charlie Brown

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

John Tory

Even the rules that are in place are not being followed.

Kevin McGrath

We all have to live within the rules.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.