Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Perry

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

Ismail Kadare

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

Irene Joliot-Curie

The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.

William Cavendish

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.

Warren De la Rue

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Chuck Palahniuk

If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

David Limbaugh

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.

Donald Norman

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Vidya Balan

I dress according to the requirement of the film, as a true actor. Off the camera, I'm just me. I have my preferences and my personal style. Before I step out, I look into the mirror just to confirm that my style is intact. Beyond this, it doesn't matter.

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Ezra Taft Benson

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

David A. Bednar

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

Joe Hart

The police were here 60 seconds after they attempted to break in.

Tony Blair

The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

David MacGregor

The $20 bid was a little bit of a surprise. It reflects a high level of conviction in synergies and sends a pre-emptive signal to other bidders.

Malcolm Speed

We have already received bids from six to seven countries who are willing to play host to the (Twenty-20) event.

J. Horton

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

Charles Sanders

We have two bids in each side. As far as I'm concerned that's very good.

Craig Hamilton

We'll put the project out to bid and carefully examine the bids when they come in.

Mindy Chambers

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

Charles Cook

We reviewed documentation. Mr. Lee had the lowest bid on four of the five contracts.

Cheryl Hines

My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it.

D. James

Whoever likes Jordan is going to bid high.

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Irving Paul Lazar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Irena Sendler

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

Najib Razak

The policy of constructive engagement has shown some dividends but not as much as we had hoped.

Marcus Samuelsson

I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Mustafa Akyol

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

Patricia Birch

The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

Octavio Paz

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Daniel Pipes

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Victor Robinson

Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved.

Andy Stern

We are not trying to divide the labor movement, we are trying to rebuild it,

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Andy Hill

We have underachieved. We have failed at every opportunity to make the big play; that's what's gotten us. We've been spending a lot of time on fundamentals, and we're going to have to keep on doing that because we have young kids.

Mark Kotsay

We had opportunities to score more than two runs, ... and we failed to get it done.

Ozzie Guillen

We have the type of team that executes all the time and that's our game. We failed today at moving the guys over.

Kevin Keane

You can always work off last year. You can be happy, but anything can happen in the playoffs, so you'd kind of like to take it to the next level, step it up in the playoffs. That's what we failed to do (last year).

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Randall Kennedy

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

Phil Klay

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.

Michael Giacchino

I worried during the first show that it would all be too campy, ... But this week, it was really a tough, genuine competition, and it's getting more and more exciting.

James Marsden

You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

John Lloyd

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

Paul Sergeant

We hope these will find their way to genuine fans.

Peter Hill

People were very proud of it and very complimentary, genuinely so. It has given us a greater sense of purpose than perhaps we had before.

Morgan Ensberg

Because they know it's genuine, ... If it was something that looked like it was staged or premeditated, it wouldn't be anything. It's genuine when it happens.

Michael Greene

Jon was a joy to work with last year and demonstrated a real passion for the music and genuine understanding of his job as host.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Richard Stapler

We get a lot of input from groups and individuals in the industry to keep this a front-burner issue for us.

Jeffrey Osborne

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Richard Turner

We'll meet with the various groups to make sure that all sensitivity of the memorial is taken into consideration,

John Oates

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

Richard Young

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Nancy Bragg

The purpose is to recognize groups that have been involved in the community.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Cecelia Ahern

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Carrie Brownstein

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Arsene Wenger

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

Anton Corbijn

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Gaston Gaudio

I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.