Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Hugh Evans

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Scott Taylor

The rating on CFC's bonds had been constrained by that of El Paso, who is the guarantor of the obligations of EPM. Standard & Poor's expects to raise the rating on CFC's bonds, but expects the rating to remain below investment grade, as debt service coverage has hovered around 1x due to weaker-than-projected dispatch.

Vinton Cerf

There are a plethora of domain name servers which are below our level of visibility, and we have nothing to say about how those machines are operated.

Charles Baudelaire

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

Deanna Anderson

We've had it when it's 20 below and people still go out there.

Larry Lee

We had 60 one day, we had below freezing, we've had spring. We've had every season right here.

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Steve Martin

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

Tim Ferriss

Exercise is overrated.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

Sonia Sotomayor

I accept the proposition that... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives -- no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging, I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

Tim Burton

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Thomas Jefferson

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

Thomas Jefferson

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Marsilio Ficino

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

O. J. Simpson

We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Anna Jameson

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Robert McKee

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

Robert Greene

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

Robert Henri

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Simon Hoggart

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Richard Branson

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Timothy McVeigh

I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control.

Richard Branson

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Sri Chinmoy

Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.