Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Kramer

This is the first example I can think of that gives the natural state of the coastline back to the people, rather than taking it away.

I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.

Henry Spencer

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

Marvin Sapp

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

Brian Billick

We have a great example for the young guys. He placed that much value at one more opportunity.

Diego Maradona

You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.

Ross Mathews

When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.

Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Ed Anderson

We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is influence.

John C. Maxwell

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Larry Holmes

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Eric Schmidt

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Eric Schmidt

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, Ill figure it out.

Nelson Mandela

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Josh Elliott

Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.

Mark Olson

Big Love. It's really an odd way to look at marriage.

Richard Eyre

Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

Ashley Wagner

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

Michelle Obama

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Matthew Davis

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Mark Shields

All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate Obama had it on his side in 2008. The Democrats had it on their side in 2006. The enthusiasm, the intensity, the passion was all on their side.

Marina Tsvetaeva

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

Marina Abramovic

You create a friendship on a level that you've never done before. The basic kind of experience is to basically give love to total strangers all the time, and that really changed everything in me. And this piece transformed me more than any other one before. I saw my entire life differently. What do I have to do? What is my passion on this planet? I'm much more focused than I ever was before.

Ken Leonard

That's what you want to get your program to, but we still have to prove it,

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.