Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

David Healy

The 1982 team is legendary in Northern Ireland but this match against England is our chance to record a victory of that magnitude,

Mitch Wilkins

That was a key swing there. The breaks just didn't go our way tonight and a few of the calls that went against us really kept us from being able to play our game.

Judy Shaubach

That was a huge win for us against a real quality team. Ashley pitched a very good game and Jocelyn (Medina) came up with the big hit.

Tom Sawyer

That was a huge win for them at their place. Their other two wins came against teams that aren't as good, but they are still wins.

Tina Deese

That was a great first day of SEC play. The key now will be to keep it up Sunday and close out the series with a sweep of Kentucky. That will be a challenge against a hungry Wildcat club.

Chauncey Billups

That was a good win. We had a big win (Tuesday night against Dallas) with a lot of emotion and we were able to push that all aside and focus on this one. That was good by us.

Irene Joliot-Curie

It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.

Goldie Hawn

I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

Jose Guillen

We have a happy team. We had a great group of guys last year. There was a great chemistry in that clubhouse, and we don't want any distractions.

Carlos Boozer

We've got really good chemistry right now with this group. It's unfortunate that time is running out.

Jack Schweers

We've made some adjustments and move some people around. You hope the chemistry can come back. We'll see how it works.

Peter Wright

We're where we need to be right now. Our chemistry is good.

Paul Sabatier

My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

Michael Holmes

We have a lot of chemistry going on. We know what to do right now and have what it takes to win.

Randy Reed

Michael is the most unselfish player I have ever coached. His passion is team chemistry and that has made us a better team.

Allan Payne

The 40,000 spectators will see spectacle of fast-running, exciting sevens rugby.

George Steinbrenner

That was the only exciting thing that happened today.

Dontaye Draper

That was real exciting because we weren't expecting it. He just wanted us to play hard, don't worry about anything and just get this 'W.' That's what we did.

Russ Howard

The 10th end man, exciting - a real finish.

Joe Sakic

We have to worry about a playoff spot. We've had a pretty good year, got a lot of wins. The way the game is being played now, especially with the shootouts, a lot of the teams out west are good teams. It makes for an exciting race.

Reed Hastings

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Sebastian Stan

Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.

Paul Fleischman

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

Patrick Kavanagh

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Bill Vaughan

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Lukata Mjumbe

The applicants will still be responsible for their bills. The program will only help them up until March.

E. O. Wilson

The association earns money by helping to sell them and working at the store on the day of the event.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Rick Clark

We need to have some time to get some practice in now. We need to get a little rest and work on our timing.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Dan Miller

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Mark Patton

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

Gary Gray

It's sort of a research update. We give growers an update of what practices seem to be most beneficial.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Dave Ramsey

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

Gary Pearson

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.

Ryan Diggs

We were all pumped up at the start of overtime. I thought we had the momentum. I was never nervous.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Jason Caron

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all week.

Mike Connolly

I was pumped up for the game. I just went out there and tried to do the same thing I've been doing all year.

Mike Connolly

I was pumped up for the game, ... I just went out there and tried to do the same thing I've been doing all year.

Torii Hunter

Sometimes I get so pumped up, I get a headache. I get woozy. I get dizzy. I like that feeling, I don't know why.

Daniel Matsumoto

They were pumped up all week in practice.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Bob Consalvo

We've got our gold-plated shovels shined and ready for the groundbreaking.

Tom Slater

We're very young, with 17 newcomers, so it's especially important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to get us ready for the SEC season.

Gary Hart

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Prince Royce

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Andy Hernandez

Most of (the protests) are immigrant-driven marches. That's why you haven't had any big ones in San Antonio.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Albert Pujols

winning and getting back to the World Series and getting a ring.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Bill Hader

My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'

Kevin Na

I was thinking, I can make a three-shot swing here, ... I can make eagle, or he makes bogey, and that's at least a two-shot swing.

Kosuke Fukudome

My swing was much better today than it has been.

Dan Jenkins

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Greg Walker

When he was on opposing teams, we actually used his swing to teach off of. Some of the things he does, we talked about for two years ... so we know his swing pretty good.

Nelson Castleberry

He can swing it like that if he is patient.

Buddy Bell

I don't know what to say. We didn't swing the bats.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Arsene Wenger

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

Arsene Wenger

One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Roy Oswalt

The 20 wins is nice, but it's a whole lot better that this team is in the playoffs,

Craig Biggio

The '98 team was probably the most disappointing.

Aaron Small

The 7-0 thing is nice, but more importantly, it's a team win,

Jim Pace

That was the most disappointing thing about this game. We have a veteran team and we should know what to do in those situations.

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.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.