Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Heighton

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

Larry Gossett

Elite politicians ... have awakened a sleeping giant. Everybody, we're all united in this effort to get comprehensive immigrant rights.

Thomas Moran

During the night I was awakened by a wolf crunching the bones of a rabbit we had eaten. He was not more than 12 feet from where we were lying, and it being moonlight, I saw him clearly.

Samuel Johnson

Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int

Tony Kee

The title Prince of Persia: Warrior Within clearly reflects who the new Prince is ? an awakened Master Warrior. He's not the young, inexperienced Prince he was on his first adventure. He is now a warrior of unmatched skills, with a dark heart and a penchant for pain. Knowing his fated death is imminent, the Prince must summon the powers within him to defend what no enemy can take away ? his life.

Angelus Silesius

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Allen Blakemore

We have awakened the sleeping giant. Everybody knows he is a very accomplished and very tenacious campaigner and will win handily.

William Cartwright

There are two births: the one when lightFirst strikes the new awakened sense;The other when two souls unite,And we must count our life from thence,When you loved me and I loved you,Then both of us were born anew.

William Cartwright

There are two births: the one when light First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Kevin Dineen

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Manny Fernandez

Thirty wins usually only comes with a real No. 1 guy. You have to play a lot of games to get to 30, obviously. That puts me in a real elite group.

Lofa Tatupu

You can't let this opportunity pass. You've got give it everything you've got for the next month. Man, that's an elite group to go to the Super Bowl.

Shawn Williams

They're a top, elite team. They accomplished something great, too.

Michael Bush

It's a big game for the school. It'll get a lot of recruits in. It kind of lets people know that we're trying to be one of the elite teams in the country, just like Virginia Tech is. I think this program can go all the way to the top. We're getting a lot of good players in and great coaches. I don't think we're too far off.

Bobby Burton

The big thing for Texas is that it's an elite class. They selected more than they recruited in state. I can't remember saying that about any teams in the state of Texas.

Len Elmore

That pair is in very elite company. I think we've seen more gifted inside-outside tandems, but you'd have to search long and hard to find a more polished pair.

LeBron James

The third quarter was a disaster. They put pressure on us and we couldn't make shots. If we want to be an elite team, we can't let teams come back like that.

Jennifer Joyce

The Texas relays is one of the premier meets in the country-we've got a small squad here, 25 athletes-our elite group.

Ali Noorani

It's not just immigrant rights that are at stake anymore, it's all citizens' rights that are at stake.

Harry Pachon

an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.

Steve Camarota

Any suggestion that immigrants and natives do fundamentally different kinds of work is just silly.

Vicki Cintra

It would be impossible without immigrant labor. People can no longer turn their faces.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Dave Penry

There are only enough workers if we look to the immigrant population, and we want legal immigrants.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

Joe Torre

I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Dave Adams

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented,

Carolyn Clark

It's better than sleeping with the mosquitoes and the bugs. I'll take anything to get there.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Evan Osnos

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.