Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Kelly

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

Bonnie Tyler

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.

Red Adair

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

Felicity Kendal

I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

Bertrand Russell

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Bertrand Russell

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Bertrand Russell

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.

Ted Roof

That was a great day for us. I thought our kids played really well. We had a lot of belief that day and belief is a powerful tool.

Faye White

We need to have the same belief as they do, but when Vic Akers took over as manager the gulf between ourselves and the leading German sides was huge. Now it's not.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Wyclef Jean

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ellie Goulding

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Brooke Adams

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Daniel Kahneman

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

Dean Geyer

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career.

Barack Obama

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Nayvadius Cash

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

Joyce Cary

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Ken Starr

We were guided by Sam Dash, who had very strong views on that.

Rob Grady

We're taking the tuner and guide and moving it down to the desktop.

Pat Merrill

We're really lacking a comprehensive plan that guides us.

Bob Dylan

Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.

Ronda Rousey

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

Karen Johnson

Those are things we've been moving toward for years. Kids won't see big changes. We've been meeting guidelines and those nutritional standards for a long time.

Mike Federico

We don't have many (seniors). But we'll look to them all season to guide us and get us to state.

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.

Ian Mckellen

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

David Friedman

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

John Morrison

We have to walk a tight line to get what we want. It keeps my mind off farming.

Miley Cyrus

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Frank Kelly

You kind of feel a little sorry for the guy. What keeps going through my mind is (growing up) he could look out his window and see the cemetery, and there he is three years after he lived there, back in that cemetery. It really wasn't much of a life.

Jim Montgomery

I think the theaters are wise to find a specialty, something that is their forte, that they can then sell or entice theatergoers to come to because that's what they're looking for. You'd be nuts not to give it to them. It keeps the theater alive.

John Salmons

When it keeps happening, it shows that we're not learning from our mistakes. We keep doing the same things, and that's the frustrating part.

Megan Mires

Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we are over there.

Henrik Lundqvist

When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.

Hesham Qandil

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Albert Einstein

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

John C. Reilly

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.