Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Mark Valley

I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

John Wozniak

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

Ridley Scott

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

Adora Nweze

This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.

Stephanie Herseth

This is a terrific opportunity to shine a spotlight on important issues surrounding Black Hills National Forest, including forest health and wildfire prevention. Ensuring appropriate forest policy is essential not only to preserving South Dakota's wonderful natural resources, but to our tourism and economy as well.

Lee Peterson

This is a terrible situation and we need to have compassion. The truth is Black people died not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco,

Gene Kimmelman

This is the government making your TV go black and then only paying part of the costs for some of the people to make it work again, and none of the costs for others.

Russlynn Ali

This is the first time I've heard (O'Connell) say the gap is huge and that we're serving our white kids well, but we have a long way to go with black and brown children.

Keating Holland

So the pressure is on Kerry to meet expectations. And let's not forget the good news for the White House in this poll: Bush is still seen as a stronger leader who would better deal with Iraq and terrorism,

Edward Kennedy

The victims of Katrina have lost everything, and now President Bush says it is OK for them to lose their fair wages, too.

Tony Crescenzi

The rhetoric over the fiscal stimulus package heated up this weekend, reducing the likelihood of passage, ... In what may become a famous remark, President Bush said that Congress would 'raise taxes over my dead body.'

Jin Canrong

There will still be trade disputes with the Bush administration, but it's unlikely these disputes will increase. The same goes for human rights.

Doug Hattaway

This is a retro-pick showing that Bush is ruled by the powerful special interests that dominate his party.

Mark Mellman

This is an issue that should be raised often because it is a central preoccupation of very large numbers of Americans and because people now look at the Republican program, the Bush program, as being a disaster.

James Awad

This is a tactic. In the very short term, it will be highly positive for the markets. But what's gonna happen here is you're going to see a cat and mouse game between Bush and Iraq for some time.

Grover Norquist

This is not just a job about monetary policy anymore. Whoever Bush picks will be seen as a great economic spokesperson, period.

Dennis Hastert

This is no time to pick a leader who is weak on the war and wrong on taxes. George W. Bush is a strong leader with the right vision for America,

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Jane Austen

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Ben Jonson

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Siddha Nagarjuna

Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

David Wu

Together, we will not fail Oregonians, ... Oregon will be prepared, and they will receive the competence and compassion from government they should expect.

Alex Steffen

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

Dalai Lama

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

John Shimkus

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Fadel Gheit

Our economic dependence on oil is much less than it was even 10 years ago. If inflation comes, it won't be as big a hit as it was in the '80s.

Ted Stevens

American dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security,

Sherwood Boehlert

This bill, more so than any provision in the recently-enacted energy bill, will lessen that dependence,

Bobby Bowden

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Ashley Lloyd

Any situation where you could have died and you don't is a lucky situation.

Ruel Lasala

Autopsies conducted by the NBI on some of the victims did not show that they died of electrocution.

Heather Evans

A woman called because she wanted to let me know that she wouldn't be in because her husband died that morning. They take this very seriously.

Roger Warren

Baltus Roll, the gentleman who owned the land and died on the land, is where the name comes from.

Richard Brooks

I've lost loved ones and friends that have died out there for unknown respiratory problems.

Abraham Scott

Those who died were not just numbers. They were people with families.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Atem Aleu

Many people died from no water and no food.

Jim Shaw

So he had his favorite meal, played a show and died in his sleep. We thought that's not too bad.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Olivia Chow

This government wants to give with one hand and take away with other.

Geoff Hoon

This government plans and prepares. We will plan and prepare for this winter.

Kelly Lamrock

This government is treating the Speaker's office as a political plaything.

Chuck Logsdon

There are some key issues where we've not received a response that is what the governor wants to hear.

Margita Thompson

While we are disappointed we did not make the June ballot, everyone knew it would be very difficult. The governor has always said what is important is not June or November but that he and the Legislature work to rebuild California.

Larry Pendleton

We don't want them going to the Cactus League or anyplace else. We're pretty adamant about trying to keep them and I think the governor is, too.

Lydia Lenker

Everything is moving very quickly, and the governor is very pleased.

Bob Riley

The results today are conclusive. You're looking at the next governor of Alabama, ... There reaches a point when all of us have to stand up and say, 'Enough is enough.' We've reached that point.

Sharo Atmeh

We've been so shocked by what the governor has said that we've made it our first priority to speak to the state.

Dan Woods

What the governor had was a charade, really. It was disconnected from the reality of this state.

Paul Hoolahan

We want to be able to go to the legislators, the mayor and the governor knowing that we did everything humanly possible to make it happen in the state of the Louisiana.

Mitt Romney

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Gillian Jacobs

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

Rudy Giuliani

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

John Boland

We've had conversations with the mayor for a room for veterans to meet and it's been very positive.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Alison Goldfrapp

People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,

Juan Rincon

People say stuff at the games. But most of the people, especially here in Minnesota, have been amazing.

Bill Butler

People say one tree doesn't make a difference, but really they do.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Rhys Ifans

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Adepero Oduye

I assume Obama knows about stop and frisk, so this is not the person that should be the head of homeland security. I had to say something. Kelly's nomination would go against who President Obama is.

Barry Sanders

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

J. G. Ballard

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

John Arlott

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Brad Williams

Women feel safe with me. Because a woman with me knows that she can stop the situation from advancing to a point that she's comfortable at any time.

Russell Dynes

We really haven't had a situation like this.

B. R. Hayden

We'll have to take a look at it and see what the situation is and find out what's going on.

Bill Belichick

Every situation is independent. It takes two parties, or three to a point, to make a deal, and when that happens, we have one, and if it doesn't, we don't.

Commissioner Steele

This sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Sha Zukang

This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable,

Adam Ereli

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

David Greenlaw

You have a much, much different situation today.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.