Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Massenet

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Lois Perrin

This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.

Denise Sposato

It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Confidentiality of customer information is our No. 1 priority.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Jean Lacordaire

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Michael McKeon

Any suggestion to the contrary ... is outrageous and wrong.

Marie Okabe

The secretary-general also welcomes the prime minister's statement that such practices are completely contrary to Iraqi government policy.

John Key

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

Gerhard Schroeder

You are playing on fears that run contrary to our interests,

Robert Brown

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Tamsin Greig

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

David Hallberg

Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.

Lactantius Lactantius

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Bible Bible

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

William Henry Channing

Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

Adam Lambert

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

Frank Nothaft

Mortgage rates remained fairly stable this week as the financial markets tried to discern just how quickly the economy is growing and how sustainable that growth will be.

Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness

Charles Jones

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Charles Dickens

There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t

Amy White

Until this, they were fine in my eyes, normal, (Reporter question: You trusted your sister?), yeah.

Antwaan Randle

When we called it, my eyes lit up and I had to try to not give it away.

Ugo Betti

At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Jerome Harrison

About the third or fourth carry, I looked in my offensive linemen's eyes,

Gavin Grant

A lot of guys were really sharing the ball. You've just got to keep your eyes open when you're driving. We had three or four guys with three our four assists and that's what we need to have.

John M. Smith

Always keep one foot in the past, your head in the present, and your eyes to the future.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

Bill Mumy

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Casey Neistat

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

Edward Furlong

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Edwin Starr

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Charlie Worsham

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky actor.

Mike Matthews

This has become a specialty of ours. We were just lucky to be in this market before it got really hot.

Ron Lynch

They tell me this is a lucky store for them.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Lucio Tan

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Cass Gilbert

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Chen Guangcheng

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

John Lackey

When we have two jurisdictions, we have to have a meeting of the minds.

Emmett Hanger

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $100 million a year.

Tim Collins

We're doing everything we can to meet the needs of our customers, but things are going to be kind of crowded.

Robert Worthy

We're really getting into the meet of our schedule. This is really important.

Dave Uhrich

A lot of track meets aren't scored. Going in, we didn't know that it was going to be a scored met, and we didn't plan on taking this meet that seriously. But we did end up doing well.

Jerry Bovee

This (amendment) was written to say if you want to be in the association, we want you to play. I don't know of any school in our association that can't meet this requirement.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

Connie Higgins

All others will receive non-partisan ballots, so they don't get to vote on partisan offices.

Luis Gutierrez

They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,

Sathya Baba

The Yoga science is today being probed by physicists and others in Western countries.

Fernando Rospigliosi

They don't want a trial. That could implicate Fujimori and others in the government.

Steve Johnson

You don't feel superior until you tell others about it.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Tom Davies

I think he's very well prepared. I think he has all the qualities you have to have.

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.

Bernard Hinault

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Ryk Neethling

What makes it important is the kind of rivalry we've been talking about with Australia, with England, with New Zealand, with Canada.

Todd Wuerger

Verona has kind of become a rival for us.

Justin Marshall

The rivalry between those two is on a different scale to the one New Zealand have with South Africa, which has more tradition and respect.

Bruce Arena

This is probably the fiercest rivalry in the group.

Elbert Hubbard

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Usain Bolt

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

Aaron Williams

Honestly, you always have to put the teams with tradition up there, ... It's always a big rivalry for us.

Jean Racine

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Tony Lopez

All my friends think we?re going to get slaughtered. I really do think we?re going to win. I just want to shut everyone up.

Riad Seif

They shut us down before we could even say a single word.

Larry Brown

It's not something where we'll have to shut him down.

Phillip Thompson

It's not on, but at least you can shut the door,

Elias Levy

They're not getting infected, but they're still shutting down.

Mike Maddux

A year ago, you couldn't get the word 'Boo!' out of him. Now, you can't shut him up.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Steve Baldwin

And you don't have to feel it has to be presentable all the time. You can shut the door.

Yurii Pidopryhora

This would shut down the formation of new stars in the galaxy.