Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Clark

Whenever you can contribute this time of year, especially with the points we need right now, it's always a big boost.

Ken Stewart

When forests are professionally managed, they contribute greatly to our quality of life, which this property will do for decades.

Richard Maulsby

When we find or are informed of such personal information in our files that could contribute to identity theft, we remove it and so inform the applicant or petitioner.

Paul Gaustad

With the lines we have, we really just want to contribute as much as we can. I think it's the strength of our team, and it shows our character.

Alonzo Mourning

All of us needed to contribute in order for us to get that win. Some nights are going to be like that.

Mark Ward

A lot of people say they wish they could do something to help, and in some regards, there's not a lot an individual can do because of William's particular condition. But this is one thing they can actually do. They can show up and be a part of it and help contribute to the MDA.

Michael Fisher

A lot of people out here are Republican. They contribute significantly to the Republican Party. Since Mitch Daniels and the Republican Party are going to be out here today, it's a good way to communicate our message.

Kyle Herrman

A married couple filing jointly can deduct up to $6000 if they contribute that much and that is per student, per year.

Mike Pearson

They get to help contribute back to the Lions Club, and we save money by getting these guys to drive for us.

John Peel

Yes, I always feel that the music I like, and I genuinely like, the stuff I play on the radio is my own way of going out on the street and righting these wrongs that I think should be righted.

David Payne

It's just nice to be able to represent somebody that people can genuinely look up to. He really could be a hero.

Dave Magarity

They were genuinely happy for me. They thought it was right for the program and happy that I had made the decision.

Keeley Hawes

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

Caroll Spinney

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Joey Avila

Last year we had a lot of egos. We had some issues. We don't have that this year. This team genuinely likes each other.

Lynn Coady

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Peter Hill

People were very proud of it and very complimentary, genuinely so. It has given us a greater sense of purpose than perhaps we had before.

Jerry Falwell

I think he is genuinely a state's righter -- and so am I.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Ball

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charlotte Lamb

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charlie Kaufman

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.

Charlie Munger

I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.