Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Wayne Taylor

Kevin had so many friends. Businesses and individuals have really stepped up to the plate for this project.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

John Jones

Just like so many tax laws, I think businesses are frequently unaware of these very valuable credits.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Rob Robinson

There are a lot of small businesses who are having a tough time making it through the first quarter of the year.

Kenneth Chenault

If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Kenneth Chenault

Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Barry Lynn

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Bruno

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

Alice McCarthy

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

Don Swarthout

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

Mike Hankins

Churches are the only thing that we do. I'm not sure we know all the answers, but we have heard all the questions.

Patrick Ryan

I know a lot of churches are taking up an extra collection, but I wanted this to be from substance, not from the extra,

Steve McKinney

I help companies educate their employees; I help churches and companies educate their people, We went out and purchased equipment for them and helped them set up their own program.

Sean Brady

In marking the establishment of our churches and parishes, we are not just commemorating long past events, we are celebrating the living faith which inspired those actions, and which continues to inspire, guide and sustain us today,

Mike Huckabee

The churches have filled in the gaps, especially when you consider that these folks have been dehumanized by this experience, ... It's not just a cot, food and a shower they need, it's a human touch, a hug, warmth, some level of respect.

Kathleen Blanco

kick us when we're down, to destroy hope when hope is all we have.

James Morgan

I think it's a joke, ... I thought this was a free country, and someone is telling me they are going to come destroy a member of my family.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning. But the way he threw, to be down one run after that inning, I'd take that.

Mike Lowell

He wanted to destroy the dugout after that first inning.

Adrian Moss

He used to destroy us the whole year.

Darlene McIntosh

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Alex Estrada

He is very unselfish. At times he defers to his teammates, but I wish he had that killer instinct from start to finish where he is just going to destroy people.

Paul Nolte

Greenspan is not going to wake up in June of next year and say 'I should have really raised rates more aggressively.' His legacy of price stability is pretty secure so I don't think the last six months of his tenure will destroy it for him.

Stanley Williams

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Roger Ailes

Jack and I are very easy with each other, ... He'll run the operation. He and I will meet daily. I'll offer my advice.

Brian Cresta

Just take a look at this - it can work for you. It's easy to say 'It doesn't work for me,' until you actually look at the numbers. This can make a big difference.

Al Carter

I talked to the guys about maximizing their opportunities. We missed seven or eight easy baskets in the first half, and I thought we needed to do much better in the second half.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Malik Rose

It always reverts back to sharing the ball, making the easy pass as opposed to the spectacular pass, ... His whole mantra is keep the game simple. If a guy's more open than you are, he gets the ball.

Sherwood Schwartz

He was a great actor, ... People think it's easy to fall down and get hit in the head with a coconut. And, every time, he'd find a different way to do that.

Brad Shaw

I think it comes down to desperation. I really don't understand some of the efforts we're getting from some of the guys when we're supposed to be trying to make a push to get into the playoffs. It's astonishing.

Paul Jacobson

He's helped to make Johnston what it is today through his efforts over the last 10 to 15 years.

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Mark Rylance

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Mark Farley

He's done a nice job with our kids here. I thanked him for his efforts and everything he has done here the past few years, and wished him well.

Daren Ganga

I am elated and I'm sure the guys in the team are happy with our efforts and performances throughout the series.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Kirk Hinrich

Our close-outs have been bad. We haven't been making the second and third efforts that we normally make.

Craig Castleberry

I would say that we're still contemporary but we use elements of blended, which has some elements of traditional music.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Roman Kostomarov

There are so many elements now that's why people make so many mistakes.

Richard Evans

I think it's likely that within three to six months we could have all the key elements pulled together in the form of a term sheet, which would be the key financial elements.

Jon Pepper

It could be vehicles and it could be elements of vehicles.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Daniel Breaker

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

William James

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Ken Cook

I wouldn't say it's atypical for the time of year. This time of the year you get real strong storms and they're starting to track a little further south.

Hannes Smarason

I wouldn't rule out further investments within those categories.

Estelle

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Kevin Heath

Just making it to the playoffs isn't enough for us as a team. I think we want to get further than making it to the playoffs.

Craig Patrick

John is a big, strong winger who is a proven and consistently productive goal-scorer. His presence further strengthens the group of forwards we're assembling here in Pittsburgh.

John Davidson

I think investors need to invest. I think the risk of being out of the market and missing the upturn is important. As we go down the road, I think we're going to get further increases. I don't think you should be investing next week's rent check. But I think your long term investment is going to really grow in the market and technology will lead that.

Sanford Rubenstein

He wants to live his life like any of us would want to live their lives, without any further need to comment.

Robert Frost

He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking

Mahmoud Othman

I think that their interference is bad, and it further complicates issues because this is an Iraqi matter.

Robert Crumb

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Nancy Buirski

Instead of the classic, heroic story that we all so much want to see, we see a story about a man who unfortunately can't get together to do what he wants to do.

Barbara Ryan

The restructuring is not heroic by any stretch of the imagination.

Lloyd Alexander

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Jeff Justice

The lay person doesn't have that training so their response to a life-threatening situation isn't always the same or as heroic as you would like it to be.

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Ronnie Dunn

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

Triple H

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

Van Jones

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

Bill Bradley

I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

Ryan Howard

I'm going to try to uphold Jackie's legacy and play in a manner that would make him proud.

Louise Erdrich

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

Paul Slattery

The important thing is the legacy lives and Tom lives with us.

Henry Giroux

All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Flavio Briatore

I was looking at the No. 1. That's the only thing I was looking at.

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Dan Bonner

Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

James McCartney

I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.

Andrew Strauss

He is very laid-back person, but there is a steely side to him and that means he has the respect of the players

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Humpy Wheeler

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it.

Glenn Geffner

There are so many variables. These numbers mean nothing when they're announced.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to Your slaves, who recognize only the One Lord.

Helene Lagerberg

Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Victor Clark

All it does is recognize the status quo,

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Tanya Kach

It was her idea. She said it was so they didn't recognize me.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Lauri Kemper

What we have is better than nothing, but it may not be sufficient to save the lake.

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Sam Worthington

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.

Doug Anderson

He was instrumental in saving as many ash trees as he could, and just a terrific guy.

Warren Buffett

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Samuel Beckett

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Will Rogers

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

Cass Sunstein

If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.

George Balanchine

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Atharva Veda

He, who works incessantly, accomplishes any task that he undertakes!

Richard Russo

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

Walter Benjamin

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Marcel Proust

The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.