Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.

Pope John

I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary.

Duane Propes

Our first consideration for writing or choosing songs is audience appeal and participation. It's important that our music not only?;pertain to us, as individuals, to make it real, but?;be something that the audience can grasp hold of and believe in as well.

Bill Keller

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Beau Willimon

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

Tadashi Shoji

I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

Brett Anderson

We definitely saw the parallels between girls working in a man's world. And the idea of making the Olympics appeal to a younger generation.

Jim Murphy

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Vivienne Westwood

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Wayne Dyer

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

Virginia Woolf

loveliness is infernally sad.

Virginia Woolf

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

William Blake

Exhuberance is Beauty.

Tim Buckley

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.

Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Don Kennedy

It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

Newt Gingrich

We are mutually concerned about getting the peace process to continue to move forward, ... We also share a belief that prosperity is the key to long-term peace, and want to create more jobs in the Palestinian Authority's region.

A. N. Wilson

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

Rick Atkinson

It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

James Anthony Froude

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Michael Englund

Today's report simply reinforces the belief that it will be 25 points instead of 50 points.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Roger McDowell

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that success.

Tim Knight

Right now I'm pretty happy. I'm looking forward to this semester. Hopefully I can just continue on how I finished last semester, play strong in these last three tournaments, and go from there.

Jason Hall

I always work hard on my game. I want to continue to improve each and every season.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Yasser Elguindi

But they don't want to send the wrong signal to the market. They want to continue a loose supply policy, meaning that if there's a crude problem, which there isn't now, they can supply it.

Pat Burns

But it's going to remain an open facility for any hospice program in the region. The hospice team from St. Luke's can continue to follow a patient and provide care.

David Gallop

But the survey shows they must continue to work on this issue.

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Lyndon B. Johnson

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

Daddy Yankee

They thought I was a friend of mine, ... It's the same thing that happens in the 'hood here. I was the victim, but it wasn't for me.

Gustavo Kuerten

For me, every moment is a different situation. Maybe in 2000, '99, I could come here and win a match, it would be one match for me, not a good result. But right now, it's important because I'm able to play another match. Basically, I have no contracts, so I try to find different shirts. In Brazil, I have a friend that is making them for me. Every tournament I'm using a different shirt.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Marcus Thames

That's what I work for every year. It'll be a great feeling.

Sean McMahon

Zach had a great race for us as he mixed in with some of the top runners in the state.

Tommy Lasorda

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

Thomas More

Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Ken Johnson

You really hope that he's OK. He's a great player and you never want to see a player get hurt like that.

Mike Dunne

You're a great neighbor and we all know what you're doing, and we know you're going to do this with care,

Tim Duncan

Beno has been playing great for us. With Nick out right now, Beno is getting a lot of minutes and he has really responded well.

Phil Colicchio

We wanted to take away their penetration. Our big guys did a great job of meeting their guards in the lane.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Stacy London

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Sue Monk Kidd

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Mary Ellen Mark

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Lisa Kleypas

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

Paulo Coelho

Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Marjane Satrapi

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Nick Vujicic

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.