Famous Quotes & Sayings

Megan Snow

He was actually very cooperative. We spoke with him and to another person who spoke on behalf of him sometimes.

Steven Brill

I think you'll see a lot of third parties buying cards on behalf of their best customers.

Tasia Scolinos

We're pleased to be able to move forward with this important case on behalf of the thousands of victims and their families.

Ed Gillespie

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.

Prince Albert

Today, I'm here to express on behalf of my father, my family, and the principality of Monaco, my sorrow and sympathy to the people of New York and to the American people for the September 11 tragedy.

Saxby Chambliss

I know my 48th Brigade has been through some difficult times, ... It's a tough job. It's a dangerous job. On behalf of all Americans I want to thank you.

Steve Erickson

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

Kobe Bryant

I mean, it's tough to make the jump, ... So you know, the person's going to be faced with a lot of challenges, some ups and some downs...I can't speak on behalf of other players, but I can only speak on behalf of myself. And in that situation, you know, it was best for me to skip college and go straight to the pros. It worked out well.

Chuck Schumer

I know that a location has already been chosen for every Super Bowl until 2007, but New York has suffered the devastating economic impact of September 11, both on behalf of the entire nation and worse than any other city in the nation.

John Demming

Jack himself has been working the phone lines and speaking with shareholders this morning. People's money is safe here, there's no question about that.

Jeff Holland

Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific.

Tony Benshoof

He did a video of himself wishing me luck. It was pretty cool.

Roger Williams

He can't survive day after day after day without some improvement occurring. He's keeping himself alive.

Terry Wilson

He just tried to wedge himself in where there wasn't room.

Dusty Baker

He knows himself and how much he needs.

Jim Tracy

He is on a mission to pitch himself into this rotation, and right now he is succeeding.

Hank Sheinkopf

He showed himself to be a wartime leader. He rallied the people and he didn't buckle.

William Hazlitt

He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Robert Mugabe

There are things one must do for oneself.

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Robert Bresson

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Maurice Chevalier

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Marti

Oh, what company good poets are!

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

Waris Ahluwalia

I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

Mike Foster

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Timothy Ghriskey

It seems to us that this rally is primarily short-covering, rather than something fundamental. The sense is that tech doesn't have much room to go lower.

Neel Mehta

It's a service used primarily in enterprises. You don't see it much on smaller-scale servers or desktops.

Theo Zwanziger

This is primarily a communicative move, where misunderstandings can be put out of the way,

Michael Allen

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

John Heimlich

We don't yet have traffic back where we need it, but yes, the problem (of losses) is primarily fares rather than traffic,

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Robbie Robertson

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

Mona Singh

I have never made statements like, 'I'm quitting TV' or 'I'm quitting Bollywood.' I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.

Christopher Seekins

They are totally different statements and are dishonest.

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

George Henry Lewes

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.