Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sen. Lundby

The other thing I heard from people a lot was that they were amazed that $212 million had gone through those machines than the fact that the state got so little. People were amazed at the amount of money that could have gone into the economy.

Paula Jenkins

We were amazed when we opened the store to find how many people liked that style ... and there was no place to buy it. It seems everyone who comes in either has a log home, wants a log home or knew someone with a log home.

Barbara Walters

We were amazed when she said yes and we're thrilled to have her.

Nathanael Greene

We were amazed to hear him voice this commitment. He framed it exactly as we would have.

M. Thompson

We were amazed that saving 20 steps was so important to a guy who's going to ski all day.

Pamela Strother

We were amazed by the commitment and achievements of all this year's scholarship applicants. Dennis and his colleagues have set an incredibly high standard for this award. I'm thrilled that we will be able to honor Dennis at such a spectacular event.

Michael Palin

We were amazed at the enthusiasm of American audiences.

Steve Manning

Until we saw the article, we had had to go back and forth to Lancaster. We were amazed that there was a community right there.

Gene Constantino

We boxed out very well, holding St. Mary's to usually just one shot when they had the ball. The girls continue to amaze me with the intensity that they show on defense. And that 11-0 run to begin the game was the turning point. We also really weren't in any foul trouble.

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Joe Tucci

We're seeing a firming of IT budgets throughout the United States, ... We are seeing budgets get set.

Andrew Lochart

What makes it a problem, regardless of why, is that smaller companies are the ones who have fewer defenses in place. There are no large dedicated IT staffs in place, or large budgets for technology, so it's a double whammy.

Steve Miskin

As we put together this year's budget, we'll probably be taking a closer look at that.

Ellyn McColgan

All our businesses are increasing market share relative to their competitors. Our numbers exceeded budget.

Joel Friedman

They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

Richard Collins

The number of individuals and families in Georgia who buy their own health insurance is growing every day and, like all Americans, they are struggling to fit another expense into their budgets at a time when everything seems to cost more from the gas pump to home heating.

Richard Barber

It is very important to know what has stabilized Earth's heat, carbon dioxide and water budgets,

Chuck Yeager

It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.

James Allen

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Piet Mondrian

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

Ashwin Sanghi

What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.

Irish Sayings

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray

Edmund Burke

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Doug Muzzio

What does he get out of it? He ceases to be irrelevant. There's chest thumping here. He's saying, 'I'm not irrelevant.' He's in the news. He's dominating the agenda.

Atharva Veda

One fears death because of ignorance but when the 'flame of knowledge' is enkindled in the mind then the 'fear of death' ceases to exist.

George Iles

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Tom Mitchell

He's one of the few people that has an open mind and continues to look for a way every day to grow and learn. He has a driving force in life to make better images that convey strong messages. He never ceases to learn on every front.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

Jon Corzine

At long last, we must move to real and enduring property tax reform.

Jim Albaugh

Programs come and go. Enduring needs are just that.

Duncan Stewart

The telecom industry in general and Nortel in particular are facing an enduring prospect of low growth.

Winston Smith

You realize that an entire generation has passed you by, but it shows how enduring punk really is.

Shashi Tharoor

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Bob Goodlatte

The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

Philip Treacy

I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.

Marco Rubio

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Jeffrey Archer

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Mark Twain

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Margaret Thatcher

I will not change just to court popularity.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Brian Postol

There's a long way to go for these guys, but I think their programs are the right ones.

Lisa Greif

The studies show that those types of programs work.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Ken Lee

This is one of the better programs we have implemented since I have been on the board.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

Hayley Orrantia

Whenever you go into an audition, you have to be as prepared as possible.

Jacob Burtschi

Whenever we got close, they widened the gap.

Charles Smith

Whenever we go somewhere, it's like, 'What are we going to eat?

Brandon Kendzierski

Whenever we go at it, it's like a war.

Jevon Kearse

Whenever we blitz, we have to do more than take up a guy. We've got to get to the quarterback and get him on the ground.

Ric Flair

Whenever they feel like it, the door's wide open.

Johnny Miller

Whenever there's something new, it's always roundly criticized.

Andrew Hall

Usually it was 6:30 p.m. to whenever we were tired.