Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Todd Rundgren

I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records.

Yayoi Kusama

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Gregg Brandon

We could never establish any momentum. Their offense kept us off the field for long stretches and we were never able to sustain anything.

Dale Lennon

We'll put a full rush on the punt team to establish protection and put a little stress on the snapper.

Karl Hobbs

We wanted to go into Pops and establish the inside position. We competed at all times, and at times our offense was magnificent.

Jim Amormino

With the gunman dead, we may never be able to establish a motive. Of course, only he knows that. We'll try investigative procedures. Again, it's going to be difficult. Once we look into his mental health, that may provide us some insight into what happened.

Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Brad Eldred

I thought it went OK. I got my feet wet and was able to kind of establish myself a little bit. I did some things well and found out I still have some things to work on.

Nick Hardwick

We have not made any assumptions and for the sake of Jean Charles' family, officers within the MPS and the public at large, will try to establish the truth in an impartial, proportionate and timely way.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

William Shakespeare

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Philippe Petit

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Action Bronson

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Gurudas Dasgupta

The strike will go on. We're ready for a settlement, but it has to be an honorable settlement.

Ron Dellums

There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Bill Johnson

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Billy Zane

One who knows nothing can understand nothing

Beth Moore

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Charles Colson

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Theodor Mommsen

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

E. Stanley Jones

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

David Platt

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

Dallas Willard

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Rajneesh

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Warren R. Austin

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.

Bikram Choudhury

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

John C. Calhoun

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Cecelia Ahern

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Benjamin Rush

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Anne Francis

Each one wanted to be the one who teaches her about life.

E.R. Rock

Everything we say and everything we do teaches something to our children.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Don Cornelius

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cooper

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Don Cooper

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

Dave Chappelle

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.