Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

Jonathan Cohen

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Richard Blumenthal

We think that as of right now, unless the federal government tells us otherwise, we can continue to do as we have done with our system, ... We believe that our regulation embodies a valid state policy that articulates our belief that school boards are in a better position to muster the facts and expertise in any contest with ordinary parents.

Thomas Paine

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Franz Humer

I maintain the belief that it is not that easy or productive or value-creating going for a mega-merger,

Mark Bruener

My belief and desire to play has changed dramatically since I got here. Football is fun again.

Michael King

Fundamentalism is not a phenomenon limited to religion. Any belief system can become intolerant and give rise to violence. Whether one likes it or not, humanity is 'wired' for myth. Mutual tolerance is the only way.

Chris Grisanti

If AT&T, for example, is any indication, the shareholders have a lot to gain (from this effort). The executives?have the belief that the parts are worth more than the whole. And to get one piece of that sexy Internet business in this kind of a market, they could very well be right.

Iain Jones

I expect these to be tough games but I have every belief that these girls can compete with these teams.

Jonathan Cohen

valued contributor.... Wewouldn't comment on his beliefs or cultural activities.

John Raese

I coincide with much of his beliefs -- low taxes, low regulation and a support for a free enterprise.

Peter Jackson

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

Steve Ballmer

When should a company take a position on a broader social issue and when should it not? What message does the company taking a position send to its employees who have strongly-held beliefs on the opposite side of the issue?

Barry Ritholtz

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Mike Shula

Offense is what creates excitement. Defense just wins games.

Lauren Spillers

Defense creates offense. We create turnovers and steals and that gives us easy chances.

Michael Strauss

An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S..

Chucky Atkins

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

LaVar Arrington

I've slowed everything down, ... I slowed how I view things. I slowed how I react to things. Not just in football, but in life. I used to create something in my mind and make myself go 100 miles an hour towards whatever that was.

Jan Egeland

The way it is now it can not continue. We need security, which we do not have. We need a government that enables us to work and does not create obstacles to our work. We need a guerrilla (force) that does not specialize in hijacking relief trucks and fighting each other and displacing new people, which has happened in the past few weeks. And we need funding.

Tim Ryan

This creates a love of learning. We need to develop a love of learning in general ... that will help us be a competitive country.

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

Emily Dickinson

Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.

Damien Chazelle

I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

Nicolas Cage

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in my dreams, ... It's a fantastic feeling and tough to describe.

Warrick Dunn

These women can't be my mother, ... In a sense, I live through them. My dreams come through them.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Eckhart Tolle

Facing facts is always empowering.

Glenn Schifano

To put the shaker in his hand and then to get him to shake on his own, I think it was empowering for him and also empowering for parent.

Alton Brown

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Ron Oden

I enjoy this arena, ... There is nothing more empowering than knowing who you are, that you are where you are supposed to be, and that you're doing what you're supposed to do. Right now, this is what I'm supposed to do, but I know ultimately there's more for me to do than this and I look forward to doing it.

Deborah Lindholm

If you empower a man, you empower one person. If you empower a woman, you empower her entire family. When women get together, miracles happen.

Narendra Modi

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Sheryl WuDunn

Women are not the problem they're the solution

Kate Voegele

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.