Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Thomas

We hold that the program , as it appears to have been structured at the time (Harper) was placed on it, differed from parole in name only, ... and affirm the (appeals court's) decision.

Dorothy Thompson

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th

Shaukat Aziz

I wish to affirm our total solidarity to all the countries who have suffered in these disasters and pledge to overcome the mammoth task of rehabilitation,

Jack Canfield

Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about.

George Scalise

June's numbers exceeded our expectations and affirm our forecast for a strong 2000.

Ben Jonson

I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth rendered to the use of man.

Robert Collier

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Joseph Campbell

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Louise Hay

As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Nancy Reagan

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant, he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.

Don Rose

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

E. O. Wilson

Normally, I would think they would be well on their way to South America by now,

Bob Cortelyou

Delta is responding to strong passenger demand for convenient service to one of Canada's largest business and leisure markets. In addition, we are building on the success of our winter service to Bozeman by offering twice-weekly summer service to one of the fastest growing leisure destinations in the country. These two new destinations will benefit from the extensive connecting opportunities offered by Delta's Atlanta hub, including convenient connections to Latin America and Europe.

Sal Colak

Delta is lacking a West Coast presence which America West would give them.

Daniel Mitchell

D.C. would be the Hong Kong of America. Income and wealth would go up so much that there would be a huge influx of tax revenue for the city. It would be a mecca.

Angelina Jolie

I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

Jane Austen

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

Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Baltasar Gracian

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Coco Chanel

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Edmund Burke

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

David Rakoff

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

Roger Stone

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

J. Paul Getty

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

John Bolton

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Robert Collins

We think it is wonderful that the public has embraced the project and wants to be involved.

Jim Rash

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Bill Russell

It's been cold, but they embraced it. They bundled up. They knew they had to be out hitting the ball, and there hasn't been one complaint.

Chris Ellis

All of us are going to make an impact. ... I think it's gonna be times two from last season, because a lot of us are going to play a lot more. It's gonna be put on our shoulders a little bit. We embrace that, though. We embraced that from when we first got here.

Bruce Pearl

We've tried to do a lot of things this year to embrace the history of Tennessee basketball.

Rick Pitino

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

Lee Smith

I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.

David Ditzel

We're not trying to displace, but embrace the marketplace.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Gordon Sinclair

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

bell hooks

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

Delta Goodrem

Since the release of my single 'Born To Try' I have been so busy completing the album as well as my busy Neighbours schedule I have not had much spare time. When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

Demetri Martin

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.

Craig Claiborne

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Paul Casey

It was tough. It picked up when we got to 11th and 12th and by then it was fierce. But that's why we play. It's a challenge. Actually, I quite love playing out there.

Kenny Rogers

The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down, Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town

Natasha Bedingfield

These Words (I Love You, I Love You)

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Pauline Marois

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Helen Clark

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Jalal Talabani

We have the right to be proud in saying that today was a day of national consensus, ... So congratulations to our people for their constitution.

Chuck Amato

I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.

Margaret Atwood

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to

Jane Asher

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Craig T. Nelson

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

Alison Moyet

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Drew Barrymore

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Randy Harrison

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Steven Chu

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Scott Kahan

Don't look at the past six months. Look at the past five, 10 or 20 years of returns.

Avi Dichter

We have done it in the past and can do so in the present.

D. H. Lawrence

Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.

Ernst Toller

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?