Famous Quotes & Sayings

Proverb Proverbs

Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

Andreas Marx

AVG, on the other hand, is mainly used on PCs. The company has to avoid false positives. I know that the AVG team is working day and night on a solution.

William Osler

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Bill Gates

avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory

Paul Williamson

Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Horace

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Mark Cuban

Bad boys usually tend to mellow over time. At some point, particularly if they haven't won a title and if they are at the top of their game, they realize they can retain their personalities and have fun and avoid some of the drama and hassles they created in the past.

Bob Basel

As fragile as this market is, that could have really hurt. This doesn't seem bad at all.

John Dunford

A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.

Will Rogers

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

Dave Adams

As bad as we played in the first half, ... you go in at halftime and say, 'Gosh, if we just played decent football, we could've been tied.'

Whit Cornell

As bad as we played at times, we put ourselves in a position to win the game. That's what good teams do.

Charlie Melancon

As bad as things are in south Louisiana right now, can you imagine how much worse they'd be without functioning local governments?

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Antwan Peek

As bad as the season was, it shows that everything they talked about concerning our pass rush improving has proved to be true. We're going to continue to get better season.

Brian Riedl

As bad as the last five years have been, it's going to get even worse the next five years.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Don Cross

The boys are fired up to hit somebody not from Cabrillo,

Eric Balinbin

The boys are extremely excited. The last couple of days a few of them have called me and said, 'Man, I couldn't sleep.' They can't wait to play.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

Kathy Hoy

The (Boys & Girls) club is a haven for them, to get away from a negative environment. It provides great opportunities for kids. With our program, there are at least 15 kids doing the after-school activities.

Denny Brown

The boys worked hard all year. They made a lot of progress. Everybody I put in a game contributed to the team effort.

Adam Burish

The boys will win another one. I think the guys are going to be the first ones to win three (in a row).

G.S. Walia

The boys were very happy when the president spoke to them with their names.

Paul Hartley

The boys were right up for the game ? I could sense all week we were going to win today.

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..

Alan Young

Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.

Perry Farrell

Punk rock was exciting because you could get your ass kicked for looking like a punk. Punks were atrocious. They created mayhem. Now you just throw on a plaid-that's not style.

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

James E. Faust

God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

Edward Carey

I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

Kage Baker

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.

Martin Jol

We did it. We pressed them all the time, we created chances. The only thing we could be disappointed about is that we didn't score more than one goal.

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Channing Tatum

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

Jane Addams

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

Desi Arnaz

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Delta Goodrem

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Clive Standen

With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. I'm a history nut and I love to immerse myself in the research.

Brady Corbet

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Bruce Greenwood

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Diane Kruger

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

James Mulva

As an industry we feel it is not a good precedent to fund a government program.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Kristian Ghedina

People think I'm making fun of the sport.

Karen MacNeil

People get it immediately. It's a fun way of remembering.

Buddy Bell

Offensively, it was fun to just sit back and watch our guys hit as opposed to scratching out every run.

Tim Kaine

Often, money is taken out of that fund for other projects. I'll make sure that stops.

Marcus Giles

Oh, he's ready. It's going to be fun to watch.

Steve Robertson

Cocaine trafficking, the profits involved that are immense and terrorist organizations, just like any other organization, have to fund their organization.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Jeetil Patel

Expectations, unofficial ones, tend to get much higher.

Cory Booker

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Michele Bachmann

Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Chris Whitaker

Until you've won a title you'll never be completely happy.

Adam Lambert

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.

Lance Corcoran

Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities.

Daniel Payne

That's my top goal, to go to college.

Mike Smith

We're going to be on top of that very quick.

J. Taylor

There's no better way to top it off.

Charli Turner

We want the top spot. That's our goal.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Sam Nunn

Leadership must be established from the top down.

James Beattie

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Clive Barker

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

Chuck Palahniuk

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.