Famous Quotes & Sayings

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

Ian Macdonald

Investigations revealed the vessel was carrying 143 tonnes of Patagonian toothfish,

Zach Lund

The last thing I ever wanted was to be considered a cheater. The one thing I prided myself on was carrying myself with the utmost honesty and dignity. To be in this category, to be a cheater, kills me and hurts more than losing the chance to be in the Olympics.

Charles Lieberman

That's actually good news. It means we're carrying less inventory and the production process is adjusting.

Mark Schmidt

Our game plan wasn't for A.J. to get two quick fouls and sit out. Jeremy did a great job carrying us in the first half.

Abraham Lincoln

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

David Alston

We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years old of carrying home a state championship.

Rick Thompson

We have that all the time, kids following their brothers, dads, uncles and cousins at Boone. I'm sure that happens a lot at other schools, but when you start to see guys from the same family be a part of the football team at your school, and watch them go from carrying water to actually playing for the team, that's neat.

Brian Wagner

We were getting a little worried. But we were confident we had it. All season our defense has been carrying us and that's what we fall back on.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Theo Zwanziger

We want this tournament and we have started to work out a concept with six to eight arenas.

Sloane Crosley

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

Clayton Christensen

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

Daniel Peris

The Internet as a tool means all the leading retailers are going to be on the Internet in the next couple of years. The pure selling concept over the Internet has proven not to work and the pure plays are gong to be surpassed by traditional retailers.

O. Henry

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

Craig Venter

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Francis Collins

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Dale Carnegie

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

Albert Ellis

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

John Owen

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Maya Angelou

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Mark Waller

Obviously, it is aimed at trying to encourage qualified individuals to enter Britain.

Gary Gaetti

Only he really knows how he feels at the plate. Until he wants to really open up to me and wants to maybe go to a different place, there's not a whole lot I can do. I can just encourage him.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Hilton Armstrong

We don't want to lose to them twice. It was our mistake. We need to come out and play a little tighter 'D' instead of being so loose.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Michael Casey

The international business, instead of detracting from our business, is now additive to our business,

Kevin Keating

All he wants is to get out of there. It took about two seconds ... instead of going forward, to go in a different direction.

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Vin Diesel

I always have issues with trust.

Victoria Beckham

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Victoria Beckham

I don't have any issues with my age.

V. S. Naipaul

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Jeff Thomas

Bellingham's pretty tough. They're solid all the way through. They don't seem to have any weak spots.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Neil Gaiman

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

Jay Grimes

She seems like she'll come through. It's going to be a while.

Don Cooper

He's a man-child. Nothing seems to faze him.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Rick Barnes

It does seem like there's a trend of doing that.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Andy Weir

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Susumu Tonegawa

The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.