Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Jacques Chirac

a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.

Paul Chavez

They set the stage for everything. Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did.

Dennis Perry

There is tremendous conviction here that people will not let it happen. Democracy is not working here, it's the only route we've got.

Joe Kalinowski

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

Larry Rice

It's a very tentative-type market where people are going to opt for safety and wait it out. I think there's just a lack of conviction here.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Paul McNulty

This conviction demonstrates that traitors can and will be held accountable,

Bill Bradley

We're going to have two debates in Iowa in January, ... You can't have a debate in Iowa without agriculture being a major part of it. So we're going to debate agriculture in Iowa.

Pat Buchanan

You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls,

Jason Stanford

People who don't like politics will watch the debates just to see the show. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Rob Stutzman

Our decision to participate with the CBA was that they are the organization that has most successfully sponsored gubernatorial debates in the last two election cycles,

Ralph Nader

of increasing the number of presidential debates and including more voices in those debates.

Virginia Davis

Details of those debates are to be determined.

Fidel Castro

Sometimes I have the impression that our debates are unreal. It's as though the United States didn't exist, as though the empire and its hegemony didn't exist.

Paul Jackson

The X Factor was a runaway success and united the nation in debates over the rights and wrongs of who got voted out each week. We are in discussions with celebrities right now but are keeping some of the elements of the show under wraps.

Jill Lepore

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Stuart Fraser

There are some encouraging signs. They're going in the right direction. Still, they've got quite a job in front of them.

Jon Tester

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Tim Hibbitts

We have a state where a growing number of voters are displeased with the direction of the state. If that's not a good set-up for a third-party candidate, I don't know what is.

Tim Clark

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

Kelly Brown

We're just waiting for direction from the federal level.

Matt Haryasz

We're moving in the right direction. We're starting to get a lot of momentum.

Michael Ganal

With the January results, we have made a good step in this direction.

Bill Clayton

We explained our financial circumstances and the different direction we are going to take,

Jamal Qureshi

Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy,

Dusty Baker

He likes being with the team and we like having Kerry around,

Steve Foley

I think we did one of the things we set out to do, and that's try to get on Kerry Collins, get as much pressure as we can, kind of get him out of his rhythm a little bit. We had some success there, so I think that was a big part of our (overall) success.

Bruce DuMont

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Kim Gordon

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Bill Richardson

Our objective is to show the personal side of Sen. Kerry -- his character, his Vietnam service, his leadership qualities,

Amani Toomer

I really loved playing with Kerry and I just respected him a lot as a person, not only as a player.

Peter Greene

If Kerry were to win his policies would be more restrictive on business.

Mike Wallace

I've known (Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry for 25 years. He's a patriot. I'm listening to what he has to say,

Marie de France

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Bill Gates

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Joe Stellmacher

(Alvarez) lays everything out right there for you.

Peter Hooper

This does not necessarily mean that they are nearly done tightening rates but rather that this process will become less automatic. They are laying the groundwork for this transition.

Correll Buckhalter

They said that we had to lay it on the line and ....

Gene Krebs

They said, 'I'm not going to wait. I've got money to lay down'.

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Akon

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Akira Kurosawa

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

Akio Morita

Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

Alan Arkin

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

Al Pacino

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Chris Coons

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue

Chris Albrecht

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.

Chris Albrecht

Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

Chris Alexander

I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

Chris Abani

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chin-Ning Chu

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Bob Burke

They're not speculating one way or the other. Until they are absolutely, positively sure, they will not hint one way or the other.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

Kevin Krewell

If you absolutely, positively need a dual-core Xeon today, they'll sell it to you. But it won't be cheap.

Abraham Polonsky

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

William McDonough

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Abdallah Baali

The views of the United States are very important ... We will take them into account.

Sen. Saslaw

This is probably one of the most gun-happy states in America.

Bob Lynch

The United States will still tout the strong-dollar policy.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Bill Moyers

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Charles Lamb

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Bob Riley

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Dave Cole

They don't want to make a lot of noise. They want to be very stealthy, which is one of the trends we see going forward.

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Alexander McQueen

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Donald Miller

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

Anna Deavere Smith

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.