Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roland Betts

There's no question that the LMDC has been deeply wounded. We need to call upon the governor and the mayor to reaffirm their commitment to this institution, to reaffirm its role in the planning process and to assure us in a meaningful way that the efforts of that planning will not be wasted and will be respected.

Bill Bradley

Let me assure you, you are going to be all right.

Gerald Massengill

We're looking at speed detection devices. I assure you we're going to be buying some of this stuff somehow or another.

Mark Warner

No case has been more troubling, ... Rest assured there is no case I have spent more time thinking about, praying about and reflecting on than this case.

Thierry Desmarest

I believe that it is necessary today to join forces to assure continued solid growth and to take our place as an oil major of the first rank at a time when the industry is restructuring on a global scale,

John Pistole

But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

Ngandu Magande

I wish to assure the French government and people that their taxpayers' funds will be used in a diligent, transparent and accountable manner.

Jim Doyle

If they pass it in the Senate, it will be vetoed and it will not become law in Wisconsin, ... Everybody should rest assured that if that thing comes to my desk, it will be vetoed.

Generoso Senga

I have already called on the major service commanders to assure them that we will stay united, not resigning.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Ayn Rand

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant....

Benjamin Disraeli

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Benjamin Disraeli

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Brian Boitano

First and foremost I am an American athlete and I am proud to live in a country that encourages diversity, openness and tolerance,

Brian Andreas

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Rumi

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

Rumi

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Rumi

The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

Rumi

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Ned Yost

That's going to help us as much as it hurts us.

Wayne Howell

That's international basketball. It's nothing flashy, but they play real solid. Something like this will help us for the state playoffs.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, but a very present help in time of trouble

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Andrew Kennedy

We lived in a really small house there, ... We were not rich by any means. We were not the Kennedys that everyone knows. We don't have their money, and we look a little different.

Ray Brown

Even if your house does go up $20,000 in one year, a lot of that will have to pay for your commission. If you have a $300,000 house and 5 percent commission, say bye-bye to $15,000.

Chris Smith

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

David Hestad

Everyone talks about the Tallman House and how Lincoln slept here.

Jon Huntsman

This could be the state of Utah we're talking about. We're doing it for our neighbors this time, but it could well have been Utah,

Ruben Blades

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Bob McNair

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

Willie Wieck

Every opportunity that comes along, you have to make use of it.

Meshach Taylor

That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Barry Bonds

Right now, I'm just day-to-day, trying to get through the rest of the season,

Bible Bible

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Cardinal Richelieu

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Arianna Huffington

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

Diane Cilento

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

Bill James

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Bill Hicks

Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

Elbert Hubbard

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Ben Huh

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

Marc Levitan

To some extent, I think we've been lulled to sleep.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Questlove

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,

Dan Davis

I told them to stop their friend. They didn't.

Kyle Chandler

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.