Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Gerard Kennedy

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

James Purefoy

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

Tang Min

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Michelle Johnston

The packs include information that students might not be aware about. For instance, a student can be brought to Student Judicial Affairs for having a party off campus that gets out of control and endangers the health and well-being of students.

Mark Twain

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him

Gurudas Dasgupta

There is a memorandum given by the US embassy in Delhi to the external affairs ministry on this issue. We have confirmed information on this. We want the government to officially deny it.

Owen Young

We may debate political participation in the affairs of the world as we will, but we must participate it its business, and business, like science, knows no political boundaries and in its dictionary there is no such word as isolation.

Bobby Kielty

I would say the Steroid Era is over. If it isn't, these people are going to get caught. You are going to be caught and you are going to pay. If you are dumb enough to take steroids, you are going to pay the price. The penalties outweigh the benefits.

Romeo Crennel

Just sitting out there, I saw a couple of throws that caught your eye.

Dave Sarachan

Jordan caught our eye at the combine. He could be a sleeper in this draft. We were looking for a defender to get ourselves stronger in the back.

Tom Sawyer

I think it all just caught us off-guard last week. We thought we could just turn it on, but you have to prepare for it,

Gary Ballough

It caught us off-guard at the last second. Living here, I should've known the wind was going to come out of the southeast in the afternoon.

Pat Vredevoogd

It caught me off guard when I saw those numbers. But then I realized that in my own practice, I've been working with a lot of single women lately; young women just out of college, widows wanting to downsize, divorced women who are starting over. So, I see no reason why this trend shouldn't continue.

Paul McGriff

It caught me completely off guard. I had no idea it was going to be me.

Dario Franchitti

It caught me by surprise, because I've never had the back end come around like that there. It's going to make it a hard day (today).

Rashad Williams

He used to play sports, now he can't play sports anymore. At that time it was track season for me, so I related his situation to mine: What if that would have been me? I would have missed out on the whole track season and everything, so his (situation) really caught my attention.

Ken Hill

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Chris Chute

keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.

Terry Edwards

Having as much math as possible leaves doors open for the future.

Tim Walsh

His parents always opened their doors to us.

John Trudell

Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.

Jerome Meyer

To get 3,000 students through two doors in 15 minutes is an impossibility, ... The University can figure out that you can open more doors. It doesn't take much to do it.

Jody Conradt

I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.

Sabeer Bhatia

I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.

Forest Whitaker

Hopefully this film is going to open the doors for a lot more films like it to be made.

James Blanchard

I was in the (Navy) SeaBees and stationed in Gulfport, ... The water went so far inland people were drowning in their houses.

David Tepper

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Source Unknown

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Dutch Proverb

He who will try to drown his sorrows, will find that they can swimm very well.

H. Jackson Brown

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

David Blaine

If not, I will drown and you all will see something pretty insane.

Dedrick L.

If love were an ocean I'd have drowned twice.

Granth Sahib

In love with duality, they waste away their lives in vain. They drown themselves, and drown their entire family; speaking lies, they eat poison.

Slobodan Milosevic

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

Cecelia Ahern

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

David Holmes

I think the market is very healthy. With investors still waiting on the sidelines to get in, I just don't see the market falling away.

Randy Johnson

I think the pieces are starting falling into place now which is good because you've got a month and a half left, so every game is important,

Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

Robert H. Connelly

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

King Krule

When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them - say it was a girl. I could write this song about how I feel about this girl, I could play it to them. I just loved it, because all of the words would speak to them. I could see them slowly falling in love with me.

Steve Bruce

He goes into the box, and does very well at falling over. Remarkably well

Rob Sheffield

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.

Richard P. Feynman

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.

Sam Worthington

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Michael Keaton

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Joe Newman

We looked at the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, CBA and NBDL and there were little or no minority ownerships. Unless you were a famous star, all of those leagues were excluding minorities.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Harold Vogel

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

Ben Silverman

I remember taking a look at them 18 months ago and not being very impressed. Management has obviously executed very well. It was obviously a mistake to overlook them.

Joe Barton

If I were a dues-paying member of the Jockeys' Guild, ... I'd want some new management.

Woody Williams

I'm sure it was a relief for my teammates and management,

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

David Robertson

It could come down all at once in the rain storms on Friday, who knows.

Richard Wilbur

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...

Truman Capote

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Truman Capote

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

Rick Riordan

Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand

William Wordsworth

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.

William Gibson

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Sarah Rees Brennan

She walked beside Jared, four inches of rain-dashed darkness between her hanging wrist and his.

Sarah Palin

Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas

Dick Thompson

This is not confirmation for us. We need to have samples sent to a certified laboratory.

Charlene Schultz

And you get to sample from the new olds.

Chris Pratt

Just be comfortable with who you are.

Donald Brownlee

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

Zane Grey

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Henry Clay

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Eliza Haywood

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Jane Austen

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Edmund Burke

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Confucius

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.