Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

Zac Goldsmith

If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

William Henry Ashley

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

Virginia Postrel

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Ellen Key

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Douglas Elliott

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

Chris Hansen

The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Pat Camden

The police officer was protecting himself and the customers in the shop, ... His actions could very well have saved lives today.

Bradley Byrne

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.

Bruce Jackson

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Victoria Osteen

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Yanis Varoufakis

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Antoine Lavoisier

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Bertrand Russell

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Bertrand Russell

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Will Davison

That was really disappointing. I was trying to stay out of trouble and gave him room to get by me, so to be taken out like that seems so pointless. It was very frustrating as we had moved forward and I think we could have scored some good points.

Dennis Hogue

That whole region is good. They've got two key midfielders, one really strong forward and one really strong defender.

David Peterson

We have a lot of young guys and new faces, ... I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do.

Paul Edwards

We need to have some forward thought with all of this development.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Dalai Lama

Time is always moving. The important thing is to learn from the past and then look forward to the future.

Steve Tew

We have a good relationship with the players and we look forward to talking with them again.

Terry Wallace

We wanted to have a look at him as a forward and see how he handled himself and I thought he went all right.

Paul Pierce

We've got something to look forward to next year.

Clotilde Hesme

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

Arsene Wenger

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

Jean Fernandez

We wanted to go to the Stade de France because we have been waiting for this for a long time.

William Gallas

Maybe I need a new challenge. I remember when a France team-mate told me once, 'When you wear the AC Milan shirt, it shows you have succeeded'. That makes you think.

Mitt Romney

we'll end up being the France of the 21st century.

Thierry Breton

Next year will be the first year when the number of workers in France will decline, ... We really need them.

Tom Udall

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Donald Sparrow

He said, 'If I ever win the lottery, I would see the world. I want to go to France and Greece.' He wanted to go everywhere.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whatever minor differences we have, this task can be taken on only by Germany and France together,

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Mary Ford

We're really not in a very different place now than we were before. Unfortunately, this meeting really just didn't come to a conclusion.

Dan Rooney

I think they're meeting and there is some progress. But it's not enough, unfortunately.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Mike Miller

We'll have a meeting in a month or so before we get started.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I don't think that parliament will find the strength to annul its decision.

Derrick Kellier

I feel satisfied, it has been a long haul. I have been in Parliament since 1989.

Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

William Wilberforce

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

Kenneth Rexroth

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Dario Perkins

A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.

Jeremy Corbyn

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

Philip Ruddock

If the parliament is sitting it has to undertake business, that's not a question of picking and choosing,