Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marquis de Lafayette

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.

Chris Grayling

I think most people will be astonished at the way ministers seem to be using the Queen's Flight as a private taxi service.

John Snow

I'm astonished every time I come to see how much has happened since the last time I came, ... the changes are nothing short of breathtaking.

Michael Korda

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

Kevin Starr

I don't think Hiram Johnson would condemn it, ... but I think he would be astonished at the breakdown of dialogue between the two major branches of government.

Craig Brown

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Asim Jihad

When he came back he was astonished to find that the prime minister issued a letter ordering Dr. Ibrahim to stay 30 more days on holiday because of his disagreement and his threats to resign from office.

Gunter Grass

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Thomas Tusser

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

Gabriel Mann

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.

Geoff Hoon

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.

Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Abraham Lincoln

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Yani Tseng

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

Ezra Taft Benson

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Sung Sohn

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

Conrad Lautenbacher

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Bethany Mota

When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.

Dave Mustaine

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

Barack Obama

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Michael Morgan

Michelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so powerful.

Sen Hanna

We're creating a pilot program that's very permissive to try to combat suicides. At the same time, it gives the parents a way to glean information about their children's well-being while away at college.

Sonequa Martin-Green

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

Joseph Biden

If, at the time the United States withdraws its combat forces the Europeans all pull out, it is going to be a very difficult sell in the United States of America,

Jim Nicholson

The people that are over in the combat theaters are about half from the Reserve components,

Robert Ingersoll

I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast

William Peter Blatty

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

Richard Daley

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Michael Riedel

Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.

Keith Louder

We hadn't had much production in our first two games, so we devoted one entire practice to just hitting. We just looked more comfortable at the plate.

Sandi Gibbons

We have a whole division devoted to filing these types of cases,

Rudi Giuliani

I'm a human being; I have my limitations, ... I tried very hard to do this job 100 percent. I devoted myself to it.

Jacob Rothschild

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

Sathya Baba

Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God.

Coral Conner

He's a family guy, and his family has all moved out of the area. He's very devoted to his grandchildren.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Yani Tseng

I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Ellen G. White

The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.

Rig Veda

Those who are misers shall never part with their money.

Ronald Reagan

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

John Donne

Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Teresa Williams

What do you think, Bob, shall we keep her?

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.