Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Cameron Johnson

He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.

John McCarthy

We're not working with American on this issue. We have proffered the offer directly to the shipping company.

Charles Polk

It is potentially an interesting alternative to Gallup polls or to specialists reporting from the region. It's a way of going directly to individuals in the region or outside who have knowledge or interest in the political and economic events in the area.

Stanlyn Placencia

I think we're progressing. I don't think we're directly on target, but there is progression.

Jenny Lehman

In addition, there has been a lot of donations made online and through the 800 number, but that figure is the money that has come directly through our door.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Martin Binks

Improvements in the quality of sexual life were directly related to weight loss and seemed to reach their maximum at about 12 percent weight loss.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quvenzhane Wallis

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

Quinton Aaron

I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Becca McArdle

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Joan Bonvicini

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

Virchand Gandhi

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

Dan Boone

It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.

James Patterson

They call me, The Sharkalator

Mario Pescante

The maximum of penal sanctions (for such offences) is two years and (for offences) up to two years we do not (serve) prison-time in Italy.

Felix Gonzalez

This is one of the most destructive hurricanes. We are on maximum alert.

Fausto Bertinotti

We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.

Sean Taylor

For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions.

James Sinegal

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

John Spratt

We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.

Amity Shlaes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Robert McGrath

He's able to do about 80 percent of what he did this year.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Ed Peterson

We're probably doing 60 percent as many ships as we had been before the storm.

Eric Price

What you see here on the facility, we are probably running about 90 percent of our workforce.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Attorney Mangieri

He had not been on TV. He went out and saturated the airwaves. He went up to 31 percent and I went up to 18 percent.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.

Drew Kesse

He immediately reached out to us. We're very grateful.

Mary Jordan

They wanted to see them. And when you say no, we can't let you in, we've reached capacity, that's heartbreaking and that's what it was.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Christine Hudacko

They have all the time in the world to reach that point.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Herbie Hancock

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Rick Ford

A lot of it is related to safety.

Carl Edwards

It's a little different. There was a time not too long ago when I just wished I had something to do related to racing. Now there's so much to do.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Christine Johnson

Everything about (the) swing is related to (the) alignment.

Leslie Moonves

God, it seemed like we had shot somebody.

Mark Kantor

He said he was getting a new job. Everything seemed to be going fantastic.

Robyn Robichaux

He seemed like his usual self, ... Same as he always was.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

The Sense

It's how me and my friends talk to each other. It seemed very real and very natural.

Larry Long

It just seemed very suspicious that he would be doing that activity.

Louise Hall

It just seemed appropriate that I got it back on this day.

Steve Kerr

It seemed like they were disregarding the pass,

Steve Dunn

It seemed like he was up there forever. I know it had to wear him out.

James Lecesne

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

Jeff Pearson

It was a sexual assault, but we can't get into specifics.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Francis DeBernardo

That shows the Vatican has no understanding of sexuality or homosexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

Sonia Braga

We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.

Reggie White

America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Tiara Cook

I need to get in the weight room. She is good.

Milan Kundera

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.