Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Galgut

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Marguerite Gardiner

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Eddie Jordan

We're going to hug him and kiss him. We're going to show him his way to the basket. He's a terrific guy. We love him.

Marshall Wittmann

Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.

George Bernard Shaw

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

Robert Lacey

Almost from the moment she was born, she has done her duty without flinching and without complaint. That's one reason there is deep and abiding affection for her.

Kevin Parker

There's a natural affinity to the two companies.

Wallace Davis

There's an affinity for those Delta areas because it's home for so many.

Anne Schwartz

We want them to look anywhere they can that children might hide.

Larry Andrews

We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want to move on. As of today, we will follow whatever the state guidelines are for off-season practice. As of today, you won't see us anywhere near a football until May 1.

Andy Newman

We actually begin our evacuations somewhere in the neighborhood of anywhere between 48 and 72 hours before tropical force winds are forecast to come ashore.

Jennifer Johnson

We believe that she has been there for one to three weeks and could be from anywhere in Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky.

Liam Fox

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

Laura Carmichael

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

James Ray

We were already busy before this. We don't have the labor pool, and the spec houses are not anywhere near completion, and they are going to get gobbled up.

Matt Damon

We were totally free to hang out anywhere and no one noticed us. We were not even worth a dot of ink on a page in the local newspaper. It was great to just go out and have a beer with no major hoopla.

Debbie Metz

Until we moved to Staunton, I never lived anywhere for more that two years. To be in Staunton 30 years is incredible, much less living in the same house for 25 years.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Mohammed Sharaf

There are big consequences for the British market if it doesn't go through, because investors are waiting for their money, the deal has been made.

Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Michael Quinn

Three terms are up and Gary and Greg won?t be running so I thought it made sense to stay on. It?s been a great experience and I have enjoyed it.

Kevin Kennedy

It's been so diverse. I've done so many different things. I've enjoyed every minute of it, and that's one of the main reasons I wanted to go - to try other things.

Troy Schirmer

A lot of people probably did have us picked here in the first place. The thing I'll remember about this group is how much they enjoyed each other.

Sasha Cohen

Amazing. I really enjoyed it. I didn't know what it would be like. They said they would love to have me back.

Mary Verrett

They had facts to show that this person enjoyed what he did to my brother. He (Byrd) was tortured and he was killed, and they got much satisfaction out of that. So needless to say, the Byrd family -- we too -- are satisfied right now.

Charlie Good

They were getting played quite a bit. I enjoyed watching people and was happy to pay out if they won.

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Ron Carey

would not have raised any flags for me.

Sue Jones

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

Joyce Kesse

It sends up a red flag to me as well.

Tom Taylor

They don't want to wave red flags and become targets.

Pat Wilson

It's not scripted. We set the stage, prep the track, then throw the green flag and they go to town.

Otto Rehhagel

This is undoubtedly the pinnacle of my career. Hats off to the team. I hope that all Greeks will be flying the Greek flag tonight, rejoice and savor this grandiose win.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Lisa Vidal

Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

David Tarantino

We've become much better at doing the work online. The whole industry is moving to more online maintenance. In a regulated environment, it wasn't as important to have short outages. We do the same work, but we're online now.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

John Felmy

It's a stain on the industry that's unfair. It's just disappointing.

Geoff Sundstrom

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Chuck Schumer

It's no secret that the manufacturing industry has been getting killed.

Greg Gorbatenko

It's not that the industry is weak. It's Nokia being weak.

Michael Feeney

It's not the stable industry it was 20 years ago.

Cass Sunstein

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Michael Novak

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

Ben Gordon

When we go down to Miami, we've got to keep the snowball going. We've got momentum going. We've got confidence. So we've got to keep it up.

Ben Gordon

When we go down there, we've got to keep the snowball rolling. We have momentum right now. We have confidence. So we need to keep that up.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Debbie Casto

We've got a very aggressive, trapping style of defense. And we get a lot of turnovers out of it. We've been able to get momentum with turnovers and score in transition.

Upinder Dhillon

We've got a lot to be proud of, but moments like this give us pause for thought.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Benjamin Spock

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Bill Wyman

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Peter Davis

We respect that Scott has work to do with Wales yet, but we need to know soon because we need to make a decision.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Al Jourgensen

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Charles Krauthammer

To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.

Dmitry Medvedev

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Brigitte Bardot

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

Ben Linder

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Eddie Vedder

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Eddie Vedder

I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, "Hmmm, this has some possibilities."

Angela Merkel

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Cindy Crawford

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.