Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

John McEnroe

It would be fitting; I hope he does it. For a country like Croatia, it would mean even more than when I did it for the States.

Jean Giraudoux

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Claude Clegg

It was the same issue as this country and any other settler society in which you have a native people and then others who have come to settle,

Bruce Chen

It was very important for me to play in this tournament. I feel like I owe it to my country. I have been playing in the United States, and I have been doing good. But for me to represent my country and wear the Panamanian jersey makes my family and my friends back in Panama very proud.

Mark Leaman

It was all fertile ground, and the mood of the country was different, too.

O. Henry

The storm made it to the country with us.

Marwan Muasher

The steps Jordan has taken are necessary for the development of a truly independent media in the country, but they are far from sufficient. . . . We need to evolve towards a culture where diversity is seen as a source of strength rather than a weakness, and where criticism of the state is tolerated by the state and society in general.

Dr. Gardner

The state of emergency in this country is critical. If it were a patient, we'd be putting it in the ICU.

Mark Richt

I didn't know I got criticism.

Eric Herzik

Politicians will tell you that their spouses get more upset with the criticisms than they do. That is what is going on here.

John Cain

I get real upset when I hear criticism about Ron.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Eva Mendes

I love constructive criticism.

Eugene Delacroix

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

George Santayana

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Fidel Castro

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Henry Miller

We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Baltasar Gracian

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Brian Posehn

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Mario Batali

English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood.

Georgia Perez

Eagles are very important to me and my culture.

Dennis Latta

The race fits the culture of New Mexico well.

Millet

We inhabit a culture that's disgusted by intellect,

Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Dalai Lama

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Anne Rice

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Alice Walker

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

Thomas Sowell

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Tariq Ramadan

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

Jeff Carlson

People are tough. We're evolved for less food; more exercise; less sleep; less security; more paranoia. The irony is that we're so good at what we do. We strive for more food; less exercise; more sleep; more security; less paranoia - and we've succeeded.

David Lipman

After 20 years of seeing Kelly, you need to evolve. If you don't evolve brands, they'll dissipate and go away.

Meg Whitman

We want to evolve with you, ... Many of you thinking about giving up being on eBay, and why not?

Jim Griffiths

We have to evolve a scheme that transfers windfall profits to farmers willing to stay on the land and farm. Transfer payments may be the only way to keep them in business.

Alicia Keys

I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

Ross Levinsohn

In any business, you have to evolve.

Isabella Rossellini

I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Mark Woodworth

Jeff has evolved and learned to live with it. I'm very proud of that.

Marcus Samuelsson

I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Sergei Fedorov

As far as offense, it worked out for us really, really well.

Matt Moore

As far as numbers go, Jonathan and Derek did what they did here, ... I think people evaluated on their careers, not after two games. After this year or next year, I think I'll be able to make that judgement on myself.

Tom Pappas

As far as my understanding of the gospel, they're just sadly confused.

John Hurt

As far as movies go, my master is Fred Zinnemann.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Bobby Ross

I've been pleased with the way Jordan is hitting. He makes a lot of contact.

Marwan Muasher

Obviously this is something Jordan is not used to,

Jane D. Hull

Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Billy Connolly

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

Elif Safak

Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

Edward Ruscha

I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Amy Goodman

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Rush Limbaugh

It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Sterling Ivey

We wanted to take all necessary safety precautions.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

John Egan

If DSS isn't going to do anything, then it may not be necessary for us to do anything.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Sandy Miller

This is probably the worst day we've seen in many, many years.

Asma Jahangir

This is something we have not seen here before.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Jack Horner

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Honore de Balzac

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

Henri Nouwen

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Suzy Kassem

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Simone Weil

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Rosie Perez

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

Ron Kaufman

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

M. Wolfe

The more participants we have, the better we can be. I think we can have a real strength in numbers.

Jeff Carnazzo

The strength of our team has been our defense.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Aesop

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Al Gore

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.