Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muqtada al Sadr

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Liz Smith

It's certainly not my hope I'm replacing the irreplaceable Army. I've known him forever. He's a great, great guy.

Ken Jones

We had a plan for when he got out of the Army,

Richard Boucher

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

Bible Bible

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

Elizabeth Economy

We see lots of bluster from the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and the Pentagon. But at the very top levels of government on both sides there is a consistent acknowledgement that this is one of the most important relationships for global stability.

Samresh Jung

The shooters just need to work on their consistency in order to get even better.

Jessie Stricchiola

We've seen a consistent downward trend in responsiveness to submitted activity.

Steve Schultze

We thought we could do it in a couple of years, but it finally happened and it's real exciting for the kids, for the community, for the school, for our program. Our whole motto this year is 'Nothing but greatness.' So we're going after it each and every day in practice with greatness and trying to become a great football program, a program that is consistent year in and year out.

Alec Stewart

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Holly Brown

Devin stayed within herself and relied on her mechanics. She's been one of our most consistent hitters.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Walt Smith

Defensively, we did a good job with adjustments in the second half. Offensively, we have enough speed to hurt people. We are also pretty big up front, but they never contained Marco tonight.

Donald Brownlee

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain minerals or glass.

Keyon Dooling

It was tough. Defensively, we didn't contain Wade or Shaq.

Mick Jagger

As I got to him he showed me the paper and I saw it contained some white powder.

Manson Hill

(East Hall) is so strong it's hard to contain them. But I thought we did a much better job in the second half.

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Darwin Walker

We wanted to contain Vick and I felt that for the most part we did that. He got us a couple of times, but we stayed after him.

Rich Brennan

We wanted to contain Pryor and holding him to 11 was big for us.

Shane Warne

There have been little tiny things where England have outplayed us, ... With 20 runs more, we might have won the last Test. And even at Old Trafford, if we had contained England to 25 fewer runs we probably would have won.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Jim Craig

My views may have had some influence ... But their views have influenced me as well,

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

Baruch Spinoza

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

William Shakespeare

Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.