Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Mary LeBlanc

When we got married, we had nothing. We had no water, no utilities. There were no screens on the house. There were cracks in the floor big enough you could see the chickens walking under the house.

Scott Faber

What he said was incredibly encouraging, but I'm not counting any chickens yet.

David Smith

We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

Ron Gidwitz

This amounts to counting chickens before they hatch in an effort to inflate the numbers.

Randol Schoenberg

It's a decision the whole family has to make; there are four other heirs, we haven't wanted to count the chickens before they hatch. Let's let it sink in a little bit. No decision has been made yet.

Matt Prescott

It probably won't pass, but what we're most concerned with is that (Wal-Mart) shareholders hear about the cruel ways in which Wal-Mart chickens are treated and the humane alternative to that process.

Mohammad Afzal

It was a small farm, and we have already destroyed a total 3,500 chickens there.

David Mitchell

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

David Novak

There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

Natasha Trethewey

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

Lina Wertmuller

Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I'm focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films - I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.

Isabelle Huppert

The story is very cruel and very sharp,

Andrea Yates

a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.

Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

Chris Latham

Rugby's a cruel game. We didn't play to our full potential and we've come within a point, so we just have to try to stay positive.

William Blake

I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me.

S. Hughes

This drug could save the lives of 1,000 women a year. It is unfair and cruel for women like Ann Marie Rogers to know that it is money and their postcode that stands between them and this potentially life-saving treatment.

Terence Young

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.

Kara Swisher

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

Tom Shales

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

Steven Morrissey

Humans are not really very humane.

Max de Pree

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Maeve Sherlock

It will be cheaper, more humane and more efficient.

David Hodgkinson

No matter what, in Iraq there's a baseline of humanity, humane treatment.

James Nachtwey

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

Donald Rumsfeld

All the instructions I issued required humane treatment, ... Anything that was done that was not humane has been prosecuted.

Daisaku Ikeda

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Lisa Boyle

We're not only providing for the Payson Humane Society, but we're keeping tons and tons and tons of recyclables out of our landfills.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

Bobby DeBerry

This week I treated it like Sunnyside versus (the state) of Arizona. That is the way we have to look at it.

Michael Dukakis

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Russ Kinnel

You really should find other ways to distinguish yourself.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Tommie Liddell

Different day, same old thing. Down the stretch, we couldn't find ways to convert.

Val Hiser

We give in the ways we can. This is something I can do.

Dick Hutton

You have to look at other ways of making money. That's not always easy.