Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Suriyasai Katasila

We always bear in mind the king's concern of peace and stability. But the rally to Government House, which will be peaceful, will continue.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Robert Redford

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

St. Teresa

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's mind.

Dennis Melcher

The post player was just standing there so I told her to bounce it off her back. We work on that a little, but if they are going to give it to us, I'll take it.

John Connolly

We started the season slowly, but since then we've won four on the bounce and played pretty well during that time,

Chuck D.

We're in that mode here where there's a dead cat bounce and that the glass is half full. At some point reality will set in and then the glass will be half empty.

Peter Chandler

We're in a bouncing environment and as soon as you get any kind of bounce they're selling into the bounce, and that's what we're seeing here.

Chase Tidwell

We're not going to quite. We were a different team this weekend than we have been over the last few weeks, but we'll bounce back.

Chauncey Billups

When he don't bounce right back, you know he's hurt. I don't know what it is, but I don't worry too much about that guy.

Jamie Russell

When we were successful in this building, we scored shorthanded goals. If we get a bounce here or there (tonight) and if one of those finds the back of the net, it's a different outcome.

Scott Anderson

We're going to see a good bounce back in the first quarter. Solid consumer and business spending will be driving that growth.

S. Hughes

What we're gonna see now and probably for the next few days is what we saw yesterday, a little technical bounce from oversold conditions,

Paula Abdul

All my life, I have been taught to take the high road, and never to dignify salacious or false accusations. And I have been taught never, never to lie. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

Carl Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Steven Forester

It seems like all the currencies are pretty well stuck in some pretty tight ranges, and I think everybody's getting probably lulled into a false sense of security.

Charlton Heston

Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong.

George Hoffer

You don't want to give people false signals with price.

Jim Sterk

There was probably some false hope. If I had a choice, I would have liked to have a (non-league opponent) that won in there.

Jim McDarrah

There was one guy, his false teeth fell into the sewer. And he just picked them up, shook them off and put them back in his mouth.

Mike Grier

It's a little troubling. I think when you start scoring five or six goals a night, you get lulled into a false sense of belief. As a team, we let things slide. Maybe this stretch will help us get our heads screwed back on.

Sonny Smith

They recognize a false smile and a false greeting. Be gentle and be yourself.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Al Franken

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Jandy Nelson

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Bob Bacarella

There is nothing on the horizon that is going to turn this stock around quickly. ( Intel ) is like a big ship in the ocean. It takes time to turn.

Jeffrey Benton

There's nothing out on the horizon that's going to push us one way or the other.

Colin Wilson

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Melanie Griffith

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Michio Kaku

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

Isabelle Eberhardt

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

Deborah Grey

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of nasty ones. 'It's your fault. You stink. I know you are going to choke.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of nasty ones, ... 'It's your fault. You stink. I know you are going to choke.'

Joe Johnson

It's tough right now. We're in a nasty funk. Somehow, someway, we have to find a way to get a victory.

Joe Johnson

It's tough right now, ... We're in a nasty funk. Somehow, someway, we have to find a way to get a victory.

Larry Sabato

It's awful. These two races are the worst possible combination ? nasty and dull. It doesn't get any worse.

Richard Stallman

The world has sprung very nasty threats on us and our software.

Vance Arnold

The weather is supposed to be nasty Tuesday and Wednesday. We're not sure if we will play them this week.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

John Cape

We're going to push for two things: responsibility and reform.

Kenyon Martin

We'll see. I'm getting better. I just don't want to push anything.

Mike Mihalus

They push themselves. You'll see one person out there alone, practicing.

Maggie Mueller

It starts in the defense. As long as we can push it up the field, everything seems to work. It's a team effort.

Jessica Preslar

They're a strong team, but we didn't let them push us around today. Every time they pushed, we pushed back harder.

Michael Redd

They're pushing it on us, and that's our game. They got a lot of fast-break points, even on some of our makes.

Aaron McGruder

they're not really thrilled about it, but I keep trying to push them.

Dave Strang

They are doing quite well in the conference. They've got three scorers, basically, from what I've seen on their stats.

John Taylor

They are showing they are quite intransigent and showing they are going to be very difficult.

Colin Firth

There was quite a lot of your rear end that didn't make it either.

Stephen Hess

There were big, big items, and that was really quite exceptional for one of these speeches.

Anne Fox

They probably will be here for quite some time, ... There's a possibility they could be absorbed into the community.

I. Stone

I try not to get quite so pushy,

Brett Buckles

It was quite the jump, being thrown into it. It's been a blast.

Thomas Breuer

It was quite surprising to me and my team to make this observation.

Ali Alatas

It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Todd Eberhard

It's a continuation of the story we've been seeing for months.

James Kelly

Once we start re-entering the atmosphere, you start seeing the plasma go by the windows,

Pete Hughes

Seeing him get the victory at 103 made me want it just as much.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Chris Hester

It's killing me. I've got staff sitting everywhere. This year, I don't know what is wrong. Is it because there's no Lance?

Kurt Warner

You don't want to be sitting out the game. You want to be out there battling, no question. But at the same time, when those things happen, what do you do? Do you stew on it and pout about it, or do you do everything you can to get back on the winning track?

Riley Wallace

It's a big win because you're still sitting up there 2-0 for another week.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.