Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

Nancy Gibbs

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

Regina Brett

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Fay Wray

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

Bethany Hamilton

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

Bernard Arnault

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

Greg Boyle

The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.

Paul Beaver

The arms industry, both legal and illegal, is probably the biggest business in the world.

Mikhail Kamynin

The arms export control system we have developed is one of the strictest and most reliable in the world. It rules out any possibility of misuse of weapons.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Aron Ralston

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Arsene Wenger

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Anton Seidl

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Steve Schneider

You can always get to the decision-maker, but not always on the first, second or third call.

Chris Travers

I thought if we could get it down to three with 40 seconds left, we would have had a shot.

Nedim Pajevic

We had too many turnovers in the second half, and that's what killed us.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Heidi Smith

I wish I was second because me and Dana are 1-2 at heart. But I'll take third.

Mitch Baker

I was two-tenths of a second away from going to state.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Darren Sanderlin

It's all predicated by the defense. There's no trapping, just straight man.

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.