Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Erin Horn

I think it'll be a good series. We've faced good pitchers before and we did fine.

Jerry Hairston

Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.'

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Kyle Davis

(Harang) helped by botching up the first two pitches. Then, I was going for the strikeout. I felt good about facing Freel because I've faced him in the minor leagues.

Jimmy Page

I think when you're faced with a plight that's inescapable, and there's something you can do about it, you hope you can make a difference.

Ray Nagin

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

Robert Eenhoorn

When he went the second time through the lineup I thought it would be hard to get a hit off him. He faced hitters like Carlos Lee, and these hitters are usually very good making adjustments after seeing a pitcher for the first time.

Chuck Fehr

We've faced some good pitchers, but some guys have also been pressing and putting too much pressure on themselves. We finally had a good day at the plate.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing the history of all the receivers that have made a legacy here and in the NFL, I wanted to be a part of that trend.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Trey Clark

I talk about it every year at our team meeting. Their legacy and history is being passed down.

Paul Azinger

Greensboro's got too much history for the Tour to pull out, ... You're telling me you're going to pull the plug on a tournament that's been around for as long as this one has? That Sam Snead won (eight) times? I'd like to think the PGA has some loyalty and better sense than that.

Phil Angelides

has come down on the wrong side of history.

Thomas R. Insel

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Judith Butler

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Daniel Breaker

I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.

Andre Dreicon

In the medium term, it will make a difference.

Sophie Aldred

I loved the medium of TV from the first moment that I got into a studio.

Craig McCracken

You can say a lot with pictures. It's a visual medium - and especially with animation, you can do a lot that you can't do in live action." ()

Marshall McLuhan

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Sam Bhavnani

They're in a time of transition, and what they really need to do this year is sell products to small and medium businesses. Now, they don't really have products out there yet for that target market.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Daniel Clowes

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Michael Morris

I'm trying to get to a comprehensive, system approach.

John Bunting

Everybody's different. We'll look at some of the things that (South Florida) did to see if we can use things in our system to exploit.

Ed Rappaport

The big threat from this system is going to be the rainfall.

Ben Agosto

The new system allows for some of that unpredictability.

Debra Walker

It's important that the system as we know it changes. It's just going to take time.

Dick Cheney

It wasn't as though the system didn't respond,

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Robert M. Pirsig

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there.

Rufus Choate

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

April Winchell

Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

William H. Gass

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Richard Perks

They'll have to come up with something after deliberating for two years, but it's unlikely to be much.

Seth

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.