Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ball

I think it's horrendous that there's even a proposed 30 percent tax increase.

Michael Francis

I will say one thing about our people: we are resilient, ... That is reflected in how we manage to just come from such a horrendous situation.

Clive Woodward

In my opinion it is a pretty horrendous tackle and it has put him out for a long time.

Paul Streitz

His immigration record is the worst in the U.S. Senate. It is horrendous to us.

David Haynes

The autopsy photos...are going to be horrendous pictures.

Mark James

These things are a part of modern life and we'll have to live with them. It's a horrendous thing.

Mike Glick

For him to come into town and give a lecture about leadership is an ultimate insult to our intelligence - that's why we're protesting. He's supposed to be a soldier himself, and he sold out our own troops and sent them needlessly into combat. That's horrendous and egregious.

Ralph Cook

The traffic around here is horrendous as it is,

Sidney Jones

There are people who have suffered unbelievable trauma. There are people who have seen their own relatives being killed. There are people who have survived horrendous attacks.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Junius

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Preston Brooks

Whatever insults my state insults me,

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

John le Carre

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Rep. Bucher

I think the legislative leadership is pretty ripe to take up this issue.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Tripp Donnelly

Hopefully, this relationship will kind of validate and kind of showcase our leadership in the market.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

Willa Cather

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Marco Rubio

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

John McCain

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Rick Riordan

It's useless to lecture a human.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Richelle Mead

Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

John Laird

I just think I was sent up here to vote,

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ellen Glasgow

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Louis Pasteur

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Mark Kimmitt

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Mario Gallucci

He did everything he was supposed to do, the right way.

Tom Burchill

We talk about having fun. This is a race, this is a sport and it's supposed to be fun. We work so hard, this better be fun.

Katerina Kudlackova

I think we were supposed to win this match, and we did.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Dave Moates

He was throwing where he was supposed to be throwing and making his pitches.

Mark Ferguson

He taught me that I'm not supposed to have a signature. I'm supposed to be telling the client's story, not my own.

Cliff Lee

He did what he was supposed to do with that pitch.

Rick Warren

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Wayne Knight

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Vince Vaughn

Please don't take a turn to negative town.

Jim Carey

If you have this information, you can see where the town is going in the future.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Charles Prince

No town of 300,000 wouldn't have a jail.

John Green

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

John Green

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

John Green

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

Winfield Scott Hancock

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Tim Walz

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Richard Myers

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Brad Miller

The intersections will be constructed at their ultimate width.

Sandra Forman

It's the ultimate high. It couldn't get better than this.

Neil Stern

It's the ultimate credibility to say, 'Go see who we are,'

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

John Eccles

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.