Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Bryan Sierra

The pending prosecution is not about the guilt or innocence of the defendants. This is about lies perpetrated by a federal prosecutor and a federal agent, as alleged in the indictment. It's about perjury and the integrity and fairness of the judicial system.

Katherine Harris

The alleged improper return of absentee ballots by third parties does not, in and of itself, constitute a basis for invalidating all of the absentee ballots cast in Bay County,

Eleanor Norton

The amount and depth of the torture that's been alleged and corroborated leaves no doubt in my mind that what we saw was a staged interrogation,

Bill Thomas

We know that the accusing witness has conducted a comprehensive media interview within a few days of this alleged brutal assault, so I certainly cannot understand why the identification procedure would have taken this long to conduct, nor do I understand why it would have taken such a long period to prepare the report.

Bob Wallace

We have a juvenile alleged to have had some kind of improper contact,

William Taylor

While the defense cannot prove responsibility, it can show the court there is some relevant information which points away from...the alleged guilt of the two accused.

James Rubin

will meet with Serb and Kosovo Albanian leaders and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and will visit sites in the Kosovo countryside where alleged human rights violations have occurred.

Tom Rowe

We are obviously concerned regarding the most recent allegation of a document bearing an invalid signature. We have cooperated fully with the FBI with regard to the alleged forged document and will continue to do so. We also hope to identify the wrongdoer in the event the questionable signatures are indeed forgeries.

Romulo Macalintal

The President will not be impeached because of alleged election irregularities.

Chino Moreno

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

David Hewson

In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Craig Thompson

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water

Max Gillespie

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

Russ Dondero

It defeats the purpose of debates when the incumbent is unwilling to defend his record.

Charles Schumer

one of the finer debates that I have heard in 18 years in the House.

Maajid Nawaz

Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

Bill Bradley

We're going to have two debates in Iowa in January, ... You can't have a debate in Iowa without agriculture being a major part of it. So we're going to debate agriculture in Iowa.

William Daley

There are three debates and I think the American people are going to make a decision after they see all three formats,

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

Michael Johns

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Rob Stutzman

Our decision to participate with the CBA was that they are the organization that has most successfully sponsored gubernatorial debates in the last two election cycles,

Ralph Nader

of increasing the number of presidential debates and including more voices in those debates.

Ben Barnes

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

William Gibson

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Dave Miley

We could have gotten out of here with a split if we were able to execute.

Avery Johnson

We could have gotten a little lethargic. We won't rule it out.

Randy Houser

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Paula Creamer

I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

Pierce Brosnan

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

Stacy Baker

We had our chances. We just never could get that big hit. We should have gotten Kate more runs.

Anita McLane

We were so young last year and this year playing with the same group has helped. They are playing real well and have gotten better over the season.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

Joni Vaughan

That was huge. I was happy to see we were able to handle that pressure and not let it get to us.

Jeremiah Driansky

We could not jam it. We stuck 24 pieces of paper into the mouth and it was still able to handle that, without jamming.

Eddie Olczyk

We've had many mature 18-year old players that have come into this league and handled a lot. Not many have come in with the hype and the buildup as he has and he's handled it very well.

Chris Payne

We're working with our friends at Vauxhall VXR on how they want to handle the end of production.

Gerald Walsh

We just couldn't handle their press and we shot terrible. I thought our shooting and the inability to handle the press were the keys to the game. The first three minutes of the third quarter made a huge difference, too.

Jaret Wright

You just hope he's able to handle it all. It can be tough to live up to the expectations.

Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Carrie Brownstein

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

Carrie Underwood

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

Carrie Underwood

I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

Bethany Hamilton

I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.

Bernadette Devlin

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

Bernadette Devlin

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Aron Ralston

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

Bill Vaughan

Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Michelle Snow

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots and when you have your veterans that are not shooting (well),

Robbie Nichols

We will recognize our players at the end of the season.

Nicole Scott

We wanted to make sure their post players didn't score a lot inside. That was important for us.

Steve Bender

We've made tremendous progress. Our inexperienced post players have come long way, and our freshmen.

Urs Linsi

We have to make sure the players don't suffer from burnout.

Bobby Cox

Usually you have two players for one position,

Rich Rodriguez

Most of our players have never been in there before.

Ron Zook

You have to do what you feel like your players do best,

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Charles Abrams

We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.

Yaya Toure

To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Robert Irwin

I always look to see if other properties have turned around, because if you're the first in you may really get hammered,

Rick Reed

He has made several airplanes essentially to scale and proper proportion.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.