Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Cornelius

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Henry Hyde

I'm opposed to censure, ... Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

Javier Solana

I have no information whatsoever that tells me with certainty that any of the accusations, allegations, rumors, that have taken place are true.

Milovan Djilas

I had to follow that road, even if my steps were confused and indecisive. Otherwise I would not remain a man in my own eyes. For if I know something with certainty and I am convinced of its truth, how can I deny it, hide it from my closest friends; from the world and from myself?

zenshine

In certainty there is limitation; in uncertainty there is the loving magic of infinity dancing with our desires.

Robert James

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Paul Phillips

I know with a pretty strong certainty that Paul Gregory House was the murderer. And if I have to try him again, I will do it.

Tom Robbins

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Steven Ucherek

I think the closest we've ever been to El Paso is Austin.

Carlos Lee

I didn't get to play in the Olympics so this is the closest I can get. There's a lot of pride playing for your country.

Kelis

In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

Eve Ensler

closest to the core contaminated. They live near the reactor; their contamination is the most potent and consuming. As you get further away from the reactor, women are contaminated but not to the degree.

Laura Marling

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

Daniel Breaker

I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

Laura Linney

I found to my surprise that the man who was closest to him when he died had been a good friend to me in the last 10 years of his life. Yet after Delmore died, Milton never talked about him.

Chen Yonglin

I receive a message from one of my closest friends in China, working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that the government has sent -- one month ago -- a three-member team to conduct an operation called 'decapitation strike',

Grady Sizemore

I was confused for a second. I didn't know what was going on, ... If they were going to give me a choice, I was going to take the homer over the double.

Dominik Wilkins

I was confused because one ref signaled that time had expired and the other called a foul, so I wasn't sure.

Bobbie Williams

I was confused and all the material I read got me more confused. With all the things I got in the mail, it was hard to decide.

Andi Anderson

I think we just royally confused some winter campers.

Vivian Stringer

I think that because Connecticut represents national champions, people should not get confused about what Connecticut is. Connecticut is a national power. They have been defending national champions. What makes Connecticut great is because they represent such greatness and accomplishment. So (a win) would say a lot.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.

Jimmy Allen

I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could deter or confuse him. ... This man lived his whole life fighting for freedom.

Robert Belcher

I don't know what was the wisdom in that decision. It confused the mess out of everybody.

Rob Zombie

I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

Steve Saviano

(Kevin) is going to be a good goalie. I'm convinced of it. He's a big prospect for Carolina.

Ozzie Guillen

He convinced me he was ready to go. We need this kid. ... Especially with the two teams we might play, New York or Anaheim, we need two lefties (in the bullpen).

Julian Kurtz

The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We are going to sue you' - that got their attention. I've found that virtually nobody wants to obey the law and that nobody wants to enforce the law.

Ralph Preston

Gold is telling us that not everyone is convinced inflation is in check.

John Naughton

We're pretty much convinced it's not a rogue shark or a shark out there -- one shark that's doing all the damage.

David Clohessy

We suspect there are many more. We're convinced it's just a matter of time before it happens again.

Nick Spano

I think we need a strong New Yorker to head the ticket, ... hasn't convinced me he is the right person.

Filippo Luca

Latin American economies have made a leap to quality. We are totally convinced that this time the economic growth will be much more sustainable than it has been in the past.

Mike Bird

I watched it for two hours. My wife looked at it, my parents looked at it. Before long, I was firmly convinced that we were dealing with something real.

Nana Sutresna

In terms of denying the allegations - they used the words 'strongly deny' - they feel that this kind of measures has no foundation.

Rob Willman

I guess we're the favorite. I can't deny that.

Leslie Bonci

If you try to deny yourself, you can end up eating more by trying to eat around your craving.

Holly Cartner

Instead of going after the perpetrators of the massacre, the Uzbek government is trying to deny responsibility and silence witnesses.

Melissa Frame

In some ways I'm a pioneer. I know my limitations -- I can't deny them -- but I really have great parents who try to let me do as much as possible, and I've had people encourage me throughout my life, so I've never let it stop me, at least in theater.

Tom Perry

If there was no ordinance prohibiting time shares in an A-1 area, there would be no reason for me to deny registration, provided that they met the requirements of the state code.

Amity Gaige

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

Jason Robert Brown

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

Denise Bishop

In this case, there's no way to send people out. But you still can't deny people assistance.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Walt Miller

He knows how his mother was, he'll make suggestions and pass on information. He has quite a following there.

Tony Bui

Harvey kept going, 'Who's that guy following you around?,'

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Paul Anderson

He regards it as a very sensitive matter and will be following up when he returns.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Bruce Arena

I think it's critical. If we want this sport to grow, if we want to truly position ourselves to one day win a World Cup, we need support from the people that follow soccer in the United States.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Zora Hurston

If you haven't got it,/ you can't show it./ If you have got it,/ you can't hide it.

Parry Aftab

If you freak, the kids are just going to hide (their online activity).

Cierra Ramirez

I'm very well known for hiding my phone in really weird places. I can hide it in a refrigerator during a scene or under that bed. It's pretty bad, but at the end of the day we can all laugh at it.

Rachael Ray

If there are celebrities, they can't just come on and talk about their movie. It's come on and tell them how to get picky eaters to eat. Where do they hide their junk when people come over?

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Roger Clemens

I'm sure they could hide me in the outfield. Why not?

Yulia Tymoshenko

I'm not going to hide myself away - I'm not going anywhere.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Shane Victorino

He's a silent assassin. He's a big man and can be intimidating, but he's so soft-spoken. But you always know when he's around.

Jim Panyard

He's already promised to do it. If he's a man of his word, he'll do it.

Harry Redknapp

He's got one of the loveliest touches I've seen in a big man

Joyce Brown

He's just plain old Ronnie. But man, he sure can run.

Robert Rodriguez

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

John LaFontaine

There were times we weren't ready for the rebound. Otherwise we'd have had two or three more.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Pete Sepp

No spending reduction is easy, otherwise they would have been done a long time ago.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Tracy Morgan

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

George Glynos

It should remain in a 6.12 to 6.20 range.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Slim Jimmy

Around women, I try to remain calm and collected.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Jeff Borris

He's always had the weight of the world on his shoulders. But when he steps on the field, he's got tunnel vision.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

Richelle Mead

What...what are you doing?" "I won't know," he said with a grin. He took a step towards me. "But I'm pretty sure you were doing it too.

Regina Spektor

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

Tracy Spiridakos

When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.

Saint Francis de Sales

The Lord delights in every little step you take.

Vince Vaughn

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Zig Ziglar

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.