Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Steve Lantsberger

We have never, ever used that authority, ever. We have never run out and taken someone's property ever, that's just not the way we do business here.

Jeff Matteson

Whenever you have a concern about a group of kids, you have to get those with authority together to discuss it.

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Lucy Lawless

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Brian Schneider

We've actually talked about that a little bit. That's part of the reason I wanted to start catching him. Any time you catch somebody and you're more familiar with him, it helps, especially with as big as these games are going to be.

Wendy Rosenbach

We usually have to catch someone in the act. But it's always a good idea to dispose of it properly, and depending on the rate of decay, our wildlife people may want to examine the remains.

Davis III

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

Nolan Sotillo

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'

Willie Smith

We want him to catch everything in front of us. We don't want him to catch any long passes. If we can keep him over the middle, we have good linebackers that can make him pay.

Billy Wilder

God save me from myself.

Jack Campbell

There is no one that can catch that ball. That was at least a double for sure.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're starting to catch the technology wave and stocks tied to Internet are the stand-outs.

Louise Leakey

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

James Norton

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

Nostradamus

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Floyd Abrams

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

John Smith

The more I think about what I did, the more lucky I feel today. It has been two years now and it is already a distant memory.

Simeon Rice

A distant memory. Many moons ago. Now, we're looking forward. It's the future. We're living it now. We're in the moment. It's a whole another ballgame. It's a whole another perspective. It's this year. It's about what we have. It's about pioneering back to new things and getting ourselves back to winning things like Super Bowls.

Isabella Bird

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Roger Smith

We couldn't take any more orders for that year. People also wanted their goods as soon as they ordered, they didn't want to wait for us to manufacture them some time in the distant future.

Rob Hinchliffe

At this point, the excitement surrounding what now look to be relatively small health-care concessions is but a distant memory.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Abdul Aziz

The (number) of forces taking part in security in the hajj this year is around 60,000.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Allan Mayer

The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, but people are realizing that other forces at work are more powerful, which no one can quite identify yet.

Jerry Jones

Some teams had to sacrifice to get this done. This proposal (from the union) is really a mean mother. It forces us to really make some adjustments to how we do business.

Nancy Corona

Some don't stop and just keep going until weather forces them down.

Doug Melvin

Sometimes, you have to meet face-to-face to get things done. It forces the issue.

Geoff Hoon

the right group of forces for the sort of tasks that may be necessary.

Condoleezza Rice

This is not the Gulf War coalition, where we all mobilize our military forces and march off to war after 100 days,

Terry Anderson

There is no money to pay any ransom, ... These were three nonpolitical missionaries working in an Indian village when they were taken. This was a mistake.

David Cardwell

It's no secret that the Indians and Orioles here are looking for new spring training deals.

Dinsha Patel

There will be no shortage of iron-ore, even in 2020, when Indian steel production is projected to rise to 100-million tons a year.

Nate Feltman

The whole plan is a statewide plan, so Northwest Indiana has as much potential as any other part of the state.

Abhishek Bachchan

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

A. Balasubramaniam

I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.

Morris Iemma

These are the toughest laws in the country.

Jason Catlett

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

William Cory

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

Charles Caleb Colton

Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

Alanis Morissette

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Alan Watts

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Moore

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Robin Cook

We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible,

Chogyam Trungpa

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Joel Sawyer

As we would like to appoint someone from every geographical region of the state, with only three appointments, we're not always going to be able to do that.

Edward Lincoln

They think there is a lot more going on in the region than that.

Dr. Etienne

This is the most inequitable region in the world.

Quincy Lewis

Any region win you can get, especially on the road, is good. We'll take any road win we can get.

Craig Drury

The teams in our region know he is a shooter, but I don't know if the teams up here do.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Cyrus Broacha

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

Guy Tauer

All other things being equal, we should remain in that 100,000 range, or slightly above.

John Prendergast

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Rick Adams

They're in situations where they remain on our list, but that's not for the public.

Jim Peters

a recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.

Bryan Sierra

The team that Noel put together is going to remain together. The investigation should not be impacted.

Charles de Gaulle

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

Bill Morrow

Terminals remain the single most important part of any proposition in Japan.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Larry Ammons

Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Charles M. Schwab

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

Esha Gupta

You cannot just scream and yell unless you feel it in your whole body.

Dave Henderson

There's nothing you can do unless you see it happen.