Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John Kerry admitting that he offers no credible alternatives to the policies in Iraq, and admitting that his suggestions are proposals that the administration is already doing: involving NATO, involving the U.N. and training Iraqi security forces.

Monica Johnson

Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I've been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don't want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.

Martin McClain

I think the need for compensation in Alan's case is obvious, but there's also a need for rehabilitation. I definitely think there should be some compensation or assistance. On the other hand, I don't want other prosecutors to see this and be afraid that admitting a mistake is going to be costly.

Warren Christopher

I think the country will come together, but we have a rocky four years ahead, and maybe admitting that, and not being too euphoric about that, is the best way to face this. This is going to be a very evenly divided country, and we'll need to find centrist coalitions that can get things done.

Naomi Fink

What might prompt some dollar fears is that the United States is closer to admitting the deficits are a big problem.

Kevin Bacon

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

John Shillito

It kind of recharged my battery, ... Being in my late 40s, and that's all I'm admitting to, it was kind of nice to have a year off. I think I learned a little.

Nancy Gibbs

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

Rory Robertson

The longer the Fed drags this out without cutting rates, the more they're admitting they don't have much firepower at all. They're sitting on their hands, hoping for the best.

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Wayne Dyer

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Ann Kaplan

These are large research institutions, and a lot of these very big gifts go toward supplying infrastructure for, and paying for things like, medical research.

Don Jr.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

Myles Munroe

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mark Edwards

I would think they will have some pretty good success at leasing the building, especially with the amenity of on-site parking.

Denny Green

I would think he's going to be out at least two preseason games. We're just happy that it's not real serious -- there's a lot of pain, obviously. And he should be as good as new.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Liz Gliem

I couldn't have done it without my teammates. Getting 1,000 points is a nice accomplishment but the win means more to me.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Tom Driscoll

We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Lorrie Miller

It is just as open to me as it is to them.

E. Hicks

I welcome them all with open arms. At least we can get through practice.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Richelle Mead

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Winston Churchill

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Will Harvey

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Matt Bingham

His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient,

Anton LaVey

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Kimberly Elise

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Robbie Coltraine

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Holbrooke

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Richard Hofstadter

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Jim Hickey

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts,

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

John Heimlich

I will be very surprised if there is not a proposal.

Jeff Candage

I'd be surprised that he would do something like that.

Sanaa Lathan

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

Phil McGraw

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Ladrika Gross

They're taking this pretty easy. They're taking it better than I thought they would.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Nathan Rosane

In U.S. ways so that when we leave, we don't have to come back.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.

Andrew Jones

It's really sad, but in a lot of ways it was time.

Warren McCormick

Not at all. But there are ways to do it properly." ()

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.