Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

David Gergen

That would give you protection against Democratic attacks and restore bipartisan spirit.

Dan Feagler

That was the first time they had ever beaten us. I think we had 12 or 13 in a row against them. We tried to switch defenses, and she got a three-pointer and put the game into overtime.

Pat Riley

That was the first time I ever called an open isolation against a 2-3 zone. He's a remarkable player and I'm glad to have him on my team.

Jason Hanson

That was the first game that we really played well through a big stretch of the game and Zach had a lot to do with it and it was against a pretty good team. The Saint Joseph-Ogden game was the same thing. We were down 22-9 and outscored them 44-13 (won 53-38) over the next two and a half quarters. For us to play that way was really something special to see. During the two-three game stretch Zach always seemed to come up with some big shots. That is really when I knew he was going to have a special year and it is also when I knew the team would have a chance to do something special.

Terry Youngbauer

That was the biggest shot of the game. That was a big momentum stopper there. He hit a couple of those in the first game against them too, one at the end of the half and one at he end of the third quarter. He took a couple of long ones that I questioned him about last game. Maybe he knows more than I know. He does a lot of things for us.

Bob Punter

That was the best defensive effort we've had against us that I can think of. We didn't quite have our way in the low post as we have all year. We didn't get a lot of good looks, and when we got good looks, we didn't make them. Shots that we made all year, we missed.

Young Buck

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

Young Buck

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

Yoshiro Mori

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

Yoshiro Mori

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thomas Wolfe

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Reza Aslan

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

Michael Leunig

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

Jason Schultz

Those who have been claiming that the DMCA does not threaten reverse engineering are plainly wrong, ... The DMCA has become a powerful anticompetitive tool, and that means consumers will see fewer innovative products in the marketplace.

David Bennett

Basically, we're claiming that we've opened a new window on the galaxy.

Vijay Mallya

I'm always claiming that 24 by 7 isn't enough. ... I love challenges,

Dan Doherty

The people that are claiming that it's going to end before 11 o'clock, I don't know what kind of math they're doing. It's disappointing.

Mikhail Kamynin

We are far from claiming a monopolist role in the post-Soviet space. At the same time, we feel sure that enforcing models of development from outside won't lead to any good. We have seen examples of that in the post-Soviet space, in the Middle East and in Africa.

William Wilkinson

He continues to issue press releases claiming that the court has already ruled that Mr. Noe committed a fraud. That's false.

John Key

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

Zadie Smith

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

Ellen Key

What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Elizabeth Hill

The overall plan moves the state in the wrong direction in terms of reaching its longer-term goal of getting its fiscal house in order.

Niall Horan

You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

Nicolas Roeg

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Steven Goldstein

Today's verdict is one step in that direction.

Sanjay Gupta

You are actually seeing some motivations and movement in Iowa in the right direction. That needs to be a national priority.

Joe Kuhn

We have to keep things going in the right direction now. I like how we are playing. The guys are going at it very hard. I like how we are playing.

Dalton Gooding

When that statement was made, it highlighted the significance of the situation. We will not divert from that statement.

Ron Shock

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

Barry Hyman

I think it's just more of the same. The Nasdaq is quickly approaching 5,000 and it's hard to divert money back to traditional stocks when the opportunities are so phenomenal in the new world economy.

Sam Morris

We want to remove organic material from the municipal solid waste stream and divert it to a higher and better use.

Benjamin Franklin

Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert

Bennett Miller

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

David Foster

To divert meaningful volumes of through-trucks from I-81 in Virginia, the upgraded rail line would need to handle six new trains per hour, not per day.

Ashok Kumar

We had to divert considerable resources from planning and development to security related matters.

Tom Rath

This is very much going to divert the agenda,

Dave Odom

We've had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonight.

Jerry Collins

We're waiting to hear from our people on the ground. Our efforts go to long-term recovery,

Hoshyar Zebari

will help the reconciliation efforts and the healing process.

Ken Johnson

We have ongoing efforts in all 50 states.

Edward Whelan

Judicial imposition of same-sex marriage seems to be on the horizon. We also oppose efforts to strip God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Russ Knocke

We are not talking about DOD taking over federal response efforts to a catastrophe from start to finish,

Steve Boylan

We are not redeploying units/personnel for the hurricane relief efforts as all the units/personnel here are required for the ongoing security and stability operations happening here in Iraq,

Rick Doyle

We have an obligation to make efforts to see if we can reach agreements, but we don't have to come into any agreement.

Clint Chamberlin

We had excellent efforts and we ran a smart race for the mid-80 temperatures.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Willa Fitzgerald

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

Dennis Christopher

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

Victoria Osteen

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

Nicolas Roeg

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Bertrand Russell

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

Scott Eastwood

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

Rami Malek

There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Frank Caliendo

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Chris Lemerise

We have to work harder when we get those (power play) chances.

Angela Griffin

We have to work harder to show distinction.

Dan Waterman

We just didn't play hard, it's as simple as that. They worked harder than we did.

Jerry Daugherty

We have three solid scoring threats now. It's a lot harder for defenses to key on only one of our players.

Mark Schmidt

We were slow, sluggish. It was like we didn't have our legs. It was like the harder you try, the harder you play, the worse it gets. It wasn't smooth.

Kerry Smith

Using a shovel that is too tall or too short for you only makes working with that particular tool harder on you.

Patricia Richardson

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

James McHugh

We have a message to suggest there are ways to maintain these costs.

Richard Parker

We have always been unique and we have always maintained the old-style structure and doctrine.

Jim Boyle

We're working-class people trying to maintain what we have.

Patrick Ramsey

You kind of go through the monotony of practice, and you have a routine that you go through, and you have to maintain the routine. And for me, personally, I didn't maintain that routine as well.

Martin O'Malley

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

Junichiro Koizumi

I will try to maintain the postal network, which is people's important assets, and see to it that no inconvenience will ensue,

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

John Short

I thought, 'I'm the expert, I've got to have some answers,' ... 'How am I going to solve this?'

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Buzz Hargrove

We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

MacGyver MacGyver

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.