Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun Treacy

It goes back 2 or 3 years when we began to see quite a large growth in our event business including meetings, conferences and banquets. Our whole business grew quite dramatically over the past couple of years and we felt we were running out of space.

JD Salinas

I thank Mr. Garcia for a good race and for bringing Hidalgo County this far. I've already began researching several issues that I consider critical to residents here, and I am ready to get to work.

Lindy Ruff

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

John Van Hamersveld

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Omar Bongo

In other words, the fundamental values (freedom, justice, equality of rights) began to be respected by France and the United States in the 1950s-1960s, after decolonization and assuring civil equality between Blacks and Whites.

Jessica Davenport

I hit some shots and then the outside game began clicking. They really had to respect our outside shooters, and it really opened it up inside for me.

Peter Coyote

In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Alex Garwood

I'm glad the people in New York are inspired by Pat, but he's ours somehow. It's not that they can't have part of him, but he's ours. As he started down this path of being this tremendous person, it began here.

Robin Trower

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

Craig Hansen

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

Dan Johnson

Heck yeah I knew I was playing. That's the only reason I changed my pants.

David Anders

The only thing that's changed is they've come out and made it very clear and public. They're being very vocal.

John Cleveland

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Gianfranco Pasquino

Had Berlusconi not changed the electoral law, he would have won. Next time Berlusconi ought to have better consultants.

Justin Kirk

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog was - his name first was Bear, but then it changed to Big, and he sort of looked like Old Yeller. And then we also had a three-legged dog named Foxy, who we found because her leg was in a trap.

Ticha Penicheiro

He's a great coach, he changed this franchise around. He's a competitor, we're a mirror of him. Defense wins championships, and look at where we are right now.

Richard Steele

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Garel Rhys

It's the underperformance of Mercedes that is holding the whole empire back. If you get Mercedes right, you go a long way toward getting all of DaimlerChrysler right.

Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Steven Erikson

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…

Sallust

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Stafford Cripps

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

Strobe Talbott

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.

Ralph Carlson

I think it's going to be a happening. I'd recommend going there. It's part of history.

Brian France

I think it's going to go down as an important point in our history. And I know they're (BEGIN BRACKET) Toyota (END BRACKET) looking at it from a long-term view.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

William Jennings Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

W. S. Gilbert

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Bobby Bowden

What do you lose? I think you probably lose your most solid, mature, leader and blocker.

Two Chainz

I see myself as a leader and not a follower.

Thomas Berger

We may not get a leader who is as cooperative as Koizumi.

Bill Grant

He was not only a leader of the party, but he was a confidant of the party as well.

H. Hunt

He was our only returning senior who played a lot, and I thought maybe he would try and be the man, but he was our leader in the way he played team basketball.

Quincy Douby

I am a leader on this team, and I'm the one taking a lot of the big shots in big games. It was my time to step up and take control.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Yogendra Yadav

He has become president precisely because he is a weak leader and no one thinks he would be a long term threat to them.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

Reggie Theus

It's everything I thought it would be. Us winning at Pacific and Louisiana Tech winning. Fresno State played Creighton very strong. It bodes well for us in general.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Bob Jones

We were still getting some oysters from waters in Louisiana and Texas and those may stop as soon as Rita makes landfall.

Jennifer Marusak

Voting is a right, but it's also a responsibility. The state of Louisiana spent over $2.5 million trying to find everyone and let everyone know what their voting rights are.

Simon Clark

We're obviously disappointed in that this is a massive shift in terms of restrictions on smoking in public places. However, it could have been a whole lot worse.

Marketing Manager

It is, however, quite rare to have a player have two massive wins within such a short space of time.

Walter Jon Williams

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Robert Goulet

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nancy Pelosi

I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

Nancy Pelosi

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

Jose Maria Aznar

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Jose Maria Aznar

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Joseph Addison

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Paolo Sorrentino

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Owen Wilson

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

Owen Wilson

I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

John Foxe

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Frank Dane

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Wallace Stegner

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Zaha Hadid

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Jonathan Swift

I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Jodi Picoult

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Oprah Winfrey

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

John Garamendi

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.