Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matteo Renzi

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Philip Treacy

Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

John Boles

He's attached to the strike zone. His stuff stays in the zone. It's fun to watch, because he gets the defense involved. With him, he has deception to his delivery.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

Jessica Hecht

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

Eric Bruntlett

I'm not that attached to it, I guess.

John Walker Lindh

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

Liberty Bailey

If there is no land, there are porches or windows, balconies or small green spaces attached to houses.

Mike Summers

I looked down at my key ring, and she had attached the Proverbs 31 heart bauble from her purse.

Rohan Verplank

Katie sometimes has a tendency to check her speed, but I've never seen her complete a race with that much focus.

Brent Liskai

Jordan's a good, clutch player. The shot went up and I turned my head to check on rebound position. That's how we play. If you have an open shot, take it.

Dave Risdon

I swear I check that twice a day.

Javed Miandad

I also look at it as a security risk of sorts because there is no check on who the tickets are being distributed too.

Bryan Adams

He wants it to be great. He phoned me every day just to check in, to see if there's anything I need. It's great to have someone with that kind of enthusiasm. It makes you work harder.

Wimar Witoelar

He did not say he expects to be impeached... We have checked the recording... he recognizes the possibility of impeachment, he didn't say that he would be impeached.

Timothy Sr

He'd check on my girls at night make sure they were safe.

Isiah Thomas

He checked out fine. They found it was more or less him being tired and him not eating.

Clyde Guinn

Guests will check in, plug in and stay in.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Will Durant

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Will Durant

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Will Durant

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Will Durant

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Will Durant

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Albion W. Small

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Jill Lepore

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jonah Goldberg

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.

Source Unknown

A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.

John Reid

It is right that people should be able to have a civilized drink at whatever time they want,

Sam Harris

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Marthinus Schalkwyk

This is something that no civilized country can continue to tolerate,

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Chris Cook

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Kofi Annan

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

Thomas Lee

He was up here to find someone he had a conflict with in the past.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Vladimir Putin

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

Robert Kiyosaki

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

James Kallstrom

You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane.

Larry Brown

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

Iyad Allawi

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Sean Howard

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Keith Brooking

Just to be dead honest with you, a lot of it I think was on us, the linebackers.

Cyril Connolly

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Algernon Swinburne

Here, where the world is quiet;/ Here, where all trouble seems/ Dead winds' and spent waves' riot/ In doubtful dreams of dreams.

Phil Garner

He's hot. We all know he's a dead fastball hitter.

Jusuf Kalla

It is predicted -- and it's still a rough estimate -- that the number of the victims of dead may be between 1,000 and 2,000,

Jeff Pustina

I think we might have to extend the deadline tonight.

Steve Trachsel

It had been dead quiet in there until that play.

Rick Minter

I think they were given up for dead last year, and this year, they've been kind of a maligned group.

Irish Sayings

It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead

Mickey Loomis

I knew what his desires were, but we didn't get to that point. We talked about four or five different scenarios.

Steve Green

It took a lot of hard work and a lot of hours, and it took a lot of heart and dedication. I've never had a whole lot of anything, so I've always had my desires and my dreams.

J. Taylor

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Source Unknown

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Rig Veda

A person, who desires godliness should worship gods.

Debbie Ford

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Sathya Baba

You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.

Kate Bosworth

The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

Marshall Cohen

Like Nike, Adidas also needed a better fashion fit and Reebok provides that.

Ryan Lochte

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Ryan Lochte

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

Rose Byrne

I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

Tyga

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

Troye Sivan

I think I realize now I was really, really scared to express myself through fashion or certain music or certain TV shows. I was petrified that anyone would ever think I was gay god forbid, and so, once I got over that I kind of could just let myself be.

Trinny Woodall

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

Trey Songz

I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses for fashion. And I don't wear too many shades because my fans love to see my eyes.

Guillermo Coria

I was losing feeling on the hand, ... It has been happening for four days. I had a lot of treatment...but during the match, the more I serve, the more it gets tight -- the forearm, the shoulder. I knew it could happen. That's just the way it is.

Robbie Grinestaff

I wouldn't say I'm fully recovered. I'm still kind of feeling it.

Jerry Miller

Jordan was feeling a little flat out there. I'm not sure why. We'll sort that out. We've been working pretty hard.

Keith Jones

I talk to them the way I talk to them. Missy talks the way she talks to them. The way Sam talks ? 'You're going to be OK; this is what you're feeling; this is why you're feeling it.' ? is a little different. Then we send them to the pit bulls. They do what they need to do to get it done.

Steve Foley

Guys don't want to feel that feeling again, ... We just have to make sure it motivates us in a positive way.

Bruce Miller

He's a great one. He really is, ... Sorry. This is too good to be true. Here's a kid that lost everything. And we could accommodate, that we could provide him something that he wasn't going to have, it's just a good feeling that comes over you.

Torry Holt

He said he was feeling better. He has a pretty good spirit about things, and that's the most important thing. That helps us. If he's high-spirited, then we can go out and be high-spirited.

Aaron Nelson

He said he was feeling a lot better.

Drew Olson

He's been playing with a heavy heart. We're all there for him. We're feeling what he's feeling.

Chuck Hillery

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Ed Pendt

I yelled at (Scheffer) as she was going by to go to the hoop. She went to the hoop, got fouled and made the free throws.

Gary Mills

He didn't shoot a great percentage this year, but he always makes his free throws when the game's on the line.

James Blake

He didn't get many free points on his serve and I was getting some on mine,

Jakob Bohme

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Mark Knowles

I think it's good to not rush out there. School is a fun time and there's nothing wrong with a free education.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

George Foster

Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.

Bob Garner

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Mike Moore

I think they will respond to our ideas in Shanghai,

Rob Enderle

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

Roger Wyer

Joy is here now. We don't have to wait for the weekend.

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

Rob Halford

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

William Wordsworth

And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.

Sara Zarr

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Joy is your birthright.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Jeremy Roenick

I think it indicates the state of our game, the lack of respect especially in preseason,

Jim Bowden

He was able to pitch with the tear. His lack of performance had to do with the tear.

Jud Gartman

We are going to run the ball. We can't throw it a lot because of our lack of speed. We have to do what we can do best.

Stephanie Cravens

Lack of understanding about roles/responsibilities results in violation of statutes on board's part.

Saeb Erekat

I think we have a major problem in the lack of credibility of the peace process and the trust between the two sides.

Rob Andrew

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

Tony Pinto

Our beef, for lack of a better word, is with FEMA, not with the victims.

Sophia Drossos

Reinforcement of imbalances and lack of saving in the United States is not dollar-friendly.

Ted Knight

I prefer what I remember to what is going on today. I don't like what I see today, the irresponsibility, the lack of moral values, permissiveness, lack of respect for the elderly, irresponsibility toward society. It depresses me.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Stephen Sondheim

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Shah Rukh Khan

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

Shyam Selvadurai

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Dusty Baker

He wanted to play. He didn't want to be out too long because then you lose your stroke.

Larry Sandburg

We've done that three times now. The only two loses we've had were the other two.

Ken McCloud

To get here and lose is all right." ()

Chanda Gunn

I think we were disappointed, obviously very disappointed, to lose the semifinal, so we wanted to come out and show what a special team we are and I think we did that.

Hilary Swank

I think it's unfortunate that things are seen as winners or losers because in the end, it's the performance that matters.

Antonio McDyess

I was a little more motivated for the win. It was my first finals. To lose like we did, I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.

Jordan Zuppe

We made up our minds we weren't going to lose again.

Kevan Barlow

I didn't lose no pep in my step. If we can get together on offense, we can get the same things going.

Jim Bowden

I did not want to lose him, ... His record is outstanding in the four-year period he's been here.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Daniel O'Connell

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

Robert Wright

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

Walter Lippmann

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Rick Riordan

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.

E. B. White

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

Marc Almond

I'm always aware of mortality.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Julie Gerberding

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Kabir Bedi

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

Patrick Chappatte

I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Mark Serdjenian

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Adam Marcoux

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

Charles Jones

It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Irvin Lippman

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

Sara Gruen

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Donald Rumsfeld

I'm not sure I should have said that, ... Let's pretend I didn't say that.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Edmund White

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Patrick Freitas

He just stayed up every time. He had the respect of the gym.

Sonny Rollins

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Lenny Wilkens

I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

Richard Dawkins

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Robert Towne

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Sanford I. Weill

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

Walter Annenberg

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

Rod Stewart

I don't have any social life or anything.

Ronald Reagan

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

Lamar S. Smith

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

Friedrich Engels

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Hilary Mantel

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

Gil Kane

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

Robin Ince

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.