Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Gordon Brown

It is no longer about promises of aid tomorrow, it is about signing up today to concrete actions starting now to deliver for every child in the world the chance of education.

Robert Hall

There aren't any agencies that I know that can take punitive actions against the city in regard to worker safety.

Colleen Kelley

We made known our differences at that time, and since then, through our determined and thus far successful legal actions against the department's regressive personnel rules.

Brian Pozzi

Hurricanes have hit downstate New York, and hurricanes will hit downstate New York again. Our very high market share numbers therefore compelled us to take appropriate, measured actions that balance the best interests of customers, shareholders, agency owners, employees and the community at large.

James Nesbitt

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

Walt Blomberg

He taught us with his actions as well as his words -- he taught the power of nonviolence for human dignity. He was a humble man from ordinary beginnings who became a great man and a hero and one of our greatest teachers.

Doc Rivers

He's back. We had another talk. It went well, but actions obviously speak louder than words.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Emily Dickinson

Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade, But Light a newer Wilderness, My Wilderness has made

Daniel Gibson

I think what happened opened his eyes. Something you love can be taken at any time. He's borne that out through the season. He came out motivated.

William Congreve

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.

Monica Raymund

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ronald Curry

He has such a great personality a lighthearted personality that kind of draws people to him. Some people are born leaders, and he's a born leader.

Richelle Mead

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

Rebecca Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

James Woods

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

Don Allison

Being selected to guide this historic property through its next phase of development is an honor and an exciting opportunity. Our goal is to develop a project that honors the historical significance and small-town charm of Young's Farm and the surrounding area.

Randy Daniels

This is a guy who has never been hit. The rest of us knows what it's like. He's led a charmed life and the next couple of months he's going to learn the price of running ... It's not the rosy scenario the fawning press has painted.

LaVerne Knox

Third time's the charm, and it's about time.

William Shakespeare

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

John Ruskin

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

LaVerne Knox

Third time's the charm, and it's about time.

Mark Mears

We're hoping the third time will be the charm. Winning a state title has been our goal all season.

Dav Pilkey

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Joe Wills

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that will happen in Merced, too.

Duke Snider

He was a very charming man, ... It was a pleasure to have him in our school district.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Nadrine Stocker

I think it may have just been stress. My grandmother died on Feb. 9 the year before and I was thinking about that and it may have triggered the labor.

William Morris

He did not die in the night, / He did not die in the day, / But in the morning twilight / His spirit passed away.

Terry Beauford

I thought Carlos did a heck of a job. We are going to live and die with him. He just needs some more reps. He will get better with each game.

Chuck Feeney

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

Jandy Nelson

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

Leslie Williams

I didn't move away from Jack because of money. I moved away from Jacques-Imo's because I wanted to get away from frying, ... I'm going to die. But I'm not going to die over that fryer.

Ciputra

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

Mike Costello

He is not welcome in my bar, and he is never welcome until I die or sell the place.

Jeff Phillips

He fought for that until the day he died and would still be fighting that.

John Ashbery

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Theodore Parker

I am conscious of eternal life.

Gregory Maguire

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

Emily Lau

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,

Salman Rushdie

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

Susan Sontag

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

John Webster

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

John Williams

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Mason Cooley

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

Patricia McConnell

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.

Jacqueline Carey

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Rosemary Dillard

He should be murdered, killed. I mean, this man has no remorse.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Ron Gardenhire

He's pitching like a man on a mission on the mound.

Javier Valentin

I don't know, man. ... What can I say?

Najam Sethi

He will in a way be saying; I am the man in Pakistan. Don't do anything to destabilize me. Don't be misguided by liberals,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who seizes the right moment, is the right man

Michael Parenti

The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

Robert Gottlieb

The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi.

John Cusack

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Joanne Harris

A thing named is a thing tamed.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

Kevin Bleyer

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

Khalil Gibran

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

Khalil Gibran

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Khalil Gibran

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Helmut Newton

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Juan Williams

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.