Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Aronsohn

I've been planning to declare my candidacy for a few weeks, and her action did not affect my decision. I hope and expect we can come together as a party and community.

Elie Wiesel

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Sidney Lumet

We all have a prejudice about action films. It's sort of like, if they're beautiful and blonde, she can't act, and we should know better by now. I've heard it from people, 'What are you doing, doing a picture with Vin Diesel?' They're not giving him the credit he deserves. Sometimes, I just say, 'Wait till you see him in the picture.

Maryanne Ingemanson

We all expected they would appeal. They just continue to drag things along, which is, unfortunately, one of the difficulties against legal action against a government entity.

Josh Hartnett

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

Pope VI

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Kate Warne

Everyone thinks they'll say, 'We'll continue to be watchful and concerned about rising inflation but at the same time we're comfortable that no action needs to be taken,'

Karen White

Every program we have in EMILY's List you will see in action in Michigan in 2006 and beyond.

Juan Zarate

Everyday the hunt for Iraqi assets unveils more and Hussein's thievery from the Iraqi people, ... Taking international action to identify and freeze funds pilfered by the fallen regime is crucial to the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Jennifer McCormick

The United States can't allow its technology and scientific strengths to lessen because it will affect competitiveness.

Mike Holman

We've really begun to look at the base of coaches and tried to broaden that. Coaches are going to go back and affect 20 or 30 boys and girls a year.

Al Sharpton

What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.

David Foley

We tried to get as much input from the public to make this decision as we could. Which I felt like its gonna be something that's gonna affect everyone, its gonna affect everyone in the future.

Gail Goestenkors

We just lost to two great teams ... but I think people are looking at our record thinking we're on a downslide. Because Maryland is such a great team, I don't think it should affect our seeding.

Marc Conti

We just want the kids to play as hard as they can. It doesn't matter if we're playing the New York Yankees or the Bad News Bears. We can't let the opponent affect the way we play. Anybody who comes in here is going to want to beat us.

Devereaux Peters

We weren't getting some calls, and I think that bothered us in the first half. But we didn't let that type of stuff affect us in the second half.

Michael Franke

When a guy goes on injured reserve, he does not count against the cap. So if a guy is making $700 a week and he's out for two weeks, and then you bring in a guy to replace him for $400 a week, you're actually saving $300 a week on the cap. You still pay (the first guy) his full salary; it just doesn't affect the cap.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Tom Hanks

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

Jose Theodore

Nobody relaxes in the playoffs. Getting the fourth win is the toughest. We expect to see their best.

Kingston Lin

Nine Dragons' performance was in line with market expectation. Though there was some profit-taking, I expect the stock to post further gains as the price is still cheap.

Howard Wolfson

New Yorkers can 'absolutely not' expect more from her.

Rick Lorson

On our waters in the southwest, we can expect good fishing up to Memorial Day, whereas in the southeast, it's usually only good to the middle of May.

Sue Allen

I am shocked. It is quiet here, especially this part of the estate. I wouldn't expect this. It is just shocking.

Mike Ford

But they're not worried. The tests showed that everything was fine, and he's going to be fine. He still has numbness, but I expect he'll be working out, and he should be in our lineup Sunday.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Beth McNamara

We gave it a good fight today. Our team hustled and did a few things well and a few things not so well that we will work on, ... We made a few mistakes defensively and they capitalized. They made some really good plays.

Jeremy Davies

We had a few turnovers and they capitalized. I was proud of the guys we had on the floor. We put up a good battle.

Bobby Sandquist

We had a few too many fouls, but that's probably the result of it being a typical, physical CIML-type game. It was a good win for us.

Carolyn Compton

We had a few silly fouls that we'll need to get rid of if we are to step up at the next level.

Klaus Augenthaler

We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.

Royce Chadwick

We had a few more post players than they did, off the bench, that were able to take it at 'em.

Matt McCool

We had a few mistakes here and there, but it wasn't too sloppy. We had more positives than negatives and that's what we've got to have." ()

Tim Funkhouser

We had a few mistakes here and there. But for a first game you have to be pretty pleased.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Anne Sexton

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing....

Anne Sexton

I'll vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up....

Corita Kent

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Elihu Root

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Angie Martinez

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

Susan Cain

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Rihanna

I have several videos on my phone that I’ve never released. Having dance parties in our car, don’t be jealous!

Mark Steyn

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Nora Ephron

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

Michael Scheuer

When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.

Evan Bayh

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.