Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Steven Camarota

The whole idea that 'America has a 5 percent unemployment rate and therefore clearly we need lots of immigrant labor' is very foolish.

Joe Biden

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

Dennis Hastert

The United States of America is prosperous and free. But storm clouds gather on our horizon. Our national security is challenged by the continued malfeasance of Saddam Hussein. Our economic security is challenged by a growing worldwide recession. Our future is bedeviled by too many schools that perform poorly and by a Social Security system in need of reform,

Jalal Talabani

The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest.

Ezra Taft Benson

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

George H. W. Bush

The United States may not necessarily be dependent on foreign aid, but the donation presented by Kuwait is an expression of solidarity with the people of America and a small contribution in efforts to help the victims of the hurricane,

Jay Harrington

The way this tournament is run, this is the last true tournament in America. You can't go anywhere in the country and find the way that people treat you here. ... We've been treated like kings, and we appreciate it.

J. Hoover

We've really worked hard and pushed ourselves. We've done a lot of team plans on bars and beam to emphasize consistency throughout the whole lineup, and I think that's shown us that we can work harder that we have been.

Don Young

Management's conservative guidance might be more a function of lowering the bar to facilitate exceeding expectations rather than a change in the company's fundamental growth outlook,

Mike Soule

We've tried different things. I run karaoke on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, and my overhead on that is a lot less. My basement bar is a dance club. I have a house system and I pay a DJ, but that's nothing compared to the cost of a band.

Harry Kemp

We never sit back and relax. The bar keeps moving up and like a football game we may celebrate right after the game, but on Saturday morning we are planning for the next win. We are constantly striving for the next level,

Cynthia Canary

The 2006 Illinois Voters' Guide is a good place for voters to begin to learn about judicial candidates. It includes a primer on the state's court system, a map to help voters identify which candidates will be on their ballot, and several links to web sites where voters can find more information about the candidates, various bar associations, Illinois courts and elections. Most importantly, it contains the information most relevant to voters when they think about what sort of person they want to see on the bench.

Nick Fry

The 2005 season has been a challenging one for BAR Honda, but we have pulled together throughout to resolve our issues and to continue to develop the car,

Brandon Copeland

That was a little too much. I went to the bar and said 'You know what? I'm done.' It's not really worth it.

Clara Mamet

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

Natasha Leggero

My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

John Drinkwater

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sheryl Swoopes

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

O. Singh

Through their stubborn mindedness, and by wearing their disguises, they are deluded, they suffer in pain from the love of duality.

Rich Beem

You have to play by feel and I love that,

Sylvia Earle

You have to love it before you are moved to save it.

Cynde Frankel

The one thing they share is a love of animals.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Nate Longshore

We all love Steve. It was sweet watching him do his thing.