Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Fincher

When we first got to him, with his color, we feared he might not make it.

Stephen Crane

A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.

Rep. Bell

This is what we feared would happen. It will always be an issue with those of us who do not want the state to be made into a gambling Mecca.

Cornelius Nepos

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Arthur Conan

A wave of panic passed over the vessel, and these rough and hardy men, who feared no mortal foe, shook with terror at the shadows of their own minds.

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Peter Judge

And the risks that we have feared all day are still on the table: the potential power outages, the coastal flooding from the astronomically high tides over the next two days. These haven't gone away.

Japanese Proverb

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

Chip Rogers

I would regularly hear from blue-collar workers who feared losing their jobs because they didn't speak Spanish.

Jim Sensenbrenner

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Becky Ault

We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.

Randy Miller

Any flooding is an issue, ... We?re just thankful we were able to recover from the flooding we?ve had.

Ron Shindoll

Normally, we wouldn't have problems with street flooding until we get 1½ to 2 inches of rain.

Bob Riley

The primary threat posed by Hurricane Katrina is going to be flooding from storm surge, so those being evacuated just need to make sure they reach higher ground.

Joe Thomas

Flooding is the big killer when it comes to hurricanes.

Don Gibson

Flooding is addressed in permits, water quality is addressed in permits, stability... just some of the things I've heard here tonight.

Zhu Rongji

even more severe flooding than that in 1998.

Tom Warner

We want to give people a heads up. The potential is there for heavy flooding rains.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charles Lamb

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charlaine Harris

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

Charlie Kaufman

clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.

Bill Watterson

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

Tony Blair

There is no point in speculating what happens down the line if you reach an impasse. But there is a lot of processes that have to be gone through before you are at that point, not least the Security Council.

Jim Taylor

We've always gone non-smoking in communities where (a ban) has passed.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Matt Millen

We started off the season with high expectations,

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Madeleine Albright

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

William Mosher

Whether the levels (of condom use) are high enough is for others to judge. But I think it's at least encouraging.

Jonathan Davies

When I was in high school, I wasn't a jock, I was into art, drama, and music, and I wore eyeliner, so I wasn't accepted.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

David Foster

We spent the night at a parking lot until the next morning.

Carolyn Wells

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Chad Whitworth

We have to get better the next two weeks and come out ready to work and execute.

Alan Kulwicki

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Charlie Chaplin

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

Cherie Lunghi

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Roger Romines

We've got a really young team this year. If they stick with it, they have the potential to get one of those scholarships that are out there.

Bobby Collins

We feel that the potential is unlimited for Wise County.

Amy Vanderbilt

They're worried about potential under-cutting of the road surface.

Hines Ward

It's tough to go undefeated, but they have the potential.

Jeff Gordon

It's not there yet, but it has the potential.

Jim Leach

This is the stickiest part in any potential discussions,

Paul Tobias

There's a potential for abuse. I'm sure there's been grumbling.

Brian Billick

There's always the potential via the rehab if it flares up again. That potential always exists.

Jeff Ulbrich

sees a ton of potential in every single guy.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Watts

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Bill O'Reilly

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Anant Agarwal

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats,

Silius Italicus

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Shirley Manson

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Mariah Carey

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

Jewel

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Gregory Bateson

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Jesse Ventura

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Gregory Benford

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.