Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

Joe Garcia

The National Congress of American Indians strongly believes that it is time for Congress to move forward with a fair settlement.

Lee H. Hamilton

The structure of the intelligence community has not changed since 9/11. The commission believes the status quo is unacceptable, ... This legislation is necessary to make the American people safer and more secure. We believe it must be enacted before the 108th Congress adjourns.

Hilary McLean

The superintendent believes strongly that those students need to continue with their education because those are baseline skills that they need once they enter the workforce.

Christine Anderson

Eliot believes the way you earn the public and the party's support is by working hard, playing by the rules and speaking about the real issues that matter to the people of this state. Eliot learned this first hand. At the 1994 convention he was forced to go the petition route and after years of hard work in 1998 he was able to earn the support of the delegates. It wasn't easy but it was an important part of the process.

Peter Kellner

Blair has done what he thinks is right. Even though it's very unpopular, he's taken the view that he should stand there proud and defend what he believes in and not bend to opinion polls.

Natan Sharansky

Bibi Netanyahu believes our people are strong. We will be ready for painful concessions but only when and if we have a partner we can live together with, who also wants to live in peace.

James D'arcy

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

James Caan

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Kevin Riley

Flutter spoons are my favorite and usually my most productive presentation. Try tying a spoon on the bend of your dart hook.

Mark Mack

We wanted it to be an updated version of Sinatra and Darin's type of music, ... We wanted to give a little more of a youthful bend to it, because I think there are a lot of young people that would be interested in this music.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

John Greuniesen

(He) tried to bend the bars, couldn't quite get through and lost their drawers on the way through.

Allan Cutler

One of the discussions I had with Stephen Harper is that I wouldn't bend for anybody,

Sharon Kay Penman

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

Bertie Ahern

As all parties examine the proposals that Tony Blair and I issued them, no doubt they will have some points of clarification. Already Mr. Trimble has stated he has some.

Kenneth Clarke

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Thom Yorke

Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned.

Vic Binkley

We were fortunate to get out of here with a win. We were lucky. We're going to have to find a way to win without Blair (Dunn, a sharp-shooting guard who's out until at least next week with mono).

Joe Wilson

Mr Blair came to the US when Mr Bush was talking about regime change, and when he left Mr Bush started talking about disarmament as the objective.

Jeff Turner

We were new in the office business, so we brought Blair on board because he's a seasoned veteran. We told him he'd be a rock star if he leased some of the building -- instead he leased the whole thing.

Gerry Adams

We hope that Mr. Blair will settle Mr. Trimble down and will bring him face-to-face with his responsibilities,

Gordon Brown

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

Channel Four

For the first time perhaps since (1979 to 1990 prime minister) Margaret Thatcher we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair -- one of the most skilful politicians of modern times,

Dave Wannstedt

No question, we've seen it all. There's nothing in there we won't have seen. But as a defensive coach, you can't worry about defending ghosts. You can talk all you want about a team and the way they do things, but it comes down to what gets done on the field,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

Jacques Chirac

defend Europe, the economic, financial and social interests of Europe.

Doc Sadler

The strength of their team is that they are able to shoot the basketball. They've got three guys averaging in double figures. The key to the game is that we have to defend the perimeter and keep them off the offensive glass.

Rasual Butler

I want be someone that they know will defend them, ... They're all one-on-one players who come at you every night.

Ariel Sharon

The most important test the Palestinian leadership will face is in fulfilling their commitments to put an end to terror and its infrastructure, ... Until they do so, Israel will know how to defend itself.

Bob Hofman

So, we've got to defend that post play.

Josh Dollard

I've never had to hold on to one that big before. I really don't know how we're going to defend him in the paint.

James Rubin

It would be a grave mistake for people to test their willingness to defend themselves.

Cam Newton

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Bobby Knight

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

Claude C. Hopkins

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

Clive James

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

Dinesh D'Souza

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

Chuck Klosterman

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Anthony de Mello

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

Daniel Kahneman

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Ray Baumbach

I served because I wanted to. I was proud to be a soldier.

Tracy Byrd

The whole state of Texas has really stepped up on this thing, and I'm especially proud to be a Texan today.

Doug Light

That's what we've been working on. I was so proud of how we were patient.

Charlie Smythers

You're never satisfied. Like I told the guys, I'm disappointed. But we are very proud of the season we had. And I'm real proud of those guys.

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Dennis Eckersley

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

John Dryden

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm

David Mitchell

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.