Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Jon Huntsman

We're interested in making sure we protect middle- and low-income Utah while stimulating economic development, ... we need to make it acceptable to legislators.

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Bertie Ahern

A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.

Tracy Bowen

It's just not acceptable anymore to litter, just like it's not acceptable anymore to dump anything into rivers or streams.

Michael Josephson

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

Riki Lindhome

The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on 'Party Of Five.' I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.

Nick Woodman

Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow.

Joe Muscato

There was no real decline in popularity for the Flying Turns. In fact, they were some of the most popular rides at any amusement park. Unfortunately, most of the places that had them are now closed or had them taken out.

Patch Adams

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

Larry Ellison

Arcade Planet is leveraging its expertise in the coin-operated amusement and video game industry to offer an unmatched online entertainment experience.

John Thompson

A nice well-equipped, state-of-the-art amusement centre of the type we have planned to develop will cost in excess of US$500,000 to get the minimum basic infrastructure to develop the park to its former glory... and we can't find the money, so we need help.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Sean Penn

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

Robert Lewis

The women like the shopping, the kids like the amusement opportunities and a lot of time the men like the golf.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Esperanza Spalding

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

Natasha Trethewey

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Gernot Erler

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

John Scott

A strong-legged kicker who combines power and accuracy, Dustin connected on 28-of-29 extra point attempts and 9-of-13 field goal attempts during the 2005 season.

Bible Bible

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Bible Bible

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Roy Hallums

Coalition forces rescued American Roy Hallums and an Iraqi citizen from captivity in an isolated farm house located 15 miles (25 kilometres) south of Baghdad,

Bob Barker

There's only one solution to the tragic, the embarrassing elephant problem going on at (the zoo), and it's to release those elephants from captivity and place them in a sanctuary.

Erik Anderson

What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.

Abraham Lincoln

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Evelyn Waugh

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Evelyn Waugh

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Hans Frank

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Ron DeHaven

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Gregg Thompson

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Flip Saunders

The positive was we defended down the stretch. That's what we're going to have to do when playoff time comes.

Rafael Ramirez

We are prepared to do that, and we stand ready to defend our rights,

Ed Sills

We stand with other Texans in defending Texas as a good place to live.

Jim Peterson

We stand ready to vigorously defend the NAFTA and we will take all steps open to us to ensure it is respected.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We want to prove to the Iraqi people and the world that we are in charge. We can manage our own security and can defend ourselves provided we are given the means and support to do that.

Gary Waters

We didn't defend today. But you can't put everything on your defense. You have to eventually hit shots.

Kelly Whitney

We didn't defend the 3-point line. We just didn't defend, period. Any time two guards go off for 66 points, you're not playing defense. That speaks for itself.

Mark E. Smith

We didn't defend him very well. He's a nice player, but we made him look like Michael Jordan out there.

J. Horton

We didn't defend again. We have to find a way to buckle down. This game it wasn't so much effort and hustle. It was more mental lapses.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Bob Hope

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Charlie Worsham

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

Sandy Miller

As we get older our minds become more fuddled. (Having so many plans) doesn't help.

Bill Ryan

It seems like we had a mindset of ?we're the underdog, let's go for broke.' We shot without apprehension.

Haruo Shimada

It's a simple question, and that question has penetrated the minds of voters.

Adam Baker

It's on everybody's minds right now. It's all anybody's thinking about.

Henry Newbolt

The work of the world must still be done, and minds are many though truth be one.

Dambisa Moyo

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Bill Wade

The staffing is not good. The parks are deteriorating.

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Brian McKnight

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Walt Dabney

The reality is parks are in serious trouble. Unless you own your own ranch, the parks are what most Texans have to go to.

Donella Meadows

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

Andy Kindler

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

Val Kilmer

I'm not just an actor born in L.A.. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Charles Spurgeon

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Charles Spurgeon

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

Charles Spurgeon

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.