Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Standish Knowles

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

Bee Wilson

The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.

Bryan Samuels

The archdiocesan review board advised the archdiocese to remove Father McCormack from his parish, and the archdiocese refused to follow the advice.

Sam Lee

We're very, very disappointed with his decision today. I think he is being advised that this is a political hot potato that he needs to get rid of, and I think it's bad advice.

Hernan Daguerre

With the economy starting to show signs of recovery, employees would be strongly advised to fully explore their career options.

Chris Nolan

We continue to lobby for a synthetic training track and although the advised installation has been put back two years (to 2008-09) we will continue to emphasise the urgency of this facility to Racing Victoria,

Rick Greenspan

We had conversations with people that advised us wisely. Is it a red flag? Absolutely, but it wasn't a coach who had a chronic history during his career.

Joseph Tiberi

We haven't been advised of any new cost-cutting programs by United Airlines.

John Williams

We dress up a room as best we can. The clients are advised to tidy up, but we know what to look out for. Furniture moved back creates a feeling of space, newspapers are removed, children's toys tidied away and washing up put away.

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

David Gergen

That would give you protection against Democratic attacks and restore bipartisan spirit.

Dan Feagler

That was the first time they had ever beaten us. I think we had 12 or 13 in a row against them. We tried to switch defenses, and she got a three-pointer and put the game into overtime.

Pat Riley

That was the first time I ever called an open isolation against a 2-3 zone. He's a remarkable player and I'm glad to have him on my team.

Jason Hanson

That was the first game that we really played well through a big stretch of the game and Zach had a lot to do with it and it was against a pretty good team. The Saint Joseph-Ogden game was the same thing. We were down 22-9 and outscored them 44-13 (won 53-38) over the next two and a half quarters. For us to play that way was really something special to see. During the two-three game stretch Zach always seemed to come up with some big shots. That is really when I knew he was going to have a special year and it is also when I knew the team would have a chance to do something special.

Terry Youngbauer

That was the biggest shot of the game. That was a big momentum stopper there. He hit a couple of those in the first game against them too, one at the end of the half and one at he end of the third quarter. He took a couple of long ones that I questioned him about last game. Maybe he knows more than I know. He does a lot of things for us.

Bob Punter

That was the best defensive effort we've had against us that I can think of. We didn't quite have our way in the low post as we have all year. We didn't get a lot of good looks, and when we got good looks, we didn't make them. Shots that we made all year, we missed.

Young Jeezy

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Yolanda Adams

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yanis Varoufakis

My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Tina Turner

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Imelda May

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Gin Wigmore

I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious.

Young Jeezy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Sidney Jones

The police and prosecution really want to see these charges stick,

Don Aaron

The at-fault driver has not been determined, so charges have not been filed yet.

Boucounta Diallo

My client wants to be heard as soon as possible on the charges in question. He wants to use his right to speak. It is not comfortable to defend someone who has done nothing wrong.

Jeff Wuite

Most of the charges are for things like possession of stolen property, theft over and under $5,000, unlawful use of credit cards, and possession of counterfeit money.

Robert Stewart

Most of it was old and minor offenses, larceny and drug charges from the '70s and '80s,

Sanford Bernstein

messy, given the significant charges IBM is expected to take.

Bud Selig

I think this was much more specific. The specificity of these charges said it was time to have an investigation.

Richard Spoor

I won't lay charges because I was not injured. The man's punch is as weak as his explanation for ripping off this rural community. It is enough that my assailant disgraced himself and his company in front of government representatives and the community.

Nathan Gonzales

I think right now it is a serious race and it's a competitive race, but it is somewhat on hold because I think a majority of people are waiting to see how things are playing out in the courts, how the charges are settled.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Charles Ramsey

We could light this town up if we had to, but we don't intend to do that,

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

William Cohen

We intend to take down that terror network.

Hilly Kristal

We intend to stay. This is not a eulogy. There's no reason why we shouldn't come to an understanding.

Bruce Hamilton

We intend to rebuild, if it's possible, but until everything comes together, we just have to wait. I think it will be possible.

Stephen Ferguson

We intend to put this to rest today.

Sergei Lavrov

We intend to proceed without any sudden moves.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Dave Anderson

We aren't going to be running this channel, the public is going to be running it. We intend to manage it.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.