Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Debbie Smith

Reaching out to children in need and touching their lives in this special way is so important.

Peter Craig

Our thoughts and prayers are with her children and her family.

Mark Madsen

Our thoughts and prayers are with Fred Hoiberg and his family and his children, because there's not a finer human being around than Fred Hoiberg. But hey, we've got to make adjustments, and we've got some good players who will hopefully come in and fill the void.

Sharon Lewis

Our detectives are interviewing the parents of the two children we found, to see whether they can't throw any light on the subject ... At the moment we have no leads.

Joe Biden

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Jason O'Mara

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

KP Kushwaha

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Teresa Belew

People going, starting to drink at 12-o'clock with children and leaving after a long day in the sun out there, that's just a risky, risky combination.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Amanda Sturges

A nice option is to own a few closely connected condos where individual households can stay. Groups also usually need a gathering place of some sort, like a reception room or clubhouse that can be reserved for a function.

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Peter Firstbrook

This is proof of their knowledge that they need to offer more integrated applications, as anti-virus, anti-spam and the firewall need to work closely together,

Rena Golden

This election is being as closely watched outside the U.S. as it is inside because of the huge foreign policy issues at stake

Jim Brusda

That's what we're going to look at real closely when this storm moves out.

John York

Argent has been working very closely with them (the regulatory agencies) to satisfy their needs.

Wilson Washington

Ever so closely do we walk with our enemy... but in the heat of battle, how does one determine the opposition if we all fight for a common purpose...

Donnie Miller

An interesting thing is that we've seen families that have sent three or four different students here. That tells you what emphasis these families place on academics.

Mia Turner

At the moment, the emphasis is on the need for road engineers. If we can open the roads, that would solve everything.

John Cairns

People in my view have been putting too much emphasis on the slowdown of the economy,

Carolyn Peck

I think this was a very clarifying time for us as we've gone through right now. Now our focus and emphasis has to be maintaining that focus of what we want our M.O. to be.

Jamie Dixon

We don't put too much emphasis in scoring. I know it's going to be there at different times. Carl is making good decisions. He's playing good defense. He's rebounding. He's playing very well.

Joe Gibbs

It has been a big emphasis for us this week.

Mike Bellotti

It hasn't been a huge emphasis so far.

Steve Alford

If I know Bru, he'll come back tomorrow and have a big emphasis on the boards.

James Hansen

I put a little more emphasis (than the other commissioners did) on the lack of savings when it seemed obvious that we had way too much infrastructure,

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Alan Keyes

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

David Boswell

We have to be guarded to keep a right-to-work law from passing, ... That will be one of our top priorities.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Sonia Sood

I should think that after notice is issued and replies are heard and arguments put forth, the issue should take six months to a year to get resolved.

Katherine Brown

I seen shots out the window, and I heard someone say. And I called 911.

Vince Young

I've been hearing about that stadium, ... What's it like, man? I heard it's huge, noisy. I can't wait to get up there.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Joe Arbona

This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Donald Trump

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience. This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that concept we would be something else than what we are.

Dinesh D'Souza

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Anderson Cooper

You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

John Sales

I don?t think we give up two-goal leads very often.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Michel Hazanavicius

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Jamal Lewis

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Henry David Thoreau

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Jhene Aiko

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

George H. W. Bush

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

James Frey

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.