Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Yehuda Berg

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

Doc Hastings

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

Mark Cuban

The policies and actions of Senator Hatch are very concerning to me from what I read and from my personal interactions with him,

Pat Camden

The police officer was protecting himself and the customers in the shop, ... His actions could very well have saved lives today.

Bradley Byrne

I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.

Bruce Jackson

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Victoria Osteen

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Chuck Hagel

The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.

Hayao Miyazaki

The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Vince Gilligan

If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

Noah Feldman

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.

Rebecca H. Davis

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

David Gallitto

We have the eyes of the government on us and they are looking closely at what we do.

Douglas Altabef

We were going to have a knee-jerk negative reaction to the Fed's decision no matter what, with so many different opinions on what should be done, but I think today, it may be that people are looking more closely at the statement and see it as the Fed saying things are slowly going in the right direction.

Daniel Petrocelli

We have all been working closely together to present a single defense, so if Mr. Causey is not with us we will have to substantially regroup.

Duncan Edwards

We have been watching the digital publishing sector very closely over the last few years and have now decided it is time to ramp up our activity.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Michael Panzner

We've got quadruple witching, which always has the potential to have an impact on prices.

Mark McKinnon

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Nicholas Graham

We haven't seen anything unusual or alarming. There hasn't been any impact on our members or our service.

Dave Wannstedt

I think Kevin Collier will have an opportunity to make an impact early.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Simon Flannery

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

Thom McDaniels

I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Michael Greco

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

John Tyler Bonner

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Bertrand Russell

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Tom Ridge

We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance,

William Shakespeare

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

Remembrance of things past.

Avery Johnson

We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning.

Alex Jones

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Andy Pettitte

We haven't spent time together like we did in New York.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Patti Smith

We are testing things all the time on the site.

David Wright

It's not as though they can say we've done a lot of testing without the beacon.

Carl Crawford

We would do start-up testing in 2014 or 2015.

Mark Williams

There will be a long and testing time for him, but we'll wait and see how he comes through,

Emile-Auguste Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Brian Hall

Third-party testing is a validation of the process,

Larry Schnall

It's a state-of-the-art vehicle that we're testing right now.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Abraham Lincoln

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

John Searle

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.