Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Koch

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Carlo LoParo

We are hopeful that the judge will see the merits of our argument.

Baltasar Gracian

Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Randi Osberg

County commission refused to explore the possibility of a four-way stop at Knapp and Second with the argument that any time you change traffic flow - whether it be a stop or a turn, a light or speed - that it increased danger.

Jay Rosen

Argument is what causes them to seek out more information.

Roger Bacon

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Oscar Wilde

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Shlomo Avineri

Election time means time out. There is a strong argument for refraining from doing dramatic things right now.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Roberta Zelleke

As parents, we're not ready for this. We don't see it coming. We can't stop it, but we can change how we react to it.

Courteney Cox

That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.

Laurence Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.

John Edgar Wideman

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Doug Adkins

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Kim Rupert

Productivity still remains really solid, and one of the hallmarks of this whole expansion. If we can hang on to that I think the perception of where we're going in the market could change dramatically.

Lamar Alexander

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Stephen Jones

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

Gregg Robinson

This is a tremendous project for Orangeburg County and the state of South Carolina. This is part of strategic initiative our County Council and Development Commission have been working on for years.

Mark Ternent

This is something the Game Commission has been doing for nearly 30 years. It's the cornerstone of our program, really.

George Peteros

This is the fire commission taking the lead and the town government taking a supporting role.

Horacio Gutierrez

The unsupervised and undocumented meetings between the trustee and Microsoft's adversaries encouraged by the commission violated the commission's own procedural safeguards as well as general principles of due process.

Tyson Slocum

You wouldn't want that person on the commission at all.

Paul Tagliabue

We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,

Hosni Mubarak

As I had promised for the presidential election, the upcoming legislative polls will also be free and fair and will take place under the supervision of the electoral commission and the judges,

Joann Haley

Our drivers tried to report for work, but found the roadblock in place. All of Lee County was affected.

Judy Davis

Our daughter has learned her lesson. She learned it the first day she was in county jail. A long sentence is just not appropriate on first-time offenders.

John Murray

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Paul Hatch

Somerset County has the potential and the natural resources to be a real shining star in northern New England for recreational tourism.

Josh Liss

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Brenda Buster

Now, all the communities south of Indianapolis to Greene County have joined together in one voice stating our opposition to this plan. This represents the majority of people on this route who I think have been ignored up to this point.

Teri Pope

Sometimes one part of the county was getting snow. And other parts were not getting it.

John Karevoll

San Diego is the county that is kind of the furthest off into this uncharted statistical territory, so everybody's wondering what is going to happen locally. The big question there is will prices decline significantly or will they flatten out.

Teri Pope

The road will stay completely in Hall County where now it gets down into Gwinnett County.

Deborah Moggach

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Sherilyn Fenn

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

Robert Brown

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Julie Kavner

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

Janet Reno

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Lonnie Soloff

We do that to explore his ranges of motion.

Linda Hamilton

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Jane Goodall

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

Jamie Dimon

If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Alan Garner

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Jeff Cogen

As revenues have increased, Mr. Hicks has increased the payroll accordingly.

Elaine Chao

This has been an across-the-board gain, ... All that (data) bodes for increased hiring.

Mike Lomas

There will be an increased interest from visitors who want to know how to get in this club.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Dr. Trucco

This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Auguste Rodin

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

Jan Morris

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

Cam Newton

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

Alan Davies

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

bell hooks

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Craig Kilborn

It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.'

Richard G. Scott

Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Haile Gebrselassie

You lose the speed before the stamina.

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach,

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Rajon Rondo

It was a completely different style of play. I had to speed up and be more vocal to keep up with the other players.

Jim Lanzone

It's like we have put everything we have on speed dial.

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Tara Kelly

There's no secrets. We have to stop them. We can't let them get on a streak.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Brian Jones

We were never going to stop even if they told us to.

Ray Parlour

We have to try to stop the supply to Thierry Henry, get about them and have a go ourselves.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Goldie Hawn

The movie actually has a little more back story, more consequence, and I think it's more real actually for this time period.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Chris Mills

I've never had a better time doing anything -- not just music, but anything,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Aaron Edwards

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.