Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheila Lee

Just as he lived on his own terms, advocating for the rights of human beings, the rights of those who were forgotten or ignored, from victims of rape in Africa, to the homeless on streets worldwide, he chose to move into a more abundant life, not from a hospital bed, but from his home in Vatican City. Today I, along with so many Americans, continue to pray for Pope John Paul II.

Ray Arvidson

It all pretty much says Mars was a place, particularly early in time, where liquid water was abundant at or close to the surface.

Stan Gregory

In Mack Creek, there were tons of fry in the stream the year after the 1996 flood. They were four times as abundant as anything we'd ever seen before.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Kurt Barnard

We believe the earnings will be quite good, and that the result will give a boost to retail stocks. Everything has been favorable for retailers in terms of abundant consumer spending.

Morris Gleitzman

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

Mary Roach

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Tommy Caldwell

I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Jeffrey Lacker

On the one hand we've got some good core numbers in the last few months, but on the other hand, we're facing the prospect now of the possibility of the energy price surge passing into core prices, and we don't want to see that.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Claiborne Mason

I come from the branding business, and these are the sort of the core principles of the business.

Robert Brusca

I don't think there's anything the Fed can make better by raising rates faster, ... They've gotten rates up a lot in the past year already. Inflation had accelerated because of oil but core inflation is still low and hardly anything to get excited about.

Brian Hill

I don't see significant changes. Perhaps the following year, when we're under the salary cap, it might be different. But I think our core group of players is here right now.

Barack Obama

I am very impressed with his intellect, ... He strikes me as a good and decent person but he is still following instructions, which is to say as little as possible on some core issues about how he would decide cases.

P. Herbert

I do like the manager. It's a fund for someone to devote a little money to, but not make it a core holding.

John Lasseter

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Mike Skelton

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Robert Morse

You're shut out. How would someone get in and help you?, ... It's all gated in. Once you get in deep here, I think it's too dangerous.

Rob Blake

Throughout the top four lines, I think we're very deep now.

David Bell

We are digging out from a deep pit,

Michael Franti

The more I see, the less I know.

Erin Gray

She was so huge for us. It is such a relief to have a deep squad. No matter who is there we know they can get the job done.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Nick Davis

There was no drilling involved because it was above- ground. Most of the guys would not even qualify for 250 straight days.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Simone Weil

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Steve Martin

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

Ron Paul

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Stuart Rothenberg

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

Rick Riordan

I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

Michael E. Mann

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Frank Beamer

I personally like it, ... I think our kids like it. I think it's the equivalent of Monday night football in the pros. You're the only game on or you're the most important game on TV.

John Gorman

We turned that down. We thought the evidence was that this was a felony.

Bill Belichick

I didn't think there was enough evidence to warrant the challenge.

Ahmed Nazif

I don't think that we have enough evidence to prove the second assumption, ... So for now we are taking things as they really look and looking at the people living there.

Mark Potok

I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.

Wendy Murphy

I don't think this is one of those sort of rage killings that happened on the spur of the moment. (And) there's a lot of evidence of premeditation in case, getting the weapon, the cover-up, the fact that he was returning the gun to the place he took it, from Rachel's stepfather.

Jack Boatwright

There are still places where you can see evidence of the 1906 earthquake. You just have to know where to look.

William Brennan

There is a lack of evidence in this case.

Jerry Jones

I looked at it as an opportunity to present the evidence to a jury of twelve people and prove my innocence.

Mark Vaile

The Cole Inquiry is part heard. There is more evidence to come before it.

Kris Kristofferson

The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as I've got something to talk about, I'll probably keep talking.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

Jay Gibbons

First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,

Rand Pecknold

We talked about it as a team - that a point in November is as big as a point in February. It just didn't register and that's something we figured out that we have to do better next year so we can move up in the rankings.

Daron Malakian

We haven't figured out how we are going to present that yet, but it's going to come on a separate thing. I think we might put it on a separate disc.

Tony Bethel

We were just out of sync. We couldn't figure out how to get back in sync.

Glenn Johnson

We had goals set before the season and to finish with 10 or 12 wins, we thought that was realistic. We never figured to be in the final game. No matter what happens it's been a successful season.

Sara Baker

I figured if his mother wasn't nervous it would be OK,

Bob Ward

Alisa is starting to feel more comfortable in the point guard role. She's doing a much better job of finding her scoring opportunities and finding teammates. The big thing was we settled down in the second half after rushing things too much in the first half.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

Maria Semple

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Terri Mitchell

We didn't let their runs shake us. It was 40 minutes of finding a way to win, and we did.

Chris Cooney

She seems to have a knack for finding loopholes for herself.

Tommy Ramos

She had a hard time finding her rhythm.

Lynn Frederick

She got it going tonight. The other girls did a nice job of finding her, and she knocked the shots down.

Jonathan Miller

Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors

Tracy Palmer

She played well down the stretch. We just weren't finding her and she was finding the ball.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Robert Sellar

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Kate Warne

Any little signal like this can lead people to sell first and to think about it later ... and it's partially a response to nervousness over whether the good times can continue,

Proverb Proverbs

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Randy Pausch

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Sean Maloney

Its always helpful to look at ourselves rather than our competitors,

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Christopher Paolini

Let's drop rocks on them!

Angelina Jolie

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

Conor Oberst

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

David Cook

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

Serj Tankian

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

Steven Adler

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

Steven Adler

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

Dick Morris

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Alex Kelly

It was hellish conditions, if you will, on top of the chimney.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Nelson Goodman

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Adam Carolla

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Jeff Raikes

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Jay Roach

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

Jeff Sessions

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.]Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.

Jeff Sessions

I had not been involved in any way in planning the event in Mobile. My staff maybe, had really been contacted, but I had never talked to Donald Trump about him coming to Mobile, and I decided - I had something else to do but it became so clear that it was going to be such a big event that I should be there. And he had already adopted my immigration views, in large part, and he was saying things I thought were valuable, about immigration.

Jeff Sessions

I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an intellectual basis for this, an economic basis for what he's saying, and that can lead him to victory.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Sam Houston

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

Tim Storey

We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water.