Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

George Orwell

This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history,

Hanan Ashrawi

It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.

Susan Cole

For many kids, the only thing they know about money is how to spend it. By making classroom presentations on budgeting, savings and the value of compound interest, bank employees are attempting to turn the tide and create a generation of savers.

Rob Gould

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

S. Hughes

We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for the Lord,

Walter Baumy

We're attempting to contract for materials, such as rock, super sand bags, cranes, and also for modes of transportation like barges and helicopters, to close the gap and stop the flow of water.

Nicholas Lemann

This year's winners showed extraordinary initiative and creativity while attempting to tell stories of how wars and internal conflicts impact the lives of everyday people. Journalism as a public service was the Kurt Schork tradition, and this year's winners exemplify his legacy.

Alec Baldwin

Down with Dukes of Hazzard!

Julia Roberts

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Billy Donovan

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

Prince Philip

You managed not to get eaten then?

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Paul Kern

We found that the pictures you have seen, as revolting as they are, were not the result of any doctrine, training or policy failures, but violations of the law and misconduct,

Chairon Isenia

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

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

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.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

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.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Dave Bautista

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Rupert Murdoch

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Robert Browning

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Deana Carter

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Sonya Hartnett

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Tom Robbins

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Rajiv Saxena

People who aren't even celebrities are celebrities because of page 3.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Jeff Daniels

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

George Steiner

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Irving Penn

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Kerry Washington

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jascha Heifetz

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

Arundhati Roy

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Johnny Damon

It's going to be a very watched weekend.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,