Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Benjamin Franklin

Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Sam Page

The time of death was less than a year, probably early this summer,

Dave Odom

What that really did was open the door for us to go to the smaller lineup, which was death for (S.C. State).

John Urquhart

What is unnerving are the leaps in infant deaths following the leap in radioactive fallout.

Adam Mansbach

The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

Mark Shields

Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

Linda Lewis

Due to the shear number of students, we need the position to be able to provide a quality program for our students,

Ed Hatch

Due to them, the Warner Bros. studio has been one of the most consistent, steady and stable studios of in the last decade.

Hamish Dodds

Due to developments here it seems a natural move.

John Still

I think our somewhat up and down form is due to the fact that several of our players need a rest. Because of our paper-thin squad and because finance restricts us from making loan signings, I have to go with what I've got, but at the tail-end of the season, I think that's costing us.

Steven Wood

While a portion of this strength is due to unseasonably mild winter weather, it is obvious that higher interest rates are, so far, having little dampening impact on construction.

Fred Thompson

which in the past have not been given due deference.

Laurie Carr

We even had a junior varsity sweeper protecting the net because we were out two players due to illness. The freshmen and sophomores in the game did a nice job.

John Russell

Were a lot of those guys ready? No. We had to force feed them due to circumstances with payroll, ... They went through growing pains, but a year or two later, things started to jell for them.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Hillary Clinton

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Jennifer Connelly

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Larry Richmond

I'd say it's a unique car. I've done a lot of research and don't really know much about them, but I think it's an interesting car.

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Dwight L. Moody

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

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

Steve Bruce

You could understand Emile's frustration. That's why he reacted the way he did.