Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pelosi

I would not want any president - Democrat or Republican - to have the expanded power the administration is claiming in this case.

William Wilkinson

He continues to issue press releases claiming that the court has already ruled that Mr. Noe committed a fraud. That's false.

Mikhail Kamynin

We are far from claiming a monopolist role in the post-Soviet space. At the same time, we feel sure that enforcing models of development from outside won't lead to any good. We have seen examples of that in the post-Soviet space, in the Middle East and in Africa.

Michael Moschen

If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.

Scott Cameron

They were claiming they had a significant insurance settlement coming, I think the number 2.5 million dollars was batted around.

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Richard Clarke

People downplay the importance of cyber-security, claiming that no one will ever die in a cyber-attack, but they're wrong, ... This is a serious threat.

John Key

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Mary Gordon

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.

Richard Cox

They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,w hich shows that the situation is out of control.

Chester Moore

It's a serious pursuit and a fascination, ... I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of things, but this is the biggest, hugest prize.

Linda Hall

This is the largest gift in our history and will enable us to help dozens of homeless families for years to come.

Mike Byrne

The sad thing is that his legacy is with us still today in dozens of investment schemes that sound too good to be true - and are.

Rob Sheffield

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

Srikumar Rao

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Ken Starr

That is false and you know it to be false,

David Jenkins

Taking a pill may give people the false impression that they have nothing further to do to protect their health and prevent them from making serious lifestyle changes.

George Hoffer

You don't want to give people false signals with price.

Mike Grier

It's a little troubling. I think when you start scoring five or six goals a night, you get lulled into a false sense of belief. As a team, we let things slide. Maybe this stretch will help us get our heads screwed back on.

Sonny Smith

They recognize a false smile and a false greeting. Be gentle and be yourself.

John Marshall

They have made a habit of knowingly making false statements ? lying ? and today they pass it off as spin like this is some sort of game. It's not. This isn't called spin, it's called lying to the public. And it's illegal.

Scott Sullivan

As CFO at WorldCom I participated with other members of WorldCom to conspire to paint a false and misleading picture of WorldCom's financial results,

Marcus Antonius

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Marty Casey

So those are the tools that I've learned, and getting this falsetto voice that I never knew I had. There have been a few honest musical breakthrough moments that kicked me up a notch.

Gene Luen Yang

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Jack Brennan

We're not offering any (comment) on it. We're just gathering information tonight. I don't know whether we'll have anything (today) or not.

William Vickrey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Rowan D. Williams

If you think of intersecting circles, holy wisdom is that point at which the realities meet, overlap, intersect, interpenetrate.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Karl Marlantes

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Don Lucia

First of all, I would like to congratulate Holy Cross. I thought they played terrific.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

Tim Oliver

He hugged me and said, 'I don't have any money to give you,' ... I said, 'Don't worry about that. Jesus loves you, and I love you.'

Richard Dawkins

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Richard Dawkins

In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

Richard Dawkins

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

Richard Baxter

If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

Willie Aames

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

William S. Burroughs

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

William Lyon Phelps

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

Will Ferrell

I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

William Jennings Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Willa Cather

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

Wangari Maathai

Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts.

W. S. Gilbert

Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).