Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

John Koech

Once we have ministers fully in charge of the affairs of the community in all the three countries, they would be in a better position to lobby for more funding.

Rose Mashigo

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Adam Ereli

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Thomas Tusser

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

Ghalib Ghalib

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months,

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

Lisa Graves

The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.

Jeffrey Mount

The state's water policy and all its plans for restoration of the delta are predicated on one flawed assumption -- that the delta is a fixed landscape and will look the same for the indefinite future. And it won't.

Alain Badiou

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Douglas Adams

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Albert Einstein

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Tim Fitzpatrick

My assumption is that ... they ... found out that PC World had named the 7170 to its top 10 list in 2005, so the choice was easy for them.

Rob Daviau

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

Kathleen Hall

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

Dore Gold

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

Mark Shieldcastle

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Joe Case

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Diane Siri

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

Alexandra Sanders

It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the evidence we had.

Curtis Withers

It was tough losing games we should have won, based on execution and rebounding. It was the small things that good teams should do.

Jim Mastro

These rules are there for schools like Nevada. We don't have the budget. We rent compact cars. We do everything as cost effective as possible. If a kid is making his decision based on whether I pull up in a Cadillac or a compact car, we don't want them here.

Edwin Starr

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Jill Soloway

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Stephanie Zimbalist

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

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.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

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.

Cam Gigandet

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Etel Adnan

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

Warren Ellis

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Viktor Yushchenko

Two months ago in this square, in squares and streets all over Ukraine, millions of people came,

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Mark Williams

The process is working. It's not working perfectly, but it is working better than it was on Jan. 1.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Lloyd Dobens

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

John Steinbeck

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

Mark Zuckerberg

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

Margaret J. Wheatley

All social change begins with a conversation.

Crystal Moore

I used to get in a lot of trouble and stuff, and I used to be into anything.

Brian Goorjian

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

Frank Dagostino

That's why we're not in the trouble of some of the other condos in the area.

Drayton McLane

You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).

Brandon Sanderson

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Charles Barkley

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

George Erdahl

We had to keep it under 50. If they got it going, we were going to be in trouble.