Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong, and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain.

Bhagavad Gita

Seek refuge in Him alone with all your heart, O Arjuna. By His grace you shall attain supreme peace and the eternal abode.

Robin Cook

Saddam alone is to blame for his people's suffering. It is a myth that UN policy prevents the delivery of food and medicines. To export most goods to Iraq - including food, medicines, agricultural and educational equipment, and water and sanitation goods - it is simply necessary to notify the UN.

D. H. Lawrence

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

Mark Danielewski

Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

Rohan Bopanna

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

Dave Roberts

I've never seen this in baseball, let alone in the NL West.

Richard Goldman

These six winners are among the most important people you have not heard of before. All of them have fought, often alone and at great personal risk, to protect the environment in their home countries.

Harold Goldstein

The shocking thing about these findings is that the numbers are still getting worse. One of the things the study really shows is that information and education alone aren't going to be enough to solve the crisis.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Bob Wright

As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Mark Watson

The board structure among banks is still pretty poor. We're critical of boards that get too big and directors tell us that smaller boards are more effective.

John Ridley

Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.

Mark Savoia

Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Laurel Scherer

As hostile as they've been it would not be a good working environment.

Li Keqiang

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

Dr. Paulos

The brace didn't function well in this environment and should have done better than it did, frankly.

Kevin Lee

a very clean, safe, loving environment to be in.

Peter Charlton

As long as there are no major shocks and the interest rate environment remains the same, I expect it to go on into the first half of 2006 at the very least.

David Minsker

The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school will have.

Ryan Lewis

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Rex Tillerson

This is an industry that lives in cycles. The price environment we're in today is not sustainable.

Chad Calabria

The University of Iowa was the talk of the town. There were no pro sports. It was a nice environment and seemed like the right place for me.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Mitchell Joachim

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

Mark V. Hurd

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Edward Grey

The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

David Wells

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

Andy Palmer

Defensively, we did a great job. I'm proud of our kids.

Krissy Kukar

Defensively they did a great job. To hold a team to 26 points in the playoffs is pretty impressive.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Billy Connolly

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.

Scott Owens

When I heard this morning, I said 'What?

Ian Hunter

When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono)

Chris Jones

We have heard some rumblings. We're watching, and we're trying to interject ourselves into the discussions whenever we can.

Bruce McGill

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Mary Scott

Ten percent of our homes are now rentals. It's a big problem.

Flip Saunders

I've been impressed with him since Day One. At times, when I don't play him, I always go home at night, sit and watch the film and try to find ways why I didn't play him.

Judah Friedlander

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Brad Goreski

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

Jalal Talabani

I understand that Italians want their troops in Iraq to come home as soon as possible,

Sarah Waters

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

Dan Gallagher

These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them until we take action,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Christian Louboutin

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

Laura Baranek

People say 'Hi' to me I don't even know. They say 'Good game' and 'I saw you' and 'Great job.

Vinnie Jones

People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't.

Daunte Culpepper

People say what they want to say and people are going to make their own opinions.

Lucious Jordan

People say we're going to be the underdogs. We're just going to go in there and play hard. We've been underdogs every year before this, so we're going to go out there and play our game.

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.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Dave Allison

That's huge. We didn't sit back and protect the lead, we went after it in the third period.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Evangelos Venizelos

Protect those who protect you.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lance Armstrong

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Jennifer Morrison

I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

James A. Michener

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.