Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Keating

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

Jim Post

We've learned to say 'No' to bishops here in Boston.

Tom Olson

We're very, very happy that the bishop and the diocese gave us the chance to do this.

Tony Wood

I'm humbled, I'm excited about the opportunity to coach at a school with such a tradition as Bishop Feehan.

Karen Friel

We get to play Bishop Gorman. But that's all right. I'll take that.

Todd Dodge

I think Chase could be all-conference material in any conference he goes to. I think he's in the line of Michael Bishop from Kansas State, and I think he's in the line of Brad Smith. He's got those kind of abilities. He was one point away from taking his team to a state championship in his first year starting. That's what Missouri saw in him; that's why they wanted him.

Dan Hawkins

We can watch every team play one game. (But) obviously, I can go to all my kid's games. I can go to as many as I want. That's not only the Bishop Kelly kids but whoever they play,

David Gibson

I don't think it necessarily calls for a technical fix, but it's important for what it says about the credibility of the bishops and the confidence Catholics have in their hierarchy.

Sydney Smith

Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot

Frank Keating

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

Jim Post

We've learned to say 'No' to bishops here in Boston.

David Gibson

I don't think it necessarily calls for a technical fix, but it's important for what it says about the credibility of the bishops and the confidence Catholics have in their hierarchy.

Alberto Melloni

He has to decide whether to hold a synod different from the past, in which bishops have the possibility not only of being listened to but of making decisions.

Roger Mahony

We bishops got ourselves and the church into this problem, so I can understand that, and I have no problem with that whatsoever. None.

Richard G. Scott

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

Brigham Young

Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

Eugene Kennedy

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

Eugene Kennedy

Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Bernadette Devlin

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

Bill Vaughan

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bertrand Russell

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Sean Brady

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Ryan Coogler

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.

Ryan Coogler

I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school.

Megan Fox

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

Alice McDermott

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

Chris Smith

Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carl Sagan

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Bethenny Frankel

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

Raquel Welch

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.

William Shakespeare

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Mark Sue

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Sunil Mittal

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Douglas Alexander

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Bradley Cooper

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Kurt Cobain

I have very bad posture.

Tom Stoppard

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.