Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Jared Diamond

Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that persisted on the Australian mainland. For example, bone tools and the practice of fishing were both present in Tasmania at the time that the land bridge was severed, and both disappeared from Tasmania by around 1500 B.C.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Tommy Caldwell

I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Andee Whitaker

I know that I will work hard and I will give it my all. I just hope to be a part of a good team. We will win some and of course we will lose some, but I hope we will have the dedication and drive.

Paul McGinley

I knew it was four days, there was no cut this week, and I knew the way the course was playing, the scores would come back a little bit. Anything around par was a good score.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm excited to be here. It's great to be back as a defending champion. I think the golf course is in as good shape as I've ever seen it. I think that makes it even more special. I think I'm as ready as I can be.

John Daly

I love this Open, I love Scotland and this is one of my favorite courses in the world,

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Mark Hensby

The greens were so firm Monday and Tuesday that I was dreading it, ... The fairways were a lot firmer then, so you hit shorter shots in. I hit 6-iron into 17 today. In the practice round, I hit a gap wedge. That's a big difference. The greens were softer, but the course played so much longer. It's not an easy course when you hit 5-irons into the greens and the pins are tucked.

Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.

Danny Roberts

You could, in theory, get a hole-in-one off two banks. It's not terribly complex. I was less worried about the course than the scenery.

Glenn Tilton

It would not be the end of United if we were to do so, ... We would be flying the next morning.

Joe Crede

We were flying last night and I didn't get to see much of it.

Gordon Cooper

We'll miss you, Al, but we'll be there before long, so we can try some of that flying ourselves,

Eoin Colfer

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Paul Taylor

I found them in the basement, ... They're sort of freeze-dried. So I thought, well, maybe I'll frame that.

Albert Lin

I found that to be a little scary, a little weird, a little 'What was this guy thinking?' ... He seemed like the kind of person who would go around preaching all of this stuff that would probably frighten people. And in a fraternity, that's the last thing you want to happen.

Meggie Ford

I found that one of the greatest educations you can get comes by working with people, ... You learn a lot about people simply by talking to them. Besides, I like working with my hands and being creative.

Michael Cimino

I found that often, after a glass of wine, people at a party start looking for something else to drink,

Augustus Caesar

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Humberto Moreira

The 65 trapped people remain inside the mine.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Olusegun Obasanjo

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

Mark Calcavecchia

But only because I had to go inside and register,

Orson Card

When magic comes back into the world, ... here's where it comes from, leaking from this drainpipe.

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

Ray Bradbury

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

Herbie Hancock

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Tad Williams

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

Ned Vizzini

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.