Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. J. Simpson

As a result, this potential source of funding will be delayed well beyond the six month period.

Ben Halliburton

Profitability in the first-quarter and beyond is going to continue to be strong and the broader economy is clearly in a recovery phase,

Amanda Peloso

People don't usually think of Girl Scouting beyond middle school. But there are still a lot of opportunities for the girls who choose to stay in it.

Sathya Baba

Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.

Malcolm Speed

Once the ICC executive board has received this report, we will be in a position to identify what further steps cricket can take to tackle this issue before it spreads beyond the incidents that have taken place in Australia.

Kate Ziegler

Coming into this meet, I didn't have high expectations. I was just coming in here to have a good time. I did everything I wanted to do, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. It was beyond what I expected.

Todd Davis

Any legislation that makes it through is going to be watered down. The federal government is also going to rein in any state that tries to do too much in this area, especially if they're reaching beyond their borders.

Richard Remus

An officer is going to sacrifice his life or family for political gain for somebody else? It's beyond my understanding of human nature I can't see it. This sounds like Cook County politics at its finest.

Scott Thumma

Anything that goes beyond just a large gathering, such as using small groups to create a congregational life with their members, that's a significant shift in the organization of a Catholic congregation.

Thomas Laird

Once the meat is through inspection, they can start cooking, and I suspect some of them will be cooking all night.

Jean Harlow

One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal.

Sharon Stone

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.

Jinny Fleischman

Cooking is a good unifier. It gives people the opportunity to work together.

Keith Downey

Twenty years ago I was cooking in Las Vegas.

Colleen Ryan

We cooked it for 15 hours and let it sit for 24 hours. It took about two days to make. I was in the lab for about two weeks.

Jose Andres Puerta

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Steve Albini

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

Steve Albini

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Joann Haley

Our drivers tried to report for work, but found the roadblock in place. All of Lee County was affected.

Judy Davis

Our daughter has learned her lesson. She learned it the first day she was in county jail. A long sentence is just not appropriate on first-time offenders.

John Murray

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Paul Hatch

Somerset County has the potential and the natural resources to be a real shining star in northern New England for recreational tourism.

Josh Liss

Once we receive the equipment, we have to have the staff trained on this and get our election judges trained. We'd also like to take it around the county and demonstrate it to the voters so that when they walk into the polling place for the first time it's not the first time they've seen the equipment.

Brenda Buster

Now, all the communities south of Indianapolis to Greene County have joined together in one voice stating our opposition to this plan. This represents the majority of people on this route who I think have been ignored up to this point.

Teri Pope

Sometimes one part of the county was getting snow. And other parts were not getting it.

John Karevoll

San Diego is the county that is kind of the furthest off into this uncharted statistical territory, so everybody's wondering what is going to happen locally. The big question there is will prices decline significantly or will they flatten out.

Teri Pope

The road will stay completely in Hall County where now it gets down into Gwinnett County.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Melanie Schweinhardt

Anything that will give the officer's wife peace. It would give our family peace so he doesn't torture himself.

Mike White

And the long-range toughness (for the Saints) is they know the next year is going to be different... the family insecurity... this one is going to be unbelievable in comparison.

Mark Fuhrman

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

Ann Douglas

The situation can be overwhelming. It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Ann Douglas

The situation can be overwhelming, ... It's important for the family to share the responsibility. It's not just one sibling's job.

Joe Schmidt

The single-family neighborhoods aren't functioning like they're single-family.

Alia Faraj

The students are doing what's right. The family is appreciative.

Tim Nardiello

The team trials and competitions are fierce. You've got the travel, which everyone thinks is wonderful but isn't. You don't see your friends, your family or your pets. You live out of a bag.

Kazunori Jinnai

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

Jere Adcock

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

Japan Times

Puffy Gains Real-Life Foothold on 'anime' -crazy U.S. Market

David Briggs

The S&P lost 50 points last week and today we gained back four. This is not great.

Cheryl Smith

The whole thing with the power of prayer in our minds is true. And a lot of what has happened, and the strength he has gained back and progress he's made, without sounding corny, I think a lot is attributed to prayers.

Sarah Bolton

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Josh Brown

This is the first year I haven't lost weight, and I've gained strength.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Ruth Rendell

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Kaley Cuoco

I've never been in an acting class in my life.

Orlando Bloom

I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

Magnus Scheving

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

Murray Bartlett

I've never been a big nightlife person. I have a pretty low-key life.

Robby Benson

I've always wanted to make teaching a part of my life.

Daniel Craig

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Layne Staley

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Keith Ellis

Another officer walked in when this was occurring.

Kofi Annan

Washington will not put an American officer on the ground.

Bill Chase

By the time the officer got here, they thought it was this monster.

Tommy Davis

We have over 27 students accounts, approximately 30, that said no officer was struck,

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Sherry Llewellyn

We know that no officer was there at the time of the collision.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Rich Galen

What is so frustrating is that this is a problem of their own making. I have no idea why they didn't see the politics of this.

Baha'u'llah

Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.

Ayn Rand

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

Ayn Rand

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Ayn Rand

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Ayn Rand

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Ayn Rand

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

Ayn Rand

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Danny Hall

You spot somebody 10 runs, it's pretty tough to win.

Manti Te'o

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

Bob Bernstein

We wanted to put up enough to get somebody talking. What's a bun worth? It's kind of a strange question.

Mark McKinney

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Brad Clark

You have to be able to take somebody down to win these days. You have to be tough on your feet.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Jill Scott

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Mark Hammond

It sounds like he wants to do what I've already done.

Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Kweisi Mfume

It sounds like we could have a train wreck.

Mark Noble

That sounds like a lot of line, but for specter-fiber, 35-pound test is about like monofilament, 10-pound test.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.