Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Larry Hagman

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

Napoleon Hill

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Omar Epps

I've never taken myself too seriously.

Olympia Snowe

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

Olafur Eliasson

I want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.

Norman Vincent Peale

In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.

Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Susan Sontag

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Roger Rosenblatt

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Thomas Merton

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

Thomas Merton

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

Thomas Merton

We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

Thomas Merton

The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.

Thomas Carlyle

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.