Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Watkins

I think the president has it correct. We are addicted to foreign energy sources, almost to the point where we are captives. Our nation grapples with going 8,000 miles away to try to protect our energy sources.

George Abbott

I think it's the right model. That has to be part of the continuum of services. The aim is not to keep people addicted to their addictions in the long term. It's trying to get them into a social setting where we have an opportunity to . . . address their addictions issues.

Francis Clines

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore.

Dyan Cannon

I was addicted to marijuana. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back.

Rick McCallum

He loves his wife so much that he thinks he is doing something to protect and save her, ... But what he's really doing is he's getting addicted to power. The more power he gets the more he wants and then once you do that, there's nothing left because you're willing to sacrifice everything. At the end of the day, Anakin sacrifices his family. He does fulfill his destiny after another 25 years and lets his son live and basically dies redeeming himself. But he goes through a lot of s--- and causes a lot of pain to people for a long time.

David Wilkerson

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Mary Lambert

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

Jonathan Bishop

I personally don't see the Internet as what the people are being addicted to. I see it as the social experiences that are offered by the Internet that people are addicted to.

Kim Beason

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

Jack Horner

Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

Craig Anderson

Kids are basically little learning machines. Whatever the content is in front of them, they're going to pick it up.

Barney Frank

I would say this: What I'm basically saying here is the federal government cannot and should not be the nanny of the states in everything here.

Dan Nobbs

I talked to the umpire after the game and he said he thinks its nerves. We can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just they don't know how to get ready yet. Basically it's coming from long days in school, and coming out and not really knowing what to expect.

Flip Saunders

I talked to the guys at halftime and basically said that we were not as competitive. I thought that the second half they played exceptionally well. In these type of games, it takes a lot of time to get used to playing with guys. Every guy did something in a very positive way.

Anne White

It (Center Stage) clearly was not making money. It was basically hand-to-mouth.

E. P. Thompson

It breaks my heart to realize that the culture has basically transformed the church rather than the church confronting the culture and trying to transform it.

Carla Peterson

It bodes well for us. We basically had our sectional meet in a practice run and we get to do it all over again.

Leonard Little

It basically was a teaching session this year. It wasn't a thing where they came out and beat us up every day. We basically learned the position, and learned what we needed to do on every given play.

J. Horton

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

Juan Pierre

This was only the first game, but this game it was evident that once you get guys on base, it causes havoc. It's not just me, it's anybody. That's my intent to start off the game, not necessarily with a triple, but to have a good at-bat and let the offense take it from there.

Clark Williams

Have we created a new PCB problem for ourselves? ... We have dug this hole for ourselves. It's like DDT; we find out it harms birds, and we pull it off the market. With PCBs, we find it causes health problems, and we pull it off the market. We have to learn the lesson.

Sathya Baba

God plays pranks and directs,He causes tears and quenches tears,He cures madness and inflicts madness.

Walter Cunningham

I think it's important, because we have so many children, who are, more or less like latch-key children, or children who are on their own. They need a plan. This gives them a plan, rather than keeping all this to themselves, which festers and causes more problems internally. Now they know who to go to for help.

Ben Jonson

Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art's hid causes are not found, / All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Azzam Tamimi

What may be seen as a glorification of terrorism by one person might be seen as an explanation of the causes of terrorism by another person.

John Buford

The people give and sell the men something to eat, but I can't stand that way of subsisting; it causes dreadful straggling.

Courtney Love

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

Craig Biggio

I think it was more their destiny than ours.

William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

Triple H

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

Woodrow Wilson

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

William Shatner

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

William McKinley

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

William James

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

William James

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

Titus Maccius Plautus

He whom the gods favor dies in youth.

William Nicholson

If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong

Virginia Woolf

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

Samuel Beckett

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett

The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter.

Roberto Benigni

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Willem de Kooning

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

William Wallace

It's better to die than to never really have lived.

Zygmunt Bauman

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

Atharva Veda

God protects the virtuous ones and fulfill their wishes. He guides us, just like a guardian and prevents us from going astray.

Mark Konlock

If you just see your job as a job or a way to pay the bills, then it doesn't seem like it's fulfilling you. Life should be more than that, I think.

Miguel Batista

I'm trying to fulfill the needs of the team. Actually, I like winning and I like to pitch whenever I can be helpful.

Jason Campbell

If you do nothing else but wear (these styles), you've already fulfilled one of the season's key style quotas.

Capt. Strow

I really think he was fulfilling his dream. And he was a serial killer in the making.

Ben Roethlisberger

I promised Jerome last year that I would get him here. I'm just glad that I could fulfill the promises I made to him.

Ben Roethlisberger

I'm just glad I could fulfill the promise I made to him.

Paul Martin

the importance of fulfilling the terms of NAFTA.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

You know, my real worry is that no government, no matter who is in charge, will be able to fulfill the expectations of the people.

Jim Rosborough

I wouldn't put anything past him. Whatever he says typically gets done. He's just never, ever let any of his handicaps hold him back at all.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Floyd Reese

I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,

Bill Cowher

Joey is the kind of guy who gets us going. We have some unique personalities, and Joey is unique in his own sense.

Mark Hastings

Josh is a very physical kid. He runs really well and has a great nose for the ball. When he gets a hold of you, he's going to tackle you.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Gareth Thomas

I think it raises the possibility of another merger if this one gets through.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Sam Mendes

It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live up to being Paul Newman.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Dennis Luquet

He could have more strikeouts, but he just wants to get you out as quickly as he can. He just quietly goes about his business.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

Brian Elliott

I think we have a lot left to give.

Alana Towns

I think we will improve, especially toward the end of the season, and pick up right where we left off.

Lee Ielpi

I think we seem to be on the same train. I think we left the station. Let's make it to the next stop.

Larry Hackett

He lets people (in the prison) know what he is called.

Dave Duncan

He lets me do my thing. If there's something he sees that he wants done, then he lets me know that he wants it done and I try and get it done. I'm open-minded to what he has to say.

Larry Ellison

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

Bobby Abreu

He makes the players feel relaxed and lets them play the game. He doesn't put pressure on the players. Sometimes, if you make a mistake, a manager will push you. He just talks to you about it like nothing happened.

Brian Owens

Pillow Girl. It's a statement on sexuality and femininity, the oppression of women. It lets you read so many things into it.

Ryan Wilson

It helps. It lets me know I'm never out of a match, no matter what happens.

Don Metz

This is new territory. Technology lets it happen.

Jeff Holt

That lets us punt out of a lot of different situations.

James Perkins

It lets me know what my life should be like. It's reassurance that there are other people who feel the same way I do.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Lord Byron

He who loves not his country, can love nothing

Christopher McGrath

He'll never be the same as he used to be. He's never going to be able to do the things that he loves again.

Gary Hammond

He loves people, ... and especially people in need.

David Lyons

He loves going down the super slide over and over.

Robert Jones

He loves basketball. He plays all the time.

Leroy Franklin

Robert not only loves to play baseball, he loves to teach young players. He's perfect to manage youngsters.

Adrienne Barbeau

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Paul

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

Alfred Balauro

The pain stopped after the surgery. There's a little numbness in my fingers, but that's going away.

Anders Paerson

The pain is too much each day, so they have to go and look at what it is.

Indian Proverb

The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Ben Williams

Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Ken Ford

There are no reports of widespread power outages, no problems with heating and that sort of thing. So just stay off the roads and everything should be fine.

George Ward

When they say all power boaters are rude, I just don't think that's true.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Gary Thompson

Whatever has to be done to protect the citizens. If it's going to save lives, I know that's really important.

Darian Townes

We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.

Russell Schweiss

Under Gov. Bush, Florida's wetlands and waterways are receiving better protection than ever before.

John Simmons

He was just protecting us. That showed us that he'll do what it takes to protect us.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Richelle Mead

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

Leslie Jamison

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

John Waters

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

Francine Rivers

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Etty Hillesum

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Granth Sahib

I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

Richard Baxter

For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.

Rebecca West

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Rose Macaulay

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.

Rick Riordan

True success requires sacrifice.

Richard DeVos

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

William Robertson Smith

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

William S. Burroughs

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Paul Cleave

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.

Claude Julien

Jose made some big saves in the third to keep us in the game.

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is the inefficiency

Jannie Coverdale

He's just trying to save his own skin.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Mike Kuntz

I think it's going to save a lot of lives.

Mike Strauss

There is no better way to put it other than it saves lives.

Richard Sommer

I think it's really important to save a little as a benchmark.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Robbie Coltraine

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

John Husing

If it works the way everyone thinks it will, we should be OK.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Jason Bay

He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.

Ron Gardenhire

He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.

Paul Shefrin

He wants this to be the coming-out party.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Sam Claflin

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

Steven Spielberg

Whatever he wants to do. That's how I feel about it.

Joe Dumars

I think we will get something done long-term. We are going to keep him here. Tay wants that, I want that and Duffy wants that. We'll get something done.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Virchand Gandhi

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

William J. Clinton

The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

Will Ferrell

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog

Sarah Brightman

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

Richard Roeper

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

Richard Le Gallienne

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

Tori Amos

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Ron Haskins

They come here ready, willing and able to work and they do it.

Rob Portman

The US is willing to take some pain,

Carlos Abesamis

They can always come in. We are willing to cooperate.

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

David Brody

She'll kind of be tossed in there, but she's willing to work,