Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

David Emerson

We are pleased with this decision because it reflects the position we have maintained all along. The United States can no longer claim that its measure is WTO-consistent.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Wayne Allen

We have no suspects and nobody has claimed responsibility at this time,

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Jacques Chirac

a man of courage and conviction who has incarnated, for 40 years, the fight of Palestinians for the recognition of their national rights.

Paul Chavez

They set the stage for everything. Nobody showed the kind of conviction these men did.

Dennis Perry

There is tremendous conviction here that people will not let it happen. Democracy is not working here, it's the only route we've got.

Joe Kalinowski

It was strong enough to say with conviction that we're not going to come to grinding halt, but weak enough that the Fed can stay on hold, ... It's Goldilocks again.

Larry Rice

It's a very tentative-type market where people are going to opt for safety and wait it out. I think there's just a lack of conviction here.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Denny Pattyn

Say it to God and tell him what you intend to accomplish, say it with conviction and passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.

Don Piatt

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Benjamin Disraeli

We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.

Andrea Clabaugh

It seems that this young man was interested in hurting people, possibly the U.S. or enemies of Islam, but I have not seen any evidence that he actually did anything.

William Blake

A man's worst enemies are thoseOf his own house and family;And he who makes his law a curse,By his own law shall surely die.

Alain Lesage

They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.

William Blake

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

Bob Dole

You don't go out and hurt somebody's feelings. We have opponents and not enemies in this business.

Youssef Ibrahim

They're learning they have many enemies over there.

Jim Cooper

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Charles Stanley

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley

Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine?

Charles Spurgeon

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Spurgeon

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Charles Spurgeon

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Beth Moore

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Marita Payne

A lot of Americans just know the stereotypical things about Australia. The first year, I got pretty sick about hearing the same things over and over again, so I started playing along. Some of the things people come up with are pretty funny.

Heath Neiderer

They know someone who is there, perhaps it's a sibling or cousin. They are also hearing their parents talk about it.

Arlen Specter

It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,

Michelle Landry

I took an umbrella around with me all day and never used it. Actually, I worried about the weather all day. I kept hearing about tornadoes. I was worried for my children.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Chief Joseph

Big name often stands on small legs.

Edward Gibbon

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.

Edward Gibbon

Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Eddie Izzard

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

Mike Hass

Even after the years I've had in college, having proved myself, everyone still wants to see something else from me.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagin'd

Lauren Goodman

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

Trevor Goddard

Someone said he wouldn't make a run in Australia, he sort of proved them wrong.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Charles Spurgeon

I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Bleasdale

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

Alan Alda

I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

Al Purdy

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Al Smith

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

Al Jourgensen

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

David Hockney

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

Audre Lorde

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

Cassandra Peterson

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Cassandra Peterson

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Alice Walker

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Robert Herrick

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Meredith Ostrom

Im too sensitive and too sincere.