Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the long glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there, Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun, Or the sunbeams dart through them.

John Hodgman

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

Loren Eiseley

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

Lord Chesterfield

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

Maggie Stiefvater

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

Madame de Stael

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]

Emile Durkheim

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Arthur Golden

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Dave Ramsey

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

Bruce Alter

Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Gillian Zucker

We had a goal that we were working for and we met it.

Bernie Sanders

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Trevor Letowski

We just hung (Denis) out to dry. Their third goal was a big one. They were all over us in the second period, but to give one up like that . . .

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Desmond Tutu

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Dashiell Hammett

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Curtis Jackson

I have a romantic side.