Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Perrin

We're getting better at hitting behind runners and advancing runners. We had more balls hit to the right side today, so I felt better about that, and I'd like to see it more often.

Colleen Hanabusa

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

Greg Baroni

As we have for 30 years, Unisys supports NASA in its dedication to advancing aeronautics research and space exploration. Modeling and simulation are critical to aerospace research and we are proud to put our expertise in those areas to work for NASA.

Leslie Preston

A strong payrolls gain was largely telegraphed by the jobless claims decline and shouldn't be a big shock to markets if wages aren't too threatening. Wages are advancing a fairly tame pace.

Jack Krebs

They (state school board members) are allowing the intelligent-design minority to bypass the scientific community. While not specifically mentioning religious concepts, it's advancing a sectarian religious view. They're treading on some constitutional grounds here.

Bill Turnage

They felt they were in the presence of someone who wasn't interested in advancing himself, who wasn't interested in getting elected to something -- someone who simply loved America and loved the American wilderness.

Todd Vesely

This meet is all about advancing to the next round. We have such a strong district that I think that every team is going to be able to make the qualifying mark.

Jim Schoenfeld

They're both very bright, energetic and efficient. They're advancing in leaps and bounds, and I think it's great to see not only the area of growth, but the speed they've taken to coaching. It's like they've been doing it for a long time.

Peter Jackson

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Source Unknown

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Rig Veda

A person, who desires godliness should worship gods.

Debbie Ford

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Sathya Baba

You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.

Kim Jee-woon

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Layne Staley

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Wolfgang Bernhard

The product palette of Volkswagen hasn't had a family friendly van which speaks to the specific desires of our American customers. With this new vehicle, we will quickly tap into another large market segment with our own product.

Tim White

There will always be ebb and flow. In between Lord of the Rings and King Kong there were probably people who were making a living doing commercials.

Jane Addams

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Walter Matthau

You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.

Skip Prosser

There's not much to say. We're obviously at a low ebb right now. We have to find a way somehow within ourselves to fight our way out.

Amy Levy

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

Mark Ruffalo

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

Hillary Clinton

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

Claude Noel

I don't really mind the penalties but I don't like losing the rhythm. I like the rhythm from playing 5 on 5; we generate things then. Losing a man hurts our ebb and flow.

Ovid

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Bikram Choudhury

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Edmund Wilson

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Matthew Stewart

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Stephen Kenny

It was an outstanding win and I am immensely proud of the players.

Dan Osipow

That to me sounds very Lance-like. It leaves things open and the motivation seems pretty clear. He is immensely proud of his reputation.

Ken Livingstone

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

John Kasarda

This will shed light...on the immense contributions that many people who are undocumented are making.

Bruce James

He took immense pride in slaying the sacred cows.

Sigi Schmid

My objective is that we want to win a title this year. If it doesn't happen, we are going to be immensely better than last year. It doesn't take that long to turn around a team.

Sally Schneider

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Richard Berry

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep, ... A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Sathya Baba

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

Charles Lindbergh

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Bret Bicoy

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Jon Wagner

We're banged up after the individual state tournament.. But these kids have been resilient all year long and we've battled through a lot this season.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Dickens

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Charles Dickens

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Maria Rodriguez

A march is one thing and a movement is another. And that's precisely the point where we are today: how do we move from a march to a movement?

Richard Shelley

The symptoms started on March 1 and escalated over the weekend.

Jeff Parker

The Olympics may seem to be a long ways away, but time marches on.

Nikolai Vlasov

The vaccinations will start, if not on March 10, then on March 11.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Brian Eno

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Jennifer Rodriguez

Wow! I'm really touched. This means a lot to me.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Frederic Bastiat

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Charlie Munger

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

David Livingstone

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

Victor Hugo

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

George Washington

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

Hans Christian Andersen

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

Jean Lacordaire

All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.

Marcus Aurelius

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Dan Hopkins

It must be a slow day around (Democratic) offices.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Clint Hurdle

Sometimes we are going to slow him down a little bit.

Leah Gingrich

(Saturday) I thought I was going slower than I was.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

Beth Brooke

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Akhenaton

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

Chick Corea

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

Chief Joseph

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Stephen King

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Vanna Bonta

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Christian Slater

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

P. G. Wodehouse

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.