Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Steve McKinney

I help companies educate their employees; I help churches and companies educate their people, We went out and purchased equipment for them and helped them set up their own program.

Ron Sellers

A lot of churches out there don't think through the use of the Internet as a strategic tool. They simply think, 'We need an Internet site -- put something up.' So that, I think, really lends itself to an incomplete use of what the Internet does have to offer.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Nancy Ammerman

These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Mark Iverson

Through the help of local churches service organizations, businesses, and generous individuals, the students and classmates hope to raise $30,000 by March 1.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Robert H. Schuller

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

Alan Greene

We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still consider some of those churches very supportive.

Viktor Yushchenko

I have heard a lot of stories and legends on how this poison has been delivered, where it has been produced, which secret services were used for delivering it in Ukraine,

Jeff Bezos

In Q4 of '99, we did a great job of delivering for customers, but it was very costly for us, ... In Q4 of 2000, we did an even better job of delivering for customers, but at a much, much lower cost.

John Browning

It's a different world. The new group will have to operate differently. The industrial partners will play an important role. If there's a product the government wants, they will necessarily be focused on delivering that. A lot more money will be at stake.

M. Thompson

We had a strong finish to 2005, a year of major transition for Fairchild, by delivering solid fourth-quarter sales and gross margin growth.

Roxane Gay

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

Mary Gill

I don't think our school police officers should be delivering mail when it's something that we can receive via the Internet. They have more important things to do.

Cynthia Carroll

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

Bruce Wilkinson

When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can then deliver the miracle to the other person.

James Schamus

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

David Kirk

I'm passionately interested in the media and want to be engaged in it,

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Janelle Hironimus

None of the attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Ira Sorkin

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in illegal conduct. They don't have to be unanimous as to who at Andersen is the agent.

Ilene Chaiken

Ours is probably in the top tier of shows that have such an engaged fan base. Fans really want to be involved and to provide feedback about what should happen with these characters, and this is a great way to interact with our audience.

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Andrea Seigel

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

The Grimm

After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly,

Thomas Mann

Do you know how many times campaign-finance reform failed before final passage in 2002? Many times.

Dan Duncan

Some people go through treatment more than once and some never respond to treatment. But most people put their lives together quietly, silently, anonymously. You don't see or hear from them, so we are left with gauging our impressions of treatment on those who have failed or relapsed, and that gives a grossly incomplete picture.

Kevin Madden

Ronnie Earle's previous misuse of his office has resulted in failed prosecutions and we trust his partisan grandstanding will strike out again, as it should.

Stanley Chou

The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.

Jim Poolman

This is an issue that has been discussed, but it's not gaining much traction.

Tom Renney

This is one of our less disciplined nights this season. We've been noted for gaining respect from our opponents, and we don't want that to slip away.

Michael Ryder

Every game is pivotal, but we are at the point we are getting better and gaining the kind of momentum that you need at this point of the season. This is the kind of test that you need, especially when you end strong.

Edgar Prado

She was in a good position but (Proposed) had quicker acceleration than my filly. I think that was the difference. But my horse was gaining and she galloped out good and strong.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Steve Adams

Hopefully I am gaining knowledge of lottery essentials.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Kate Michelman

We're not losing the war, but the other side's gaining ground.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Carolina Herrera

Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident.

Willie Anderson

Just one thing. Coaching. We got good coaching. It's that simple.

Witold Gombrowicz

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Shusaku Endo

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Taylor Swift

being open isn't the same as being weak.

Rachel Field

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

George MacDonald

All haste implies weakness.

John F. Kennedy

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.