Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bikram Choudhury

I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.

C. S. Lewis

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Cecelia Ahern

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Carl Sagan

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Bethenny Frankel

Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

Bethany Hamilton

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Christina Baker Kline

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Rick Perlstein

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.

Marilynne Robinson

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Michael Morgan

We were staying in an abandoned hotel with no water, no lights, no food and kids, ... There were all kinds of dead stuff floating in the water. The water was black, stinking and greasy.

Darrel Good

Most analysts are on record with expectations of a decline in corn planting intentions and an increase in intentions for soybeans. The debate generally centers on the magnitude of the changes. Acreage of spring-planted crops, however, could deviate from intentions due to escalating spring wheat prices; potential for abandoned hard red winter wheat acreage to be replanted to other crops; changes, if any, in price relationships of spring-planted crops; and spring weather conditions.

Jane Redding

Why weren't we contacted first when they abandoned their plans (to use the land)?

Stephen Jones

When that effort failed, they abandoned the canoe and attempted to reach shore. They were in voice contact initially, then the water began to take its toll on them. The struggle was then to try to get out of the water themselves.

Paul Farmer

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

Michael McDowell

will provide a greater test over a longer period of the extent to which the Provisional movement (Sinn Fein and the IRA) has abandoned criminality in all its forms.