Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

David A. Bednar

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

Ganesh Subbarayan

The overall philosophy behind the design approach can be extended to enable one to understand the impact of changes in suppliers' components on the performance of a complex system without revealing details of the components or the system. This will enable suppliers to retain their proprietary design knowledge without revealing each other's intellectual property. Such strategies are critical as products are increasingly designed and produced in a globally distributed manner.

Bob Maxwell

The past will be forgotten quickly. The new director has the sound approach to take the zoo to new levels and keep it fresh.

Barbara Kopple

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

Chris Ware

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'

Chris Crutcher

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

Niklaus Wirth

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Tom Beekman

The $2.0 million less the cost of the studies might leave $1.5, $1.3 million. You might get the ramps for that, but if you get into reconstruction of that bridge and the approaches to bring them to standards for the next 30 to 40 years, that would could easily double the cost of construction.

Nikolai Patrushev

The accomplishment of this objective demands a high degree of responsibility and a balanced approach in order to maintain the effectiveness of measures aimed at establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic and normalizing the regional situation.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Gilbert White

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

Bill Vaughan

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

Bob Hoffman

Maybe if you're on the highway, you could hit a deer and fuel your car, or you could use leftovers from deer season.

Brad Anderson

I was in my tree stand sitting on the edge of a cornfield about 6:30 p.m. when two deer walked out,

Steve Oestreicher

We have been talking about baiting and feeding for years and years. We just got to get these deer more evenly distributed.

Author unknown

If a wolf can take down a deer from either flank, does that make him bambidextrous?

Rodney Harrison

He's 6-foot-4, runs like a deer and can jump like Kobe Bryant.

Gary Morris

Hunters are responsible for a lot more than just going out and taking a deer or a buck.

Ben Long

He was enormous. I've hunted deer since I was 12, that's 25 years, and I've never seen one as big as him.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Becky G

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

Hugh Johnson

That was a signal that we were headed toward distress.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Gene Allen

We can't hold our heads down. I think that's good. We'll be fine.

Rodney Brooks

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

Pat Mitchell

As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

Reese Witherspoon

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Mike Conrad

Timely hitting has been our nemesis in this tournament.

Bill Doba

We've had enough hitting. The kids are tired of hitting each other.

Johnny Smith

We just went back to the fundamentals of hitting this year. It's just making contact. We're not trying to hit home runs.

John Neal

I thought he was going to make it, because I was late and he'd been hitting everything. He kicked his legs out and kinda jumped into me.

Lt. Sanders

Just keep hitting them, that's how we make a dent.

Bernhard Langer

I'm still in shock. I started hitting double-crosses out here and you can't do that. I didn't hit another fairway the rest of the round.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Chris Carter

Hunting whales is like hunting tigers (or) gorillas. New Zealanders regard it as unjustifiable,

Joe Lewandowski

Hunting revenue is not growing. It's pretty much staying flat.

Billy Baldwin

If they really want to make some changes, then it's treatment that we're looking at. Not witch hunting on the industry.

Bill Gottschalk

I don't have time to fish. I take my time off in the hunting season.

Ed Asner

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

Mike Hayhurst

We're still struggling to get things right. We're still moving people around and still hunting for the right player at the right position.

Charles M. Schwab

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

Dave Barry

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Rick Searfoss

As I look at the landscape, I see some big dinosaurs. And you've got all these little mammals running around.

George Phillips

Even adults refer to prehistoric mammals as dinosaurs.

Danny Walker

There is a lot of research about that time period and those mammals that could be done there. But there's no money.

Chuck D.

It's probably one of the most studied mammals in the world.

John B. S. Haldane

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

Jim Morrison

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Susan Blackmore

If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

Richard Cate

Most of my years there were only two of us in my grade. So I know something about small schools.

Milton McGregor

You'll have big winners, and you'll have small winners.

Ang Lee

I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Aaron Sanchez

I think I can find a house, ... but a small house.

John Armato

But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Antoine Fuqua

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Bertrand Russell

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Mark Brown

We have been working for 10 years to get new tools for infrastructure development.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Charles Lamb

Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

Brene Brown

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

Denise Levertov

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Craig David

I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life...

Larry Starkey

We don't know why she was walking or where she was going.

Souza

We don't know who's walking around out there with Barrett's that we need to watch,

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.