Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Edith Wharton

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

David Trimble

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Bear Grylls

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

Katherine Legge

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

We achieved this by ourselves. No parties helped us.

Jamie Oliver

We achieved such a lot in England with the school dinners campaign. Could we do the same in the States? Absolutely.

Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Alexander Chase

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

Alexander Chase

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Henry Hyde

as we enact these reforms, we must exercise some care in avoiding unforeseen consequences.

Washington Post

As President Bush prepares to visit India, the question is whether he can cement the improvement in US-India ties while avoiding negative spill-over effects.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Tom Ridge

They tell us that avoiding panic and confusion in a crisis helps them do their jobs better. So when you protect yourself, you're protecting your community, and it's one less concern that the first responders have at the time of an incident,

Ram Kumar

It started as a quiet and calm demonstration as we had promised for the sake of avoiding any hassles for the innocent bystanders but the police turned it into violence.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Jeff Horner

We want to show people we're the best team in the conference. We want to win the Big Ten Tournament and show that maybe we did deserve a little bit of the Big Ten title.

Greg Bolton

We want to serve families the best we can within the economy of scale.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Michael York

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Reg Keys

The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.

Davina McCall

The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.

Mike Parker

We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.

Mohammed Sharaf

There are big consequences for the British market if it doesn't go through, because investors are waiting for their money, the deal has been made.

Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Ibrahim Lipumba

We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.

James Augustine

They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.

Cynthia Ozick

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

Robert Ray

Our seniors still have that taste in their mouths. They weren't going to be denied this time.

Tom Glavine

I've never denied it was tough to leave Atlanta. It's interesting to me, for someone who's been so tightlipped, that I'm the only player he's even talked about. To me, that says there is something that needs to be explained.

Joseph Abood

The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process.

Randy Jordan

That's what we expect out of her. I felt like she wasn't going to be denied tonight. She kept saying that in the huddle.

Charles E. Wilson

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Jane Austen

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Tamika Williams

Wow, I'm getting old. She followed me at my old high school.

Mark Durante

We knew what Kinney would need to do to win today, and he followed the plan perfectly. He scrambled well and had great movement.

Robbie Burroughs

About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned into a pursuit.

Scott Moody

A lot of the newest wireless technologies come from the United States with all the entrepreneurial companies, ... But the market that always uses technology first is Japan. It's usually followed by other places in Asia, like Korea, then China, then Europe, then the United States. It always starts in Japan first.

Gerald Lefcourt

This is a man who followed his dream.

Dale Kunkel

It's not surprising that this format has worked internationally. What's surprising is that others haven't followed their model.

Warren County

There were no police reports to indicate she had been followed or threatened or anything like that,

David Flanagan

There's a process, the same one we've followed in the past.

Sara Stern

It's a tribute to the young lady who told her mother and the mother who told the principal. We followed all the procedures.

Helen Edell

We strongly suggest appointments, so someone who knows is here and can help and guide customers.

Bob Marley

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

Marina and the Diamonds

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

Heath Ledger

Working in Venice was like a four-month guided tour of the city. It was like shooting a film inside a museum.

Tim Heekin

They had an opportunity to get tech really rocking if they said something positive, but instead, they guided lower.

Peggy Brown

They guided us through the hoops and circles.

Eddie Murray

This man here has taught me so much, and he guided me through a lot of things. He was just special.

Pat Morita

It was interesting to watch the film with them, and for the first time I was relating to the Miyagi character, as the mentor, as the one trying to guide the misguided youth,

Fabian Nunez

Antonio doesn't do politics for the purpose of political expediency. His thinking is guided by what's in his heart, gut, and head.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Astro Teller

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

Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Herbert A. Simon

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Kenneth Fisher

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

Gary Shepherd

A lot of our sewage treatment plants are taking sludge and dumping it in landfills. What we are saying is maybe we should be harvesting that waste instead of letting it go.

Chan Gailey

They put pressure on you at all times. They stay on top of you. That's why they win 45-0 instead of 28-0 or 28-10.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Lorenzo Jones

School zones laws have contributed to the overall incarceration of urban residents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.

Morris Iemma

These are the toughest laws in the country.

Jason Catlett

That's like saying we can't have privacy laws for telephones to protect the privacy of telephone conversations because that might spill over into other areas,

Susan Danly

They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn't merely a record of something, it has an implication.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Mark Billingham

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Dave Schreiner

We do these things naturally and we don't talk about them.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Pat Rafter

He's naturally very gifted. Scotty's always been very unique in that way.

Shamir

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Larry Davis

We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day.

Jeff Sessions

You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Janet Yellen

I support the idea of a quantitative objective for price stability.

Mike Tyson

My objective is to be the ultimate professional.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Ona Solomon

Sometimes we just go for our own pleasure.

Phil Jackson

This is something I never thought could possibly happen, ... It's a pleasure to come back.

Kathleen Glynn

This really is a pleasure, and I thank all of you.

Arthur Adamov

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Gary Locke

These are the win-win opportunities we here in the U.S. should be pursuing in China.

Moira Kelly

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Chris Evans

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

Cathy Freeman

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Ed Speleers

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Blu Cantrell

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Vladimir Putin

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

Lester Sullivan

It's the one day when all of society is turned upside down.

David Gourevitch

They're going from one end of society all the way to the other.

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

David Scott

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Tim Donohoe

The system is really creaking and probably unsustainable in the long term.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Michael Chertoff

This is a system desperately in need of repair,

Ruth Ginsburg

That's just not the way our system works.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Alexander Yakovenko

envisages a two-tier system of electing a president.