Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

Mark Ambrose

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Deval Patrick

In a healthy democracy, the voters choose representatives. In the system we have, the representatives choose the voters. That's upside down. This proposal puts us right side up again.

Martin Rees

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

Tayshaun Prince

If you keep him out of the paint, that means you've got to sag off your man and he's probably the No. 1 in the league in terms of finding the open man. It's kind of a pick and choose your poison with him. Do you want to try contain him and let him shoot open shots? Or let him penetrate and get him?

Bob Holthus

If you lined up Lawyer Ron and Red Raymond and had to choose which one would win the Kentucky Derby, it would be Red Raymond. He's a good-looking horse.

John Lewis Gaddis

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Mike Chinoy

It leaves questions open about the mechanics of choosing a long-term successor,

Najib Razak

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Chuck Schumer

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,

Dave Annable

After 'Brothers & Sisters' ended, I was back to the old game as an actor. Doing pilot season, choosing a script and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Anthony Hitt

Engel & Volkers real estate advisors are specifically - and continuously - trained to understand and handle the needs of property transactions in the premium segments of their markets. We keep our shops small, with truly talented professionals who are choosing Engel & Volkers because of the extensive connections and support we provide them.

Bob Muglia

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

Parker Palmer

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Martin Scorsese

Just when people think he gives you one thing, ... he gives you another.

Jeffrey Edelman

I think it gives them another way to become more visible.

Steve Sanders

I think it gives me more of a leadership role on the team, because some of the guys know I have a son and they see how I act,

Bruce Bochy

He can play all three outfield positions and first base. He's a solid player. He gives you quality at-bats.

Rebecca Loos

He knows what you want and he gives it to you and it is all about you, not so much about him, so you know that's nice

O. Singh

He judges things to be good, only as long as the Lord gives and he receives.

Latin Proverb

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another

George Pierce Baker

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Dan Gilroy

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Sara Zarr

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Robert Rauschenberg

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

Vittorio Alfieri

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Virgil

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Willard Gaylin

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Raymond Chandler

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

William Wordsworth

A power is passing from the earth.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.