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.

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Shirley Gritz

As he was doing it, he was saying maybe these are some of my ancestors and my people here. It really was something for him.

Ruth Reichl

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Alice Walker

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Paul Auster

I took a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. In The Locked Room, the third volume of the New York Trilogy, there's a sequence where the narrator talks about working for the census, and I took this straight from life. As in the book, I wound up inventing people. Kind of curious.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Joe Carson

Previously the Fed had a reason to raise rates. There is no compelling reason to raise rates at the present time.

Kim Edwards

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Frank Lautenberg

The compelling factor, I've got to tell you, in my decision was the searing reality that I would have to spend half of every day between now and the next election fund-raising,

Tim Cranton

This is compelling information that will hopefully get people's attention.

Greg Robinson

They made a couple of really compelling arguments (Tuesday) night,

Sheldon Adelson

I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

Shane Carruth

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

Alexandra Picavet

I think it's more the mystery that everyone is intrigued by the fact that here's this plane that crashed more than 63 years ago, and there's still somebody up there.

James Norton

I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.

Gary Arnold

They just crashed down and I didn't know how to get help.

Leigh Steinberg

The fact that one plane crashed is tragic, and my heart goes out to those who are affected. But automobiles crash every day.

Allen Kenitzer

The plane, we're told, crashed into power lines for unknown reasons and was destroyed by fire.

Steve Kinser

I was glad to see Kraig win the Nationals the other night, ... I probably would have given him a pretty good race if I wouldn't have crashed (in a preliminary race).

Richard Rodgers

It crashed so close, it could have hit Johnstown - but it's part of the whole nation's history.

Danica Patrick

Yeah, OK. I think they've crashed every race.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Mark Tyndale

I don't know what hours he likes to go, but whatever hours he comes up with, I'm willing to work for him.

Michael McKinney

I could sit and talk to them for three hours if I have the time,

William Bolar

He loves for it as I do. We can talk on the phone for hours about it.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Ben Goldacre

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Aristotle

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Steve Earle

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Sutton Foster

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

Mortimer Adler

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Peter Drucker

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

Mason Cooley

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Henry David Thoreau

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Jeb Putzier

It comes out to $310 million more for the players.

Bobby Cox

He's getting paid $12 million because he can hit.

Stephen Breyer

He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

Simon McBurney

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Eduardo Paes

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Andy Milonakis

I just want $1 million next season, that's all I want,

Tom Williams

because it was the right thing to do for our 1.5 million employees. We feel that they need to be treated with respect and feel valued--no exceptions.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Michelle Monaghan

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Jack Roush

He proved he could keep a truck or racing vehicle off the wall.

Didier Deschamps

Over the two legs, PSV proved they were a better side than us. They are a strong and solid team.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Richard Attias

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Gerry Harvey

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

Robert Lichter

We thought that nothing could top the O.J. Simpson story and this proved us wrong.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Sara Gruen

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.