Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Roberta Zelleke

As parents, we're not ready for this. We don't see it coming. We can't stop it, but we can change how we react to it.

Courteney Cox

That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.

Laurence Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes yourdestiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in yourlife. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as wellas your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought isgoing.

John Edgar Wideman

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Debbie Ford

Real change happens when you feel genuinely inspired, turned on by possibility and unwilling to settle for anything less.

Doug Adkins

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Kim Rupert

Productivity still remains really solid, and one of the hallmarks of this whole expansion. If we can hang on to that I think the perception of where we're going in the market could change dramatically.

Lamar Alexander

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Dick Mountjoy

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Ed Conley

People come and go voluntarily, some moved to friends' houses, others found a house, went to other parts of the country or any sort of arrangement. They need to feel home somewhere after what they experienced.

Doug Holland

People grumble about Hispanic employees being here, but they're the only workers we can get. They take jobs that no one in this country wants.

Kevin Daugherty

Offensively we were very patient and made sure we got great shots. Defensively our 2-3 zone was tough. North Country didn't have a great shooting night, either, and I'm sure that helped.

Red Berenson

Offensively, we've scored a half-goal less than last year, when we led the country in goal,. and we've given up a half-goal more than last year.

John Chaney

Of course they earned them. They make more free throws per game than any other team in the country attempts. That's because they're a great team.

John Milton

Of herbs and other country messes, / Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

William Rehnquist

The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity.

Richard Gephardt

The Supreme Court has made its decision. We support and respect Vice President Gore's right to respond on his own time schedule. Until he does so, we will have no comment.

Mick Price

The things he (Ritchie) does on the court often go unnoticed. But, you look at his line tonight - 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists - and you can understand why we got off to such a great start.

Jonathan Harris

I've never been in this court at all or even Peabody too much.

Jacob Frenkel

a desperate move made with the hope of eliciting some sympathy from the court to permit him to spend some part of the remainder of his life outside of jail.

Briann January

After halftime, that's all I shot when I went out on to the court before the second half started. I shot free throws because the time might come when I needed to shot some.

Lorenzo Carmon

Some people will wait until they see the pipes going in the ground to come sign up, but it gets to be more expensive when you do that.

Larry Sabato

This is going to be a very expensive race between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent.

John Truscott

This isn't a public service announcement, it's a very expensive radio campaign. It's unfortunate that a seemingly good program has been tainted.

John Townsend

You're standing on hallowed ground here. Sometimes hallowed ground is very expensive ground.

Tom Barton

We like to refer to those servers as the most expensive they ever purchased.

Vince Pardo

We've heard from groups that it's too expensive to use portable stages.

Joe Carson

We source locally for items that would be prohibitively expensive to ship.

Anthony Michael Hall

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Elliott Abrams

Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.

Howard Staunton

The Rook has the same power in taking as the Queen, forwards, backwards, and sideways, but he cannot, like her, take any man diagonally.

Scott Skiles

It would be nice to have Darius because he is another big man who can shoot it. There's a lot of pressure on Malik because he's our only big who can shoot it outside.

Sathya Baba

The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.

Johnny Knoxville

I should quit, but man we have so much fun.

Henry David Thoreau

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Cesar Chavez

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

Al Gore

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

bell hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Brian Weiss

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Edward Norton

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

Edward Abbey

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Brian Perkins

All truth is very ordinary.

Orson Scott Card

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Thomas Merton

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Tanith Lee

No one is ever ordinary.

Seth Godin

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Rajneesh

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Michael Bergin

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Marilynne Robinson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Kay Yow

Offensively, we never got it going. We didn't play well on the inside. We didn't play well on the outside ... (FSU) played very well defensively.

Jason Leffler

We did not come here to run outside of the top 10,

Tom Richardson

Even though it was an outside chance, that could have been me on the shuttle. It's kind of scary.

David Rossi

At this point in the semester our students would have already been suspended outside of school 700 days.

Hayley Wickenheiser

We are a pro team in every sense of the word outside of being paid like pro players.

Joe Hale

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical.

Mike Parks

We just had one today outside a restaurant.

Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Stuart Wilde

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Margaret Drabble

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

May Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Oscar Wilde

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

J. C. Ryle

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Dave Tippett

He sees them as well as anybody, and I trust what he has to stay.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

John Newcombe

Things will get pretty serious if he (Philippoussis) doesn't get something going by the end of the year.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Sam Hill

There are some pretty serious felonies on the list,

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Allen Ginsberg

Everybody's serious but me.

Albert Oehlen

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

Don DeLillo

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Ben Hecht

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Mike Murdock

Don't waste your time, it is too short, Valuable and irreplaceable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life.

Ernest Hemingway

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Isaac of Nineveh

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.