Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ulysses Grant

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

S. Walker

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Michael McDermott

That's a disgrace that they couldn't even get his name right. It's a slap in the face.

Lauro Baja

The two are a disgrace to the Philippines, the Filipino people, and Filipino peacekeepers who are proudly serving in United Nations missions worldwide,

Butch Goncharoff

It was not our year. It happens. It was Prosser's day. We kept fighting right up until the last play. There's no disgrace in that.

Hesiod

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

Labor is no disgrace.

Steven Aftergood

A lot of what we think we know of our recent history may be mistaken, ... It is a disgrace that it should be so in a democracy, but it is.

Mark Harmon

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

Billy Joel

I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,

George Kell

Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Eddie Jones

If you remember back in 2000, Sam had an outstanding season with Queensland and was really pressuring George for the Wallabies spot.

Will Wright

Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.

Fred Hartsfield

I hope I have had an impact. I'm very impressed with George and how hard they play.

Sherman Hart

I pulled back this meet to try and stay healthy for our first real test in George Mason.

Rupert Lowe

In George and Clive we have got a management team of undoubted quality with strengths in complementary areas.

James Fitzgerald

He just did not wish to spend all his life in a jail in Colorado. He wanted better jail conditions.

E. O. Wilson

He's going to jail for us and I think the symbolism is he's not doing this alone.

Jimmy Brown

It is probably the worst-run jail I can remember seeing in my 30 years of practice. It's not working. It's broken.

David Irving

I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.

Rob Reiner

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Richelle Mead

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Russell Brand

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

Tyler Perry

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Will Ferrell

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Jason Collins

Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.

Joseph Lowery

Here's a man who may have a major-league arm, but he's got a bush-league attitude.

Lynne Abraham

Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.

Shannon Flaherty

Here you have a man running for national office, and he's not qualified to be a precinct chair.

Richelle Mead

I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

Richelle Mead

Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out

Richelle Mead

Sorry, Sage. Last I checked, you aren’t an expert in social matters..." "At least I take action. You? You let the world go by without you. You have no spine. You don’t fight back." “You don’t know the first thing about me, Adrian Ivashkov. I fight back plenty.

Richelle Mead

Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think you're her type. She's into the Goth and vampire scene. You're too mainstream for her." I was sipping a glass of water and nearly choked on it. "That," said Peter, as soon as Doug was gone, "is what we call irony." "How is that possible?" exclaimed Cody. "I am a vampire. I should be exactly what she wants." "Yeah, but you don't look like one," I said. If Gabrielle had been a Trekkie, he might have had a shot tonight.

Richelle Mead

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

Richelle Mead

He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

Richelle Mead

That's smart. Once Sonya's able to talk, we'll need to move." He smiled. "Sydney's turning into a battle mastermind." "Hey, she's not in charge here," I teased. "She's just a soldier." "Right." He lightly brushed his fingers against my cheek. "Sorry, Captain." "General," I corrected, catching my breath at that brief touch.

Richelle Mead

I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get better?" The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I...I don't know.

Ryan Lochte

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Richard Rorty

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Reba McEntire

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

River Phoenix

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Robert M. Gates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.