Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Fitch

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.

Jerry Wainwright

You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole season.

Boz Scaggs

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Tom Jurich

We've said it from day one, that if this arena was going to cut into anything at the university then we weren't in favor of it. We reluctantly went downtown to be a team player and to be on the river to go in accordance with the task force and to be a full partner.

Tommy Amaker

We have respect for their team and their program. They've been able to do something we haven't done to get here, and that's go outside their home arena and win.

Wayne King

Don't get me wrong: It would be nice to have this type of arena here, but not at Lawson Creek Park.

Terry Stotts

Washington has won a lot of games with Arenas at the end. For T.J. to get that steal was just a huge play.

Phil Klay

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

John Eade

There's so much concern going on in the interest rate arena right now with a white-hot economy and fears of inflation starting to pick up again. The Fed wants to make sure inflation stays low.

Minnie Driver

Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.

Corey Koskie

It was a long time. It feels good to be back here.

Laurie Graham

As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.

Ariana Grande

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Delta Goodrem

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

Amy Denson

We got a feel for losing on the road. Now that we know what it feels like, that has to inspire us to play better. We have to be more disciplined and patient.

Jim Furyk

We helped each other and there's a lot of emotions, so a half-point kind of feels like a disappointment,

Chris Davis

We help a lot of people out, ... It feels good inside to know that you're making a difference.

Chris DiMarco

We hung in there. We grinded one out and got a half a point, ... That feels like a win, being 2 down with four to go.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Andrew Sullivan

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Jeremy Jackson

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Nick Swisher

D.J. can flat-out hit, holy smokes. I'm looking for big things from him.

Stephen Covey

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Andy Bryant

The quarter and the year are progressing in line with our expectations.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Justin Kirk

I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.

Paul Casey

It was tough. It picked up when we got to 11th and 12th and by then it was fierce. But that's why we play. It's a challenge. Actually, I quite love playing out there.

David Bolland

It was a phenomenal season, one every player would love to have.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

George Riley

At the moment I don't really know what I'm going to do.

Brian Brohm

We got that momentum going, got in a rhythm, and you saw (that) once we get into it, we can do pretty much anything we want to, ... We've got to get into that rhythm every game.

Alfred Stieglitz

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alicia Keys

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Sue Monk Kidd

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Amartya Sen

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Narendra Modi

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Alfred North Whitehead

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

E. O. Wilson

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

D. Elton Trueblood

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Bertrand Russell

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

Boris Kodjoe

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Brigham Young

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

Bobby Fischer

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

Bruce Kent

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Edward Abbey

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses....

Eddie Vedder

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Brian Jacques

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Brenda Strong

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

Jane Goodall

Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.

Jan Peter Balkenende

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.