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.

Doc Rivers

What really makes me excited is that it (ticks) Gilbert Arenas off because that's what he said the last time. It was a great win for us.

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.

Fritz Elmendorf

We've seen record numbers of bankruptcies every year. The lending industry feels there are a number of filings that are abusive and could have been avoided.

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.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Sandra Sanchez

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Joe Garcia

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

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?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

John Pironti

The Social Security number is the Holy Grail. It's the one piece of information about a person that can be used to unlock all other pieces of their personal information.

Nick Swisher

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

Lauren Holly

Did you see the first episode? Did you see what we were doing in that flashback? Holy cow. Yeah, I think there's going to be some interesting stuff between Mark and me.

Lauren Holly

Did you see the first episode? ... Did you see what we were doing in that flashback? Holy cow. Yeah, I think there's going to be some interesting stuff between Mark and me.

Pope Benedict

We wish to pray for peace in the Holy Land.

Abu Bakr

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Rajneesh

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

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.

Margaret Mead

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

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.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

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

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

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

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

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.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

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

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

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.

Conor Oberst

I want a lover I don't have to love

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.

John Fernandes

Right now we are in the midst of running down leads.

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.

Ji-Hae Park

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Rick Carlisle

It's been tough. We're still in the midst of the playoff picture and we'll have to win our way in. We aren't going to back our way in, that's pretty clear.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

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.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

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.

Eckhart Tolle

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

David Bowie

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Gilbert Arenas

First time on television, we won. It was a special moment for us.

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.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

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

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

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.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Rush Limbaugh

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

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.

Charles E. Merrill

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

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.

Ayn Rand

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

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.

Brad Pitt

I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.

Jane Wiedlin

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

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.

Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

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.

Tim Mambort

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

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

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

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

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.

Audie Murphy

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

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.