Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Skrainka

I think investors should take a step back and look at the big picture. I think the (Fed) is doing its job and investors should do theirs -- avoid those companies that do not have a track record of growth.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Mark McClain

I think we can avoid bankruptcy. But people are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with the realities of the financial situation.

John Reid

It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.

Robin Gibb

I was in the car on my way to London, and Radio 2 was doing the Bee Gees story. They started playing the demos we'd made, then I heard Maurice talking. Suddenly that feeling of helplessness and non-acceptance came flooding back. I don't think you can ever come to terms with something like this. But you can learn to live with it.

Dontrelle Willis

Keep winning and get to the postseason, ... I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

Chris Knight

Joshi is one of the best brewers in the United States, ... His beer tastes like one of our fancy $15-a-bottle beers.

Gil Brandt

He was a fun-loving Austrian. ...He was well liked by the players because he went out and drank beer with them.

William Howells

Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

William Howells

Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings.

Ryan Gregorio

We're probably the shortest team so we really have to beef up our frontline.

Mark Johnson

I think some people might have the perception that I jumped straight off the beer truck to qualifying school. In actuality, it wasn't like that at all.

Andrew Flintoff

I went up but there's a lot of noise out there and the crowd were loud, ... A few beers had gone down and they were quite vocal. I went up on what I heard.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Mahmoud Abbas

That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever.

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Norwegian Proverb

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Mike Levine

The faculty have been working hard on this for a year now. We are starting a school improvement team which consists of faculty, parents, and students.

Harlan Miller

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Patrick Carney

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

Source Unknown

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.

Charles Babbage

Another contrivance for regulating the effect of machinery consists in a vane or fly, of little weight, but presenting a large surface.

Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

Marty Schottenheimer

He's got a tremendous opportunity and quite a challenge. But work has never been an issue for him. . . . He's been a diligent worker. He's been a quick study. He's spent a lot of time with the offensive line as well as the skill people.

Pat Riley

He's got to be out there on the floor, consistently. Every time he's not, it takes him out of his rhythm. He's got to be more diligent - and we've got to be more diligent - as to the kind of fouls he takes.

Steve Swanson

I'm gratified that that the F.B.I. has been diligent in their pursuit of these people.

Michael Casey

To us he was 'Papa,' a quiet and kind man who took all of his grandchildren out to learn to play golf. He was also a diligent problem solver.

Menander

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Greg Puhalski

This was as good as we've competed in awhile. It was a good bounce-back game from Wednesday. It was a good effort. It was a matter of playing better hockey. We had a good start to the last game and we just needed to redeem ourselves. We have to be a hard-working team and extremely diligent in our efforts. I thought we did a lot of the little things tonight pretty well.

Jim Calhoun

Tonight I'll probably keep my eye on the two point guards very diligently to see what they do.

John McBride

He's very perceptive, very laid back, works hard. He's very diligent about what he does with his skiing. He's a pleasure to be around, an easy guy to work with.

Zach Johnson

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

Janet Reno

Law enforcement authorities have told us they need a nationwide method to gather and review these types of Internet-related complaints,

Pat Riley

I'd like to secure what we've had all season, which is the number two spot (in the playoffs). We have to gather ourselves and get back on track.

Ron Reagan

We can gather without posting notice. Of course, we are always open if members of the public want to join us.

Michael Redman

If you take too much time looking for things or gathering stuff you may not make it in time.

Antonin Scalia

I gather they don't know where it is,

Judi Hensley

In the 22 years I've been here, it will be the largest gathering (of faculty) in regalia that we've had here on campus. I think it shows their support.

Christa Miller

I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun.

Greg Wilkinson

We're like everyone else. We're trying to gather information, but information is hard to come by.

Stew Morrill

Any time you have talent gathering like that, it's a positive situation. They've got to feel good about what they've got. It looks very promising for them.

Michael Redman

If you take too much time looking for things or gathering stuff you may not make it in time.

Judi Hensley

In the 22 years I've been here, it will be the largest gathering (of faculty) in regalia that we've had here on campus. I think it shows their support.

Stew Morrill

Any time you have talent gathering like that, it's a positive situation. They've got to feel good about what they've got. It looks very promising for them.

John Kelly

It's right up there with the revenue gathering myth.

Kevin Evans

It takes more than just gathering talent to win in football.

Bill Woods

It's an institution, it's a gathering place. It's a real part of the community.

Leonardo DiCaprio

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

Susan Lyne

Music helps set the tone for any occasion. Martha's selections for this compilation will make any holiday gathering more festive.

Frank Herbert

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

William Shakespeare

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop

Richelle Mead

Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Rebecca West

There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

Richard Crashaw

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Shatner

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Robert E. Lee

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Samuel Daniel

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Saint Francis de Sales

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Robert Jordan

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Atharva Veda

Sweet as honey is my entrance, sweet as honey my departure. With my voice do I speak sweet as honey, may I become like honey!

Moe Howard

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

Nicki Minaj

Anyway I got a tight little honey dip That's why these niggas get tight when honey dip

Ava Gardner

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

Rachel Caine

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.

Paulo Coelho

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

Tennessee Williams

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

David Nabarro

And then there will be an interval of perhaps six months until we have a reasonable quantity of vaccine.

Rick Moranis

The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland.

William Cowper

How soft the music of those village bellsFalling at intervals upon the earIn cadence sweet!

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Rick Warren

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

Ella Wilcox

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

Neale Donald Walsch

Act only in Love. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.

Milan Kundera

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Marcel Proust

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

Jose Carreras

I am always living very good moments.

Jonny Lee Miller

I always know I can die at any moment.

Jonathan Schell

Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

Adrienne Barbeau

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Richard Barnfield

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Richard Baxter

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Rebecca West

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

Richard Bach

Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.

Ryan Lochte

Pain is temporarily, but pride last forever

Ryan Lochte

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

William Congreve

Who pleases one against his will.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Samuel Johnson

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

William Cowper

I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Tom Williams

He rose to the occasion. It's the second time he's run it.

Richelle Mead

Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. 'Well at least not in such a public setting.'- Dimitri Belikov

Richelle Mead

To my surprise, I recognized Dimitri Belikov-Rose's boyfriend-among those doing crowd control. He was easy to spot since he was almost always taller than everyone around him. Dhampirs look very human, and even I could admit that he was pretty good-looking. There was a rugged handsomeness to him, and even in a still photograph, I could see a fierceness as he watched the crowd.

Richelle Mead

We can be together, Rose. Soon. We're almost there. And nothing will ever keep us apart.......

Richelle Mead

You have to protect her. The more she uses it, the worse it'll get. Stop her, Rose. Stop her before they notice, before they notice and take her away too. Get her out of here." [...] "Don't let her use the power!. . .Save her. Save her from herself!

Richelle Mead

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

Richelle Mead

You see something you like?

Willa Cather

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

Walter Benjamin

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.