Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diaa Rashwan

He is asserting his presence. He is keen to show that he is aware of what's going on in the world. He is well informed so he is not isolated or hiding in some crack underground.

Renato Reyes

If martial law did not prevent people from asserting their rights, how much more this. People will always create ways to circumvent this kind of intolerance ... This will be challenged on all fronts.

Richard Cooper

The FDA is asserting power to ban this industry,

Jeff Goodell

The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.

Stephanie Spears

Once she starts asserting dominance, males have to make a choice to submit to the new female or risk being attacked by the new female.

Joe Johnson

That just wasn't Jim Haslam. He was always willing to offer an opinion but never forcing you to do something or asserting a given opinion. He knew where that line was and stayed on the right side of it.

Sathya Baba

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.

Virginia Kice

We're asserting they are in violation of the terms of their visas and that they have no legal basis to be in the U.S..

Jonathan Ames

By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Mark Zandi

It is going to be a tough winter for many seniors. Not only will they face higher Medicare premiums, but record gasoline prices and higher home heating bills as well.

Bob Grantham

I was disappointed in some respect to see that some of these bills had been submitted have an effective date of July 1, 2007, which is going to be no help to the people who need the relief now.

Ken Mayland

There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there. On the one hand it's sad to see peoples' lives disrupted and destroyed. On the other hand, people are worrying about how they are going to pay their gasoline bills and their home heating bills this winter. It makes for a pretty bleak view of the future.

Stan Dixon

We try to provide as much information on the Web site as we can, and we encourage people to calculate their tax bills on the site. We want their help in uncovering any discrepancy or mistake that may be on their bill.

Tom Daschle

We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,

Heizo Takenaka

I am happy that understanding for the bills is spreading,

Mike Ross

I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.

William Stewart

Calling for lower heating bills as we stood there shivering was an effective comment.

Shandon Anderson

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

Jeremy Bloom

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

Oren Koules

He never put himself in front of anybody. He never did anything for the ego ? everything he did was for the betterment of the movie.

Richard Rohr

The ego knows itself by comparison.

Daryl Hall

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

Marcel Proust

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

Johnny Carson

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.

Ken Flowers

I've got one of the strongest backcourts in the state and there's no ego with them. If one guy's scoring a lot, there's no telling when somebody might run off 10 (points) or four straight. Those guys keep fighting. It's never about one guy -- it's about the team.

Colin Brown

Going into the auditions, I really did not have any expectations, ... I thought it was impossible to get on the show.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Steven Goldstein

It is impossible to overestimate how much this victory means to our organization and the LGBT community.

Richelle Mead

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Renny Harlin

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Rod Parsley

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

Rick Warren

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

Bill White

He wanted to know where he stood in this relationship. That's the only reason he went over there, ... He will tell you he had no intent to kill anyone.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Denise Layne

We're playing with technicalities, and the intent of what we tried to do is not there.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

Tom Hall

I don't feel (Sparks) had the intent to do what he did when he walked up to the yard.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Terry Allen

I'm looking to retire here. I have no intention of leaving here.

Chenzira Kahina

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Eric Holder

I don't have any intention of resigning.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Ed Abner

Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Kevin Hayashi

I haven't played that well in that tournament. And other times, others have played well. It's one I'd really like to win because it's the only 72-hole tournament we have.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Steve McCausland

It's unclear why the two others didn't jump.

Heather Dougherty

Then, once someone dangled it, others had to ante up.

Steve Johnson

You don't feel superior until you tell others about it.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Richard Dawkins

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,

Vladimir Putin

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

Voltaire

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

Robert Jordan

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Willie Nelson

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Jorja Fox

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

John Green

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

Julia Quinn

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Julian Assange

I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

Richelle Mead

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

Umberto Eco

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Samuel Johnson

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Samuel Richardson

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Robert MacNeil

I never wanted to be a pundit.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

Jeanette Winterson

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Carly Fiorina

All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.

Daniel Okrent

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Freddie Ljungberg

I think we can upset some of the big teams,

William Hazlitt

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Abraham Nunez

I like (the boos) because it makes you want to do something good.

Moliere

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Pietro Aretino

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Eileen collins

I've been in your shoes many times so I understand.

Judy Pardonnet

I don't think it's anything specific to this area, but it's still under investigation.

Christine Baranski

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

Mahatma Gandhi

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Lily Collins

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome!

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Pearl Cleage

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

John Dingell

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Dennis Prager

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Richard Baxter

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

W. L. George

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Wilkie Collins

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Kenneth Clark

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Frederick the Great

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!