Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Emma Watson

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Xun Zi

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ruth Luban

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

Chris Oynes

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Richard Lamm

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

Deborah White

The approaching hurricane season reminds us of the utter devastation that Hurricane Ivan caused when it hit the Louisiana coast last year.

Yuri Urbanovich

The antiterrorist operation was poorly coordinated, and the question remains open whether many of the deaths were caused by Russian forces' use of indiscriminate weapons such as tank cannons and flame-throwers.

Nancy Anderson

That was incredibly misleading to our consumers, and it caused them to be alarmed about things they shouldn't be alarmed about.

Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Ian Mckellen

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

William Jay

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is

Billy Graham

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

Bikram Choudhury

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Nayvadius Cash

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

C. S. Lewis

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Antony Sher

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

William Shakespeare

Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.

Channing Tatum

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

Brett Eldredge

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Shane Jabaar

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Michael Cole

Yeah, they're good. It will be another challenge. But if we play well, we can overcome it.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Manmohan Singh

If we work together, we can overcome these problems,

Kazeronnie Mak

Nothing is difficult, if one can overcome with it !

Juergen Klinsmann

This team is strong enough to overcome such setbacks. It's stable enough to put it behind. With positive thinking, there will be no problems. We have to look ahead.

Vinny Nip

This team is different from the teams in the past because we've had to overcome a lot more. This was a rough road.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

John Harrison

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Jeff Parker

It was very satisfying to see, ... but disappointing not to be part of it.

Chad Hurley

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Jonathan Tropper

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Bob Lutz

That was a tough one for them to lose.

Paul Mainieri

That was a tough decision, but I think I would have done the same thing.

Dan Snyder

That was a tough day. We had ups and downs, but we worked it out.

Phillip Fulmer

We have a lot of work to do when we go back home.  It's a tough loss, but it's not the end of the season.

Tommy Lee

We need to regroup. It's been a tough road.

Jim Beattie

I think it would be very tough for him to come back in an Oriole uniform.

LeBron James

I thought I was in the right position. It was a tough call.

Tyler Arnason

We've talked, and we've come to the understanding that he wants more from me. It's been a tough year on all of us.

Flip Saunders

We made him take a lot of tough shots.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Tony DeFrancesco

You just can't go out there and walk 12 guys. That is not the way to win.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,