Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Hall

What we don't want to do is turn the forum into a debate.

Tom McClintock

He offered a perspective to the debate that will be missed, ... But his decision to withdraw intensifies my resolve to stay and fight." ()

H. Hart

It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news.

Rep. Baxley

I think we were very successful in raising the debate. I don't think we were successful in resolving it.

Dan Kelly

I think what we are going to lose out on is full and fair debate over the issues.

Paul Lopez

It gives the debate a megaphone, it gives the march a megaphone.

Luis Macas

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Mark Ferrulo

It is not a policy debate that's being shoved in our faces right now.

Dan Fee

We look forward to having a debate about past experience and ideas for the future.

Carolyn Sczepanski

People who haven't experienced Special Olympics before don't know what kids who are disabled can do. They just get out there and they have such a great time. It's so great to see the smiles on their faces. Being out there makes them feel so free.

Aimee Mullins

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking for a reaction in the second half and I got it.

John Wardle

Kevin has got one and a half seasons to go so we are not silly enough to sit back and say that we are not going to do anything.

Franz Humer

I would say that we would see an acceleration (in drug sales), especially in the second half of the year, with the introduction of new products, with the acceleration also of the penetration of the oncology line in the non-U.S. markets,

Kevin Mench

He said he'd never seen 'turf toe' in the second toe. He said, 'Your shoes are a half size too small.

Mike Myers

We've been trying to price things at roughly half the market value.

Mike Chere

We thought we had some momentum going to start the second half (back to a 10-point deficit), but they kept hitting their shots.

Jeff Simpson

I thought the rebounding in the first half hurt us. We got one shot and they had second and third opportunities.

Bill Gibbons

I thought that run in the second half that Maine made was the key - where they really rebounded it and went out on the break.

Carolyn Peck

We made some adjustments at halftime and our team really picked up the intensity.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Peggy Hosek

Having won a state championship already this year helps a lot. They all have a familiarity with the stage and the pressure. A lot of them love the pressure.

Kevin Donovan

Pick up the phone and make the call, ... You may have the one piece of information that helps us solve this case.

Lindsey Jacobellis

I had been having trouble with that jump all day. (Grabbing the board) helps you stabilize in the air. I tried but it didn't work.

Elena Dementieva

I like to play first, it helps me with my preparation.

Antwaan Randle

It helps you get your mind on football.

Ben Curtis

it helps with school and living in New York.

Rosemary Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Larry Sabato

He could have made millions in the private sector.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Beau Greely

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.

Notting Hill

Bernie: I'm sorry I am so late. Bollocksed up at work again, I fear. Millions down the drain.

John H. Reagan

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

Zhu Rongji

At this occasion of reunion for millions of families, we miss our Taiwan compatriots more than ever,

Albert Brooks

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Ian Livingstone

We have spent tens of millions of pounds on it and we will spend more tens of millions of pounds.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Battaglia

If the price of the stock drops, you could owe more in taxes than the value of the stock.

George Parks

I owe this all to Mr. Harris; he's the man. If it weren't for him I wouldn't be here.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Ryne Sandberg

We here today owe America's pastime a strict policy.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Mohammed Kamal

For the first time, a president will owe his power to the people.

Rich Miller

We owe Pawtucket something. They played us very tough.

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Nelson Mandela

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Milton Friedman

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Carl Jung

Didn't I promise I'd always look after you and keep you from harm?

William Carey

The future is as bright as the promise of God.

Rick Yancey

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

Tony Snow

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

Zig Ziglar

When you make a promise, keep it.

James F. Byrnes

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

John Bevere

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

Eric Hoffer

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

John Maynard Keynes

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

William Whewell

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Will Wright

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Wayne Dyer

Every obstacle is a test.

Rod Lurie

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Barbara Ehrenreich

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Leila Aboulela

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

John F. Kennedy

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lord Chesterfield

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Jaime Contreras

Some days, work is truly a four-letter word.

Shaukat Aziz

This truly encapsulates China's world view in this century,

Jonathan Todd

We think he will be a truly independent adviser.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Will Cuppy

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

Samuel Richardson

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Josh Billings

Young widows still bide their time.

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.