Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Friedman

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

Ziggy Marley

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Ron Reagan

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Bob Schieffer

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Wu Yonggang

The PBOC is very prudent about making any more changes to the interest rate. It is nearly impossible to reduce the rate when it already stands at such low a level.

Rick Warren

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

Nathan Ford

With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

Gary Rogers

The (50th anniversary) celebration is a good way to understand the changes within the borough.

Elizabeth Selvin

The association of ED with cardiovascular risk factors may be a powerful motivator for men for whom diet and lifestyle changes are indicated.

Chipper Jones

That was him being less stubborn and making some changes he needed to make at the plate.

Andrei Lankov

The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in any meaningful sense, there was just a disintegration of the state.

Hani Durzy

We have always had a policy that if it's illegal to do off eBay, it's illegal to do on eBay, ... We have made some changes and additions to our existing stun gun policy. We want to continue to keep people from doing illegal things on eBay.

Tom Young

We have some very good streaks. But we don't have the self-confidence to get ourselves past when things start to go bad. When they start to go bad, they seem to go worse. Right now, that's a big hurdle for us, to stop flows from occurring.

John Mackey

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

George Eliot

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience

Cynthia Ozick

I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway,

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Jorge Gonzalez

Volume has recovered but it's still not that high, we still don't see a lot of foreign flows or institutional funds pouring into the market.

Charles Manson

My relationship to music is completely subliminal, it just flows through me.

Robert Parker

There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

C. S. Lewis

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

C. S. Lewis

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Peter Aengst

That would have set a new precedent. We've overemphasized historically the lawsuit tool.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have to obey the laws with respect to security classifications,

Rick Hind

Usually the laws are relatively weak and have been written by lobbyists for the industry.

William Shakespeare

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Robert Wagner

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

Adrian Peterson

I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

Howard Schnellenberger

His stock went up with the rushing yardage he gained.

Camilla Luddington

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Alan Watts

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Ed Begley, Jr.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Justin Jeffre

We're going to take our time and do what we feel is right. We're not rushing anything.

Brooke Langton

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

Jonathan Cain

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Juanita Longwell

I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.

Charles Braun

It's unique in that it is around a stream and trees.

Christian Cooke

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

Shonda Rhimes

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Clay Fitch

We just couldn't get anything going in the third. We had the same kind of shots, but all of a sudden they weren't going down.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Harry Hamlin

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

Dan Gorrell

I don't think Americans are telling us all of a sudden they want small. They are telling us they want more affordable.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Dick Cavett

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.