Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Vajira Premawardhana

The talks are very important for the market because the economic development of the country depends on the outcome. If the country is dragged into a war it's going to be a real problem for us.

Kim Yuna

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

Anthony Chan

The terrible, devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, when we see those things on TV, we know we don't feel as good about our country or even about ourselves.

Mark Elliot

The thing with cross country is that it is your top five that determine how you finish in a meet. We finished seventh, which is not where we'd like to be, but overall we were pretty good.

Nicholas Sparks

I've made numerous speeches for Alzheimers associations around the country for eight years now.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

Ralph Stanley

I've always called my music old time mountain music or old time country music. I've never really called my music bluegrass.

Brett Ratner

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Brandon Lee

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Ben Parr

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Barbara Lee

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Bashar al-Assad

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Barbara Sher

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Kenneth Blackwell

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.