Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

Ian Mckellen

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

Wen Jiabao

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

David Rabe

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

Chris Colfer

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

Alice Walker

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Richard Daley

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

David Beckham

Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

Jim Tracy

I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,

Des Browne

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Sebastian Faulks

I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine.

Peter Zumthor

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Singer

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Steve Shannon

Use the Internet to read press releases and other information about the company so that you can take at least three pieces of positive information about them into the interview. You can integrate that information into some of your answers, and it will prepare you to respond well if the interviewer asks what you know about the company.

Bruce Simon

When the court asks to know just how rich pilots can get, her impartiality can be questioned.

Earl Calloway

We need to push the tempo, get it inside, play hard on defense, and do what coach asks us to do. We have to play good defense first. Defense wins championships and offense wins games.

Michel Gauthier

We intend to support the government if what it asks us to do respects our basic principles and the interests of Quebec. If the government respects those conditions, we will try to let it function for a good while.