Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

E. Housman

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Kwabena Boahen

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.

Roilo Golez

We realize that at the end of the day the majority can railroad this and use brute force, use the tyranny of numbers,

Michael Chertoff

We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,

Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Abel Korzeniowski

Exterminate all the brutes!

Bible Bible

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Michael Chertoff

We need more than brute enforcement, ... We need a temporary worker program as well.

Jaime Ray Newman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Michael Keaton

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

Al Jourgensen

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Frank Tyger

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

Maurice Cheeks

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

Patrice Servelle

He told us he was envious of us, that he missed it and would like to be with us. That he was with us in spirit, but would have liked to have been in the sled with us.

Johnny Depp

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.

Wendell Mayes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

Nicolas Boileau

Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.

Campbell Scott

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

Pope XVI

We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Robert Herrick

And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head

Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

J. Taylor

We have a major problem with being lied to.

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Oliver North

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

P. J. Harvey

You lied to me in your deposition didn't you Mr. Buckingham?

Marcus Williams

We can't get bigheaded. We can't just think every team is going to lie down after we get a big victory. We were thinking Syracuse was going to lie down after those first 30 minutes and they actually crawled back to get within two possessions. You can't do that.

Rob Kardashian

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Hunter Tylo

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.

Helen Gahagan

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Joe Jurevicius

This stadium has got to be the loudest I've ever played in. But that's not to say it's loud enough; next week it's got to be louder.

Ken Lucas

I think it's the loudest stadium in the NFL. They truly have a 12th man.

Lord Byron

The loudest wit I e'er was deafened with.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

David Tronson

Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

Casey Kasem

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Curtis Myles

If they come to the station and try the system, I think we've got a customer.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Afrojack

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Dave Huber

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Dustin Lynch

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

Tom Price

I think Jaguar can turn it around, but right now it's tough. If I had only a Jaguar store, it would be very, very tough.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.