Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banzhaf

A small number of them bear a large part of the responsibility. They are vulnerable to legal action, and if we can change them, we can finally make a dent in the problem of obesity.

Guru Nanak

A son whom a damsel secretly bears in the house of her father, one shall name the son of an unmarried damsel and declare such offspring of an unmarried girl ,to belong to him who weds her ,afterwards .

John Warner

As one senator, I'm very proud that differences have been reconciled and that this resolution bears both of your distinguished names.

Bruce Nudell

Really, Abbott is bearing the brunt of this.

David Bowers

Reading between the lines, fund managers are bracing themselves for a bear flattening of global yield curves.

Brian McDonough

Promises are only as good as the giant teddy bears they are built upon.

Melissa Kleinman

People can bear witness to the personal experiences of victims.

Clayton Christensen

People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

Socrates

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

Iman Iman

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you,

Adam Garcia

As far as I can conceive, he didn't care. He wanted people to get his ideas, to change the world and make it beautiful. Sadly, he was more famous for being the most beautiful dancer and jumping really high.

Jenson Button

As for beautiful women, I think there are many,...

Letitia Landon

As beautiful as woman's blush, - / As evanescent too.

Ana Ivanovic

As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.

Alan Goodheart

The cables that hold up (the Brooklyn Bridge) on big stone piers are beautiful and not hidden. It's metal in your face ? taking traditional material and putting it to use in a way that you can see what it can do.

Gary Gambardella

The bridge was destroyed. These six young men took it upon themselves to take a beautiful Bucks County bridge and turn into ashes.

Bible Bible

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Mark Twain

A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line

Ed Dunlop

As for the future hopefully he will carry on but today is the day, let's live it up.

Scott Jordan

As people carry multiple gadgets, you're going to see more clothing makers thinking about how to serve that market. There's more consciousness now about what people are carrying, as well as what they're wearing.

Pat Bowlin

Our defense is really coming on. That's going to carry us in the playoffs.

Safaa Ibrahim

People are using (Islam) to carry out some of the frustrations that they have. But this is not just about the defamation of Muhammad. Each Muslim is feeling like it's saying 'You're a terrorist. ...' So you're defaming my character as well.

Thomas Carter

On top of winning, it's pretty exciting to be in the middle of the points chase this early in the season. We just hope to stay consistent and carry this momentum into Grand Bend.

Pete Asadourian

Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since December 1.

Glenn Thomas

The thing people need to realize is that there is a carry over from year to year in utility money. This year there is a carry over of more than $1.5 million.

Bob Freschi

The older guys are going to carry this team. They don't give me much drama. We'll see if it translates to wins and losses.

Juan Somavia

No worker should be imprisoned or penalized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities,

Reid Scott

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Ken Keyes

Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.

John Oxenham

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Buddha

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Smiley Blanton

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

William Williams

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

George McDonald

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mother Teresa

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?

St. John

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Bhagavad Gita

Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.

Richard Ford

Dear Dick, you will be missed. You served our nation with distinction and honor, ... You have left a positive mark on our government.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others

Patrick Buchanan

Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime.

John Milton

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, / What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

Jacques Rogge

Dear Organizing Committee, friends and partners, you have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games. We say a heartfelt thank you to Italy, Piedmont and Turin.

Dirceu Ferreira

Dear Mr. Webster: I have no words to thank you for your dictionary.

Al Franken

Dear Mr. Franken, It's possible that I was mistaken about this. Cheers.

Patty Fox

Dear Ingrid Bergman, she actually wore the same dress twice and it was something.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Jeffrey Benjamin

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.

Pat Lester

This group is such a wonderful, friendly group. We're very nurturing of each other.

Albert Einstein

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

T. E. Lawrence

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Rashida Jones

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

Rick Riordan

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

Rick Riordan

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Rush Limbaugh

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Raymond Bachand

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Terri Swaney

For some reason the soccer gods were not with us today.

William Shakespeare

I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul.

Rod Parsley

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

William Ames

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.

Michael Redd

This says a lot about this team. We've been up and down all year. The gods are with us.

Thomas a Kempis

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

Joyce Meyer

If you will do what you CAN do, God will do what you CANNOT do.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

Michael Chambers

This grant is another validation of our technology,

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Chris Boone

We will also pursue grants to help pay the cost.

Tim Kaine

I am not taking anything for granted.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Gene Kelly

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Albert Einstein

From discord, find Harmony.

Anatoly Karpov

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Plato

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

John Dryden

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

Turkish Proverb

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

English 16th Century Proverbs

A young man married is a young man marred.

Fred Byrd

Back then, if a man could walk, he would go into service.

Robert Gottlieb

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

Terry McAuliffe

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

Everett Dirksen

An old man once taught me what a million is. He said, look at your watch, and watch the second hand. You can see it every second, every minute, every day, every night, every week, every month, every year - and in 3 years it would go around 1,000,000 times.

Harold Kushner

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.

Marcel Proust

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Barton Gellman

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Alyson Stoner

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

Donald Ray Pollock

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

Tom Ridge

Ohioans know that he inherited a mess and created a surplus. So, on election day, John [Kasich] will prevail in Ohio.

Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

Michael Feinstein

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

David Rose

But that many flights, ... oh yeah, we're going to feel it for sure.

Curt Dobbs

Oh yeah. We got back to reality real quick.

Daniel Cabrera

Oh yeah, just muscles, ... It hurt, but I'm okay.

Al Horford

Oh yeah. If you forget, they make you run for those.

Robbie Kay

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

Dr. Seuss

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

Anne Sexton

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

Spider Robinson

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

Robert Burns

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Michael E. Mann

We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Patricia Briggs

Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Johnny Depp

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

John Sununu

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Augustine Birrell

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

C. S. Lewis

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Bryant H. McGill

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.