Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Gary Kellough

It can happen quick. That was a play where we thought there should have been a foul on our end, but it ended up (later) being a foul on us. It's not that we're playing that bad, but it's the little things that are making a big difference.

Bronson Arroyo

It always ended up, 'Oh, he'll be back,'

Gary Powers

He did more than he needed to do. He did the job because nobody could do the job (on Saturday). Unfortunately, he just gave up that key walk in the ninth that ended up being the winning run.

Dan Hendricks

He just seems better than ever now. I didn't plan for the Derby. I planned for the end of (last) year to have a fresh 2-year-old, and I think it ended up a good plan. I have a lightly raced 3-year-old ready to go.

Dave Witzig

He is the missing ingredient for that team. He really got hot in the third quarter and ended up with a great game.

Jim Moriarty

This was a good win. Our goal was to win and even our season record at 10-10. We ended the season .500. A lot of people said we couldn't do it and we did it. We got the last three games and we did it.

Monica Johnson

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

Corey Held

Here I thought we were in good shape because Tyson's my ace. I ended up starting (Matt) Wagner and he had a great game, but he just got tired (in the sixth).

Jon Sundvold

It could have ended in one day if Mike Alden had said here's what happened, why it happened and what he could have done differently.

Keith Henson

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

Phil Anderson

Knowing we can go out on the road and play in a hostile environment like this and play to the end ... a game like this has to help us. We've played well on the road, and we'll be at home Thursday, which is good, but if we get by Maize, we'll have to go on the road and play a competitive team.

Anthony Bailey

Kids need to find something in this area, ... My goal is to give some of these kids a safe environment to go to. There's gong to be no pressure here.

Eugene Peroni

Just the fact that the market has been able to hold in a trading range in this environment is bullish.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

Cecilia Rodhe

He likes to share his energy. That has always been his way of communicating. He's in a very protected environment with the team, but his personality comes through.

Ron Washington

He is trying to make an investment in our community. We need to make an investment in him and provide a safe environment for him.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Sierra McCormick

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

John Fisher

I was like, 'You're kidding me. How could I be leading, not peddling a good portion of the course?'

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Shacoi Berry

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Robert Crandall

I was looking for somebody who could operate effectively and had good personal chemistry.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Brandon Perkins

I was in the right place at the right time. The other side did a good job of containing, and (the quarterback) couldn't go anywhere. I just had to go get him.

Ben Sheets

I was in pretty good shape. I don't know how you could prevent it. It seems like it could happen at any time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Sarah Silverman

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

Richard Pryor

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Vivienne Westwood

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Voltaire

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Will Grace

Jack-This makes me feel like a man. Will-Yeah. Jack- No, seriously, I'm going to need a man after we're done.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Kevin Lowe

I would stake my reputation on that man because I know him, and I know he hasn't done anything wrong.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

Mike Gruber

He was a callow young man, not physical. Kind of the opposite of what he is now.

Peter Hobson

He didn't whimper, he didn't cry, he didn't beg. He took it like a man.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Rick Berry

He is the president. We have to respect the office. But I don't respect the man.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Tryon Edwards

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

William Ellery Channing

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Richard Dawkins

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Vladimir Lenin

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Walter Cronkite

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

Voltaire

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Samuel Johnson

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

William Hazlitt

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Janet Fitch

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

David Small

I think it's a generational thing. It's time for a change.

James Hughes

I think it's about time we do something about it.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Louis Agassiz

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Dodie Smith

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...

Michael Caine

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

Homer

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Josh Kornbluth

How do you think I'm doing? ... Wandering Josh.