Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Dye

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines and quarries scattered across the American landscape, and some are more visible than others.

H. Hunt

There are so many stray and abandoned cats,

Bill Clinton

We told you this would happen if the Democrats abandoned their faith.

Britt Beemer

I think at least a third of consumers that previously bought her products will abandon the brand. A number higher than that means the brand is dead.

Martin Rees

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

Larry Silverstein

It is inexcusable that the Port Authority abruptly abandoned the talks (Tuesday) night without a plan to move forward. We are not sure where this leaves us now.

Charles de Secondat

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Javier Solana

I welcome the commitment by North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and to return at an early date to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and to IAEA safeguards,

Jeffrey Brown

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Jeff Banks

It almost got away from us. But we didn't give up just because we were behind. That's the best part.

Alex Rodriguez

It almost feels like we're in their shoes.

Mark Sweeney

He can throw a good one. He almost took my head off today. I didn't know where it was going. But in a game? He'd get killed. It's one thing to play catch. It's another thing to pitch.

Kevan Barlow

He is the kind of guy who goes out there and gives it his all, week in and week out. And he did show that today. He is a great player and almost any team would like to have him.

Daniel Buyten

He is so good, so top, it's almost unbelievable. He's at the start of a great career, I'm certain of that.

Marc Ganis

He is one of the greatest labor leaders around. The players are almost 60% partners without putting up any capital at all. Every union should have it so good.

Jill Taylor

I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise.

Samuel Beckett

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Jim Irsay

It was a good compromise. We're happy with it 30-2 is a good vote.

Eva LaRue

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Naturi Naughton

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

Julianne Moore

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

John Hume

This is about principled compromise, not compromised principles.

Benon Sevan

for a political compromise made to help the economies of American allies.

Bill Lawrence

Other countries don't compromise their principles for other people. We should not compromise.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

Vince Lombardi

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Jim Rash

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Jorge Luis Borges

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

Mark Warner

The idea that the governor can't set a policy for state employees that the majority of legislators themselves have embraced makes no sense.

Bruce Harrison

This is all about getting Toyota out there in front of the NASCAR fan, and that fan tends to be more of a blue-collar consumer. And if these people start to embrace Toyota, it's going to spell big trouble for General Motors and Ford.

James Cook

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

Charlie Kaufman

These things are important to me, these things I write. I recognize and embrace the notion of collaboration - and other people should, too.

Peter Beck

It shows at least on the surface that the North would like to embrace China's reforms.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Dawn Staley

GW did have a run in them, and we expected that. We were up by eight, and then a minute and a half later, it was gone.

Susanna Moore

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Jim Calhoun

He?s having the type of season we all expected him to have last year.

Douglas Muzzio

His withdrawal from the race was totally typical of the campaign. He was outside the box. Nobody expected this.

Mike Piazza

I think it's important for the teams that aren't expected to be competitive to be competitive for the good of the sport. For players of Italian descent, it's a small sort of way of thanking Italy for our forefathers and mothers.

Sheldon Brown

I think a lot of the leaders here were young guys and we expected management to handle the situation, that they'd explain what the rules and regulations were. That didn't happen.

Mark Landy

I think a lot of folks had not expected them to be back this quickly.

Charles Schumer

The problem is that we are involved, not in an head-on head war, which was the first three weeks, but rather in a guerrilla war.

James Thurber

I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

Oscar Lua

I think it was inevitable. The kickoff team is struggling a bit, so they need some sort of leadership out there.

Abbott L. Lowell

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Sean Collins

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Adam Rayner

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

Joseph Cook

None of them had anything new to say,

Daniel Johnston

None of the alternatives, ... are even close.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Cristiana Salvi

Twelve (people) are still in hospital, but none of them are in severe condition.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Gary Gaetti

He's got some serious power. I'm talking big power.

Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

J. J. Johnson

He had the power to amend the survivor's trust. He had the power to appoint the descendant's trust.

Oliver Hoyte

He has so many different running styles. On one play he's running like a scat back. On one play he's running like a power back. He's a versatile back.

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Troy Polamalu

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.