Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Smith

People should be allowed to work. People should be allowed to eat.

Phil Dawson

People take for granted the skill involved in holding the football. Kyle's doing a great job, but it took us a series of weeks to develop that chemistry. We're still working on it. How many receivers drop the ball? Holders are never allowed to drop it.

Stella Young

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

Rosemary Hollis

Originally they thought this was yet another instance of them being put on the spot to prove how reformed they can be, how transparent they can be, how democratic they can be before they are even allowed to consider talking peace,

Joe Durkin

Officer Lamb's training and experience allowed him to react without hesitation, and possibly saved the lives of his fellow officers.

Tanith Belbin

The moment we saw the flag rising, we hadn't allowed ourselves to imagine. We didn't want to create a dream that we couldn't attain because it might be out of our control.

Tanith Belbin

The moment we saw the flag rising was one we hadn't allowed ourselves to even imagine because we didn't want to create a dream we couldn't obtain for reasons outside of our control. It was definitely a new sight for us to see and one we don't even know how we're going to react to when it comes to us.

Susan Walsh

During the Clinton Administration, we were always allowed to that event. The Bush Administration never has allowed it.

Marcus Aurelius

Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Charles Langley

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

Larry Brown

Two cents really isn't a big deal, it's the principle of it.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Tom Aldrich

The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Charles Langley

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

William Lerach

Why should investors sit passively by and take a couple of cents on a the dollar. This is an extraordinarily powerful tactical weapon.

John Felmy

We can't speak for each of the 170,000 gasoline stations nationwide, ... But it's clear that gasoline prices are up 29 cents a gallon because crude oil prices are up about 29 cents a gallon during the same period.

Melanie Krauthoff

As long as you don't have a high fever or trouble breathing, you can exercise when you are sick.

Baruch Spinoza

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

Art Linkletter

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

Ayn Rand

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Boyd Rice

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

Jane Fonda

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

Jane Fonda

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

Jane Fonda

A big mirror to exercise in front of is essential.

Jane Fonda

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

Pope John

As a man of peace, we pray to St. Joseph for those threatened by war and we invoke the precious gift of harmony upon the whole human family.

Matisyahu

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Mike Waldo

Spencer is a very gifted player who works very hard at what he does. I thought he played smart, played with a lot of intensity and had a great game.

Cato Elder

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Author unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift that is why it is called the present

John Ruskin

Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Norm Cook

This year, he's done an unbelievable job. He's just one of these gifted goal-scorers. He's got a great scoring touch.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Ian Wright

It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that.

Jeff Parker

I've been on the kids since Day One about playing hard and never giving up when you're down,

Billy Donovan

The whole thing with them is, if they pull up on jump shots in the lane, they take runners in the lane, and we are giving two, we are going to live with that. But we were not living with threes.

Robert Kirkman

The X-Men have just been through a lot. It's pretty much been non-stop since the beginning, really. So I'm giving them the night off.

Brian Griese

This is a sad, sad day for me, ... Sean Mahan got me. I'm a man of my word, though. I'm going to take it like a man. This thing is already giving me a headache, though.

Thomas Mitchell

The way you get (approval) is you demonstrate to the public that you are giving a quality product, which is what Medicaid is supposed to be,

Travis Lee

That's not like me. I want to be more selective, instead of giving away some at-bats.

Rep. Simrill

You're just taking it from the smokers and giving it to the eaters.

Brad Garrett

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

Celia Rivenbark

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Demetri Martin

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Conor McGregor

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,

William Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Steve Oestreicher

Now it's in the hands of the Legislature. We're going to see what they're going to do with it.

Jim Edmonds

Sometimes you have to throw your hands up.

Gerald Lucas

Pressure from bunds is working its way into the Treasury market. Bunds and Treasuries are moving hand in hand.

John Taylor

President Nixon never lifted his hand to Mrs. Nixon,

John Adshead

I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.

Denise Neel

It was very exciting. It was tense. We knew we did well. But we knew it was in the judges hands so all we could do was sit and wait.

Brock Farrel

I should have had two hands on the ball, and I didn't.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Brad Hawpe

I shook his hand and thanked him for keeping us from suffering the ultimate.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Tom Lochner

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Nita Lowey

are not penalized at the workplace for the help they provide.

Andruw Jones

A record's a record. When you're done playing, those records can stand. Right now, I'm going out there and playing to help my team win. I'm not worrying about any records.

Fred Williams

Anything we can get is a help to get people out of the noise area.

Stuart Freeman

Anything that makes investors feel comfortable with the inflation level and the way short-term interest rates are going is going to help the market.

Ed Andes

The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it slowed them down to help us score a lot more.

Royal Bank

The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the interest-rate side and growth. These will help the baht.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

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.

Steve Sanders

Some people don't see that I have different struggles on and off the field, ... It made me want to become a better man than I was.

Candace Bushnell

One has to be open-minded when the right man comes along. And I know it's freaky, but this just seems like the natural thing to do.

Marcus Antonius

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

John Bunyan

So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow.

David Robinson

Some people talked about Tim like a dog. The way that man has performed over the years, I don't understand that.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Hebrew Proverb

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

Philip Levine

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Barry Sanders

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Bessie Smith

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters. So that is my top priority,

Joseph Estrada

The victims here are the poor people, the squatters, ... So that is my top priority.

Donald E. Graham

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Jules Shear

Erskine Caldwell was a Southern writer, Tobacco Road is really good, but it can get you a little depressed. It's about poor folks.

Jay Wright

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Robert Schenck

It was tough today because I had to power through my throws. I was only able to glide through on one.

Mike Mower

This is a power grab, pure and simple.

Ben Okri

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...

Baha'u'llah

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Benjamin Disraeli

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

and City

Don't you want to stand still with me?

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Stephen King

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

George Black

He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.

Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Karen McCrary

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

Grenville Kleiser

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Horace

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...

H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.