Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Gwen Moore

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

John Vinocur

The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

Marshall Bloom

We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.

Joe Paterno

We have to understand that if you are going to be really good, you can't make some little mistakes. When (quarterback) Michael Robinson got sacked and fumbled the ball (last Saturday against South Florida) without knowing there was a backside guy coming, we had a terrible job done by someone.

David Boothe

We just didn't show up for last week's game against Joshua Springs. I told our kids that they (Excelsior) would come out and hit you hard because they have some good players, and you'll have to execute our game plan better than you did last week. The other teams are looking for that opportunity to beat us and have that second-place playoff spot, and we really need to step it up.

Mike Fratello

We just didn't rebound the ball for the whole series, but that's not even fair to say because we were terrible all year. It is what it is. We just don't rebound. Up against that team, the size they have and the way they go after the ball, the truth comes out.

Jim Shannon

We just didn't hit any shots tonight, we shot very poorly against their zone and we had no inside presence.

Gary Kendall

We just didn't go after it in extra innings but they did. To their credit, they've got a pretty good bullpen and they did a good job against our bats in extra innings.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Tom Ventura

The 2-year-old market is now a force. I am real confident going in that we have a good group of horses to continue that trend.

Kevin Rohrich

We have two stellar big guys and we are very confident going to either one of them. They did a great job of positioning low, getting good shots and they also did a great job on defense. When they come ready to play, they are tough.

Ed Smith

We just didn't come out and played focused tonight. We won't win a state title if we play like this. But I'm confident that we will play better.

Paul Bremer

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Ross Vecchio

We'll really miss Ryan. He has been a part of the Wild Things' family since the first year. We'll miss his enthusiasm and his many talents, but we know this is a good move for him. I'm sure he'll do well as the head coach, and I'm confident this will lead to even better things for Ryan.

Rob Oertel

We have the talent. I feel very confident that it could happen.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Evangeline Lilly

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

Chuck Schumer

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

C. S. Lewis

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Catullus

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

Catullus

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

Catullus

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Cecelia Ahern

A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.

Cecelia Ahern

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.

Noam Chomsky

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Bob Davis

I think Seattle is going to become a laughingstock. ... We are going to look like the Moral Majority up here,

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Jim Owen

I would say the majority of those are opposed at this point in time,

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Rajneesh

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Suzanne Vega

He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing,

Billy Connolly

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Brad Williams

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

Toby Shook

Obviously, the tactics offended some people and he quit doing it after that.

Noam Chomsky

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Chris Hardwick

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

David A. Bednar

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

Muhammad Ali

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Daniel Healy

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

Krishna Sitaula

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Karen Hughes

is something that's widely supported in the region.

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,

Doug Wilson

He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Nick Hardwick

He is just crisp out there. He is totally in control.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Carrie Fisher

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Alan Shepard

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.