Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Showalter

I think we're in pretty good shape catching-wise in the organization. Sandy has done as good or better than we could have hoped for. Rod is having a solid year. It creates a lot of good options for us.

David Allen

Remember, you're the one who creates speed, because you're the one who allows stuff to enter your life.

Alan Feldman

If you are standing next to someone who's smoking, I'm not sure there's something specific that exists to prevent you from inhaling the smoke just like I'm not sure if there's anything that can prevent you from inhaling smoke when you walk outside. Having large-scale infiltration systems creates a much healthier environment for everybody.

Mike Birbiglia

I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far away from themselves, because they're metaphorical. It creates more opportunities, I think.

Dick LeBeau

In his unique way, I think he creates not any better than those guys but in a different manner.

Keith Tucker

The fans were great tonight, ... It creates a fantastic atmosphere. They were really excited to have strong support tonight and it showed in their play.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Theodore Zeldin

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Jim Donahue

The law creates a means test, ... it remains as it has always has been.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Frank Baumholtz

Kaiser has played pretty well this year; they have great potential.

Rebecca West

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Woody Allen

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Will Ferrell

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Richard Pryor

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Walter Bagehot

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Robert Southey

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

William Gilmore Simms

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Mark Twain

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Judith Martin

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Arthur Golden

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Robert C. Solomon

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.