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.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

David Gergen

I was in the Nixon White House during Watergate, and we pretended that we were all about business as usual. And we had a president who was talking to the portraits. It was not business as usual, but you have to say it.

Jack Osbourne

I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

Wayne Taylor

Kevin had so many friends. Businesses and individuals have really stepped up to the plate for this project.

Alan Lacy

Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His departure is not related to business performance and does not constitute a change in credit strategy.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart said it closed its worst performing stores because it couldn't maintain inventory once its vendors cut themselves off. Now that the stores are shuttered and inventory is up, Kmart is still doing less business than before. The company is still losing money and market share. I'm not sure the company can get past Christmas.

Gerry Harvey

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

Carl Peterson

I wouldn't be opposed to that. I think it's a terrific 1-2 punch. This business is a business of attrition.

Harry Pachon

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Ernie Accorsi

He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today. Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.

Bob Schindler

He's going to live with this a lot longer than we will. That's his conscience, and his girlfriend's conscience.

Mike Holt

I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.

Dennis Haysbert

I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and it was a mistake to take that voice away. Of course, as an actor, I'm happy that I can now work with Mamet.

Debbie Stabenow

I think what we see is a conscience vote on all sides and people of good will making their own decisions,

John Walsh

I think that we must look at the situation and say: 'Are we respecting a person's conscience?'

Bob Inglis

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends. He has no fear.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Morris Gleitzman

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.

Steve Irwin

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Suzy Kassem

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

Marcia Danchise

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

Janet Reno

Law enforcement authorities have told us they need a nationwide method to gather and review these types of Internet-related complaints,

Jean Paul

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Pat Riley

I'd like to secure what we've had all season, which is the number two spot (in the playoffs). We have to gather ourselves and get back on track.

Ron Reagan

We can gather without posting notice. Of course, we are always open if members of the public want to join us.

Michael Redman

If you take too much time looking for things or gathering stuff you may not make it in time.

Antonin Scalia

I gather they don't know where it is,

Judi Hensley

In the 22 years I've been here, it will be the largest gathering (of faculty) in regalia that we've had here on campus. I think it shows their support.

Christa Miller

I love Goody's Spin Pins. They're super cheap and look like corkscrews. You just gather your hair and screw them into a bun.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Ndamukong Suh

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Paul Murphy

Keith has grown his operation quite a bit.

Albert Einstein

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Annie Basic

Kathlyn was the heart and soul of this team. We're disappointed in not winning, but not disappointed in what we did.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Queen Elizabeth II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Robert Richardson

Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

James Billups

He said he stabbed him in the heart,

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Edward Furlong

I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Susan Hill

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

The Archives

know how to show you that they love you.

Farley Flex

Just the energypeople love you man, that's straight up.

Jen Kirkman

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

Dick Schaap

I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

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.

Mario Chalmers

I think that's good. A lot of people on the team now really didn't play on that team, so it's not on our minds right now. We're not even thinking about that game.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Winston Churchill

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Mike Jarvis

I really think Omar, like so many of these kids, they already have an idea in their minds of when they're going to be ready. Regardless of what happens, that's what they're going to do.

Steve Tuen

The mindset has shifted from one of wild optimism to that of conservatism. The party is over and people are starting to sober up.

William Shakespeare

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

Mary Aronson

All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.

James Gottfurcht

These people have some sense in their minds of the steps they're going to take in life. Somewhere, they're programming.

John Mendoza

It's probably in many peoples' minds well overdue.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

Richard Powers

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

Richard Rogers

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Samuel Hahnemann

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Sarah Dessen

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Jodi Olson

Kirby was very, very happy. He was very happy. Not a day went by that he didn't have a smile on his face.

Jim Lucas

There are so many smiles, ... It?s just like, ?Wow.?

Raul Rodriguez

I thought we had it. I had a smile from ear-to-ear. It was awesome.

Anthony Randolph

He had a smile that would warm your heart. He had a twinkle in his eyes.

Russell Baker

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Tyler Florence

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

Trisha Goddard

I am a smiling depressive.

Raymond Chandler

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

William Shakespeare

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Greg Page

It is a collaborative effort. After 15 years of being together, we know what each other's strengths are and who should write what song.

Ray Johnson

I think a strength of our team is that we're well balanced.

Robert E. Lee

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Richelle Mead

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Rebecca West

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Tryon Edwards

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

William J. H. Boetcker

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Bible Bible

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Rush Limbaugh

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.