Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Ron Wilson

We actually got right down to the wire on both kills. I think maybe we let our guard down a little bit.

Jack Berry

We always hate to see employees move out, but we're always seeing movements, both in and out.

Atharva Veda

Wealth comes naturally to a person, who is endowed with both these qualities.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Brian Macy

We started out the game very tentative. They played some good defense to start with ... our cuts were slow, we didn't play very well.

Leslie Mann

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

Marty Parkes

What they're shooting for is what Mike called a visible and playable difference between those two cuts of rough.

Robert Brusca

We're still seeing job cuts in manufacturing, and it's going to stay that way for some time.

Grover Norquist

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

Barbara Reynolds

A lot of streets are still very dark in town and not set up numerically, ... This cuts down on our response time.

William Maestri

This is a fundamental priority for us, because this cuts to the very heart of our mission, ... to educate and be educated.

Gene Sperling

They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.

Michael Lopez

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

Nariman Behravesh

There is no question that the deficit this year will be worse than last year. A number of the improvements in May were temporary.

Jason Schenker

With the year-on-year deficit in gasoline and with economic growth it is hard to be bearish about energy in the short or medium term. The manufacturing and retail numbers, the regional and national numbers, wherever you look they are positive. The same goes for overseas.

Bernard Baumohl

It's fairly safe to say that the trade deficit may have peaked now that oil prices are falling and the U.S. economy is showing signs of slowing down.

Gary Thayer

It suggests the drag on the economy from the trade deficit in the third quarter will not be as great and could help revise up third-quarter GDP a bit,

Joseph Capurso

Following the accident, there's downside risks to exports in January, so the trade deficit may be wider than we expect.

Andy Klotz

It means we have to find more sponsors and make up for the deficit it presents us with.

Phil Missere

It was a rush. It happened all at once. It was a big deficit and then we were back in the game.

Shamubeel Eaqub

It's a whopper. The very large and worrying deficit reflects the imbalances facing the New Zealand economy.

David Bradley

UH-Downtown has a very severe space deficit at this time.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jim Kolbe

They need to weigh all of this because if you don't sign up for it now and you wait 10 years to sign up for it, when you're 75, you're going to pay a much higher premium.

James Awad

This Iranian issue is lurking as tension in the background. It's going to keep oil higher until it works its way out.

Mark Tolbert

They said that it might have higher than it should have been.

Rex Osborn

There was no risk or any concern. The livestock there went to higher ground.

Susan Gunderson

There's a higher likelihood that (blood profiles) will match within your own minority population.

Loretta Worters

It's all about how much your pocketbook can afford. You can take a higher deductible, but if you have an accident, you are going to pay a little more.

Mike Intravaia

I told the kids the expectations get higher every season because we started with a young group.

Emmanuel Ferry

This is the highest inflation rate we've seen in over three years and much higher than 0.3 percent in June 1999, ... Euro-zone inflation should come in around 2.2 percent in June, and the ECB is likely to respond with a 25-basis-point rate rise in September.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that agreement; but when we chance on those who differ from us, we are zealous both to convince and to convert them. Our pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders hatred.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Alan Moore

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Al Pacino

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

Akhil Sharma

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Akshay Kumar

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

Audrey Hepburn

To be happy - that's all that matters.

Lucio Tan

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Cass Gilbert

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Chen Guangcheng

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

Wendy Mead

They play as a team and pick each other up.

William Cotton

They have a right to pick and select who they want...and that's what I'm sticking by- their decision.

Sam Smith

This has been a long process. You have to be patient. Whether someone picks me or not, you just have to want it.

Kelly Herndon

They tried to run a pick play on me, but I read it right and went underneath.

Brad Hawpe

It's not like we're going to sit here on this one and rest on that for a while. We've got to pick back up on Wednesday and come back at them and keep grinding. Because we battled today.

Amy White

They are picking things up really fast. Things went really well.

Alonzo Mourning

It's an unfortunate circumstance. But if I had to pick a time to get injured, I'd have picked this time, before we go into the post-season.

David Brody

It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Charles Stanley

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Steve Hunter

This is the most regressive tax thats ever been imposed.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Martin Buxbaum

Did you ever think what the word 'vote' means? To me it means: 'Voice of Taxpayers Everywhere'.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Barney Frank

The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,