Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Max Lucado

Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.

John Piper

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

Malcolm Midgely

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

Joss Whedon

She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender.

George Eliot

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

Jim Baron

(Last year) definitely helps. Will Daniels had to step up; we had a number of guys that had to step up. That certainly helps you, because they went through a baptism by fire and got some quality minutes. Now, you have to continue to build continuity and continue to build chemistry with each and every game.

Marty Schottenheimer

He played about the way I would have thought; you talk about a baptism in this league. They bring the ranch; they blitz and they blitz and they blitz and it paid dividends. We were sacked six times today. It's pretty hard to be efficient when that happens.

Ken Kesey

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Friso Abbing

We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.

John Cunliffe

We have to find out exactly what's going on with the slide. Geologists say it's still moving slowly.

Friso Abbing

We have to find out exactly what is happening.

Bob Sullivan

We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to put in the stove like Laura did.

Francesco Buranelli

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Mark Kennedy

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

Nick Offerman

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Nonso Anozie

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.

Raghav Bahl

When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Alan Faneca

When you've got 50-plus guys doing it one way, those guys will adapt. It may not be who they were, but it's who they became.

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

John Richardson

We were a stronger team than they were. I thought we were a little tentative at times, but halfway through first set the guys played smart tennis. The last set scores were pretty convincing.

Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Ed Bradley

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

John Parsons

We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment.

Valerie Miller

We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.

Valerie Cunningham

We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Rod Paige

whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue.

Joyce Brothers

We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone.

Dave Ross

We're still interested in a sale of the property. We don't know how we could just go and give it away.

Andrew Burgreen

We're looking for investors that would be interested in using the tax credits,

Tom Swan

For him to officially get in, we're going to need to recruit volunteers from every town.

Derek Jeter

The season doesn't officially start till you get this one out of the way. Fortunately, we were able to sneak this one out.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation for this particular opportunity. So we're going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Tony McCoy

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.

Rob Gronkowski

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Royce Waltman

He's been practicing and he's in school, but I'm not sure what his status is going to be.

Shannon Flaherty

It is his right, and he has been practicing that right.

Jenna D'Alie

I haven't really been out there yet. I've been practicing and practicing, even through the injury. I want to show the university what I can do.

Eric Clapton

I know that when I was a full-blown, practicing alcoholic, everyone used to walk around me on eggshells,

Spencer Gardner

All that practicing catches up and a lot of shots just fall.

John Mueller

It's like a jog-a-ton, only we will be practicing (not running) for three hours.

Jeff Judkins

You can't kill a team by practicing too much.

Donald Glover

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

Elizabeth Banks

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.

Jonathan Overpeck

What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.

Karen Thomas

You can never really predict who comes in or what they will need.

Robert Kiyosaki

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

T. Boone Pickens

Predictability can lead to failure.

Bobby Robson

I took a risk in putting Dyer on because I trusted our public. They didn't let me down,

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Michael Rodgers

The situation is serious. That's why I recommended no travel for this year. We've been putting this off, and the situation hasn't improved.

Gene Luen Yang

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

Maxwell

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Philip Kerr

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Ernest Borgnine

Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.

Joe Klein

We're putting our teams together now. If he comes, it's a bonus.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Kent Davison

About time we get one at home, don't you think? It is sort of crazy.

Pete Doherty

It's just some sort of mistake, that's all,

Peter Diamandis

For me, it's sort of a remembrance of 'Star Wars' pod racing.