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.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Bill Hader

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Ashley Tisdale

I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.

Bertrand Russell

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Bruce Schneier

We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes, ... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad.

Margot Robbie

I love flying so much. I even like airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

John Hamilton

We had our first airplane ride when we were around 8 years old. A neighbor with a seed company had an airplane and took us up. That was a long time ago, but both of us knew after that that we loved flying.

Felix Sabates

To make a hall of fame successful they need drivers to make appearances. These guys are not going to get in an airplane to fly to Atlanta to do appearances.

Warren Christopher

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

Kelly Kaylor

We have boats for every budget here, everything from a kayak or canoe to a $1.6 million yacht.

Jim Worthing

Who knows. I heard yesterday that the shrimp boats are getting them. I don't know if it's true, but I used to hear that years ago, too.

Gary Sherman

Wildlife, septic systems, agriculture, boats and road run-off all contributed to the problem. The town has worked to try to get these things corrected.

Houssaye Houssaye

Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats

John Petersen

I think this week is going to be really competitive between our boats on the water and extremely focused. There will probably be some lineup switches, some seat racing, and trying out some new guys, which is good, because it keeps people on edge a little bit.

Mark Richard

I think if the conditions are here, I'd say all five big boats will break the record.

Walter Maestri

We put life jackets on the fourth floor of the EOC and tethered boats to the roof.

Connie Williams

With all of this new development, it only means more boats on the water.

Ernst Junger

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

Kara Bunte

The outpouring of support has been amazing. People are now starting to see the images on TV and want to help.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Desiree Rogers

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

Tom Perkins

We have a new projection technology that we think will make the image immune from a teenager sitting in the (audience) with a video camera,

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Marshall Strickland

We?re really mirror images of each other. Dials is physical, Marco is physical. . . . That?s our game.

Rich Brion

We even have hooded sweats with the image on it.

William Butler Yeats

Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Twyla Tharp

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

Brooke Burke

I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

C. S. Lewis

Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

Cecelia Ahern

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

Cecelia Ahern

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

Cecelia Ahern

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

Cecelia Ahern

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

Carrie Underwood

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Denise Marshall

I wish I could have picked all of them.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Lee Melchionni

He'll have off nights. Tonight, as a team, we picked him up. We're not worried about J.J.

Maurice Greene

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Tom Woodruff

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Donna Martin

We had ample opportunities to score. We need to have better at-bats with runners on base.

Chris Bryant

That's been the story of our year. We just can't score runs when we need to and get runs in when we've got runners in scoring position.

Nick Johnson

It's very frustrating. We had some opportunities, and we didn't get it done. I had runners on second and third with one out. You have to find a way to get it in.

Andrew C. Bradley

Sam pitched very well for us, we just have to get some of those runners to score.

Bill Rodgers

That's fine; we runners are, after all, up for a challenge.

George Carlin

You never see a smiling runner.

Nancy Gibbs

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Francois Lelord

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Francois Lelord

Happiness often comes when least expected.

Sidney Lanier

Music is love searching for a word.

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth

J. M. Roberts

They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.

Pema Chodron

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Jim Hooper

Eventually, the waves get big enough and the Jell-O fails.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Neil Young

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

Christian Slater

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.