Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Steven Hatfill

I am appalled at the terrible acts of biological terrorism that have caused death, disease and havoc in this great country starting last fall.

Publilius Syrus

He who yields to his times acts wisely

Andrew Sukawaty

If you leave the face closed, it acts like any phone. Open it and you have a high-resolution desktop with PDA functions, ... the best smart phone you'll see this year.

Wendell Odom

It has to do with a fair trial. If, in fact, the first trial was terminated because of unfair acts by the state, then they shouldn't be awarded for that. They should be penalized for it.

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Craig Teagle

He's a shooter. They set the screens. Every kid that plays basketball can learn from him. He keeps his dribble alive. If he doesn't have anything he backs away and attacks again. ... The kid is just a great player.

Roger Mueller

I think we have some momentum and can give Watauga some trouble at home, ... Well need to shut them down and maximize our attacks to have a chance to take them. If we play with intelligence and heart, it can happen.

Joost Hiltermann

He has angered insurgents who don't believe in his methods or in attacks on holy sites. But that won't stop him.

Foreign Ministry

Recent new information suggests that terrorists may be planning attacks to occur before the end of 2005.

John Parker

Organizations are vulnerable to IT attacks because security patches are issued too frequently for businesses to safely test and deploy throughout the organization in a timely fashion.

Rafa Benitez

I preferred to lose Steve for 80 minutes than for one month. We tried playing second-half counter attacks but we couldn't score.

Joschka Fischer

in the strongest possible terms the despicable attacks in Bali.

Nihad Awad

Intentionally provocative attacks on Islam should be rejected in the same way that credible media outlets quite rightly decline to publish anti-Semitic materials.

O. Singh

It has happened before. We had stoppages during a few tournaments after 9/11 (the 2001 attacks in the U.S.) and also as a tribute to Payne Stewart.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Willie Williams

I have no idea yet; I know I'll be evaluating the entire agency. One of the first things I'll be doing is making contact with the citizens of this fine town.

Dan Bartlett

The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana.

John Monks

The Commission has sided with the general employer offensive on working time. Now the Commission has failed in its duty, the ETUC expects the Parliament to confirm its earlier stance and protect Europe's citizens from longer and longer working hours.

Steve Oestreicher

The citizens of Wisconsin have truly lost a conservation legend.

James Perkins

The citizens of Selma have a strong desire to help people who are in need, ... We have a lot of people in our town that are not being serviced. What I'm trying to do is fill (the void).

Ariel Sharon

The citizens of Israel deserve leadership which acts, first and foremost, for the good of the public, and not for the narrow political interest,

Tennessee Williams

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Joyce Meyer

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Jeff Hanle

We'll do everything in our power to discourage people walking back and forth between town.

Judith Hoag

My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Richard Flaherty

We do discourage playing one off the other,

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Stephen Farnsworth

The truth is that it is profitable for private interests to give things to lawmakers. And if it weren't, they wouldn't give them. If it were not profitable for them to put some of their resources in the pockets of lawmakers, they wouldn't do it.

Martha Stewart

This is what truly interests us, why we all come to work every day ... our passion is and always should be to make life better,

Dennis Woodward

Australia's trying to tread a tightrope between our various trading interests and our strategic alliances.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

S. Walker

You have to go in and find out what their interests are, and take it from there.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Peter Yang

He had the leadership to make that happen.

Woodrow Wilson

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

William McKinley

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Robert Teeter

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Robert Teeter

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Robert Townsend

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Woody Allen

In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Terence Newman

I plead the fifth. Any time I say something about returning punts, I never do. I'm going to leave it to Bill. We'll find out soon enough.

Terence Newman

I plead the fifth, ... Any time I say something about returning punts, I never do. I'm going to leave it to Bill. We'll find out soon enough.

Jan Hammer

If you think about it, the word "composing" or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.

Burmese Proverb

If you take big paces you leave big spaces

Takeshi Natsuno

It's much safer than the wallet you have right now.

John Edwards

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

Anne Schwartz

We are trying to make the streets safer from this kind of violence.

Jose Diaz

We thought it would be safer for him being that it was in the 44, ... We thought it would be safer.

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.

John Pont

I really think that is a real strength of the team.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Anthony Froude

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Henry Adams

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive.

James Russell Lowell

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Rick Riordan

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

Woody Allen

[The universe is] haphazard, morally neutral, and unimaginably violent.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Theodore Zeldin

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Dan Glickman

Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the whims of nature,

Norman O. Brown

To be is to be vulnerable.

Mike Pence

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Joan Osborne

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

Stephen Ambrose

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

Matisyahu

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

Jean Houston

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."

Hillary Clinton

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Shusaku Endo

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

John McEnroe

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

Eckhart Tolle

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.