Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Sivananda

Know that wealth, sex-delights, power, learning are all bondage. This is the beginning of wisdom.

Andy Cerroni

Jake Wagner had one of his better games for us on Thursday. He's beginning to gain more and more confidence with each game.

Leon Panetta

Just when we should be getting ready for the 21st century, our education system is beginning to fall down in terms of preparing our students for that future.

Caroline Williams

I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good job of hitting the open person, whether it was me or Tina. We were all just seeing each other really well and running the floor.

Neal Cotts

I think in our case it's come together pretty well. I think Ozzie instilled that from the beginning in spring training, that we're going to be together six months and make the best out of it.

Kim Clijsters

It can change so quickly. That was the frustrating part. I felt like I was controlling the rallies in the first and the beginning of the second set, and all of a sudden you just lose all the feeling of your strokes. That's tennis sometimes.

Margaret Ruemenapp

It as a well played match. This team is beginning to gel in a big way and we saw some fine doubles points.

Jill Craybas

I actually had a lot of fun out there. In the beginning I was trying to go for too much. Once I got over, I got into a groove.

Omar Vizquel

He was a big factor in my decision to come here, to be on a team with one of the greatest home run hitters in the history of the game, ... There is no doubt that if he was here from the beginning it would be a different story for this team.

and City

No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.

Vaclav Havel

For 15 years the Government of Burma (Myanmar) has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse,

John O'Hurley

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Michael Carter

I think it is interesting, my grandparents used it, my mom used it. And everyone in my family used it.

Bob Reed

It always was a family and still is.

Pablo Gomez

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Jim Jackson

Not only is it an invasion of privacy, but it's just not right.

Joseph Cataldo

It's such an invasion of privacy, ... You feel like Big Brother's watching you. It baffles my mind. I'm such an open book, you want to know something, you ask.

Murray Rothbard

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

John Dewey

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

William Amos

It would have been a terribly costly invasion for them and us,

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Richard Lopez

To me, it's unethical. I think it's an invasion of privacy and never really needed to use it.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Hiroaki Takai

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

Peter Bjarkman

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

Paresh Upadhyaya

The Japanese would like to see a weaker yen. They thought it strengthened too much unilaterally.

Akio Yoshino

The Japanese market recovery is being underpinned by unusual strength in U.S. equities.

Hu Jintao

something the Japanese side should seriously reflect on.

John Rossi

Sometimes several (of us) were shooting the same Japanese fighter.Who knows which one took it down, and we just shared the result,

Atsuko Abe

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Joni Mitchell

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Noam Chomsky

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Karl Marx

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

P. C. Cast

Value them; they are pearls of great price

Coco Chanel

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Confucius

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Robert Kennedy

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never cast pearls before swine.

Tony Tan

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Robert Conquest

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

Rob Zombie

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, it [horror movie] just seems a little ridiculous.

Richard Perle

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Perle

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.