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.

Jeff Austreng

That will be the third time we'll have bowled each other this week. We're in the same league Monday and Wednesday nights and, oddly, our teams were scheduled against each other both nights. He kicked our butts Monday night, so I'll have to try to get him back. But he's a great bowler.

Jim Hinkle

That will be a tremendous game against Barrington. Whoever wins, gets the thrill of a lifetime against Glenbrook North. We're really looking forward to the opportunity.

Bob Turco

That was so important. Against Red Bank we started slow, but I think it was because these kids had never been there before. So we went back to practice, watched film and felt we had to come out strong.

Thad Matta

That was probably the lift we needed. In both of our games against Michigan, our bench has been the biggest difference.

Patrick Baker

That weekend is a tremendous opportunity for us. It is really the only true college weekend of competition that we have this spring. We play two very good teams in UAB and the traditional powerhouse of North Carolina. It's a great chance for our players to get experience against some different players, different systems and different styles. And then ultimately to play against arguably the best women's soccer program in the country under the lights should be terrific.

Kyle Brady

The 1994 season at Penn State was just a fabulous experience, ... We knew we had outstanding talent, but we also had a bunch of guys who were very focused, knew what they wanted and understood what it would take to get the job done and we went out and did it against some outstanding teams. When you see a bunch of young men coming together like that for a common goal, it is very satisfying.

Preston Sturges

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.

Hebrew Proverb

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

Paul Kinzer

He's confident he will still be playing at a high level then. The Braves made a good effort and the Cubs did too. He turned down longer terms from other teams. We probably could have gotten close to this much money and twice as many years. But this was the right thing and the right team.

Dontrelle Willis

When you think of all the players in the Braves organization, when they were in Milwaukee and now Atlanta, to be one of five players to be on the wall, that's special,

Todd Coffey

We're so close to Atlanta. We used to come down here and watch Braves games,

M. Wolfe

What he did for Chanel made fashion history and changed the direction of status brands. And his H&M deal was an extraordinary thing to do. He's the bravest of them all - he takes chances and they all seem to pay off.

John Schuerholz

This winter we have set our sights on going back to sort of the old-fashioned Braves way of building championship teams with dominant pitching. That's what we think we have done and we are excited about the pitching staff we have put together for the season.

Kip Pardue

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Steve Cox

We're excited about the staff we will have coaching with the Braves this summer. Lance is certainly familiar with the Braves and the Valley League, and we think he's going to do a good job as our head coach. Coach Christy worked with Lance last summer and Mark has worked with Lance in the past so we should have a staff that works well together.

Sylvester Croom

The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.

Colin Firth

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Alice Walker

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Nancy Gibbs

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Frank Lowy

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Bernadette Devlin

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Jim Vaughan

That was just a courageous shot. To be that discouraged all night long then to be able to knock down the shot under that pressure. That was a huge shot by a senior that wasn't ready to be done.

Noreena Hertz

The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we've only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too.

Jennifer Glass

The allegations are entirely without merit and will be defended vigorously.

Chris Simcox

The American people still have the God-given right to defend the integrity of the territory, their sovereignty and their national security, and they will do so if the federal government fails in its constitutional duty.

Tim McConnell

That was the key. We weren't able to defend him inside. He was too big and too physical. We're not a big team and he was too much for us." ()

Johnny May

We just didn't defend tonight. We had to fight ... to get back in it once they got a lead, and we played like we were tired.

Kara Lawson

We hadn't seen Seattle in a long time and they are the defending champs, the team with the title. We were excited about matching up with them to see what we could do.

Ron Watson

We were hard to defend because we had the outside shooters and we had the inside game. We had six players that could score at any time in double figures.

Mark McKinnon

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

Mikko Hypponen

I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

C. S. Lewis

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

C. S. Lewis

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

C. S. Lewis

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

C. S. Lewis

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Cecil Rhodes

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

Cecelia Ahern

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Carrie Underwood

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

Mike Connors

Half the inspections we do are in the construction industry because of the high fatality rates.

Teri Barbera

We have no idea who fired the fatal shot.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

Michael Lopez

Latinos have the highest increase in fatality rates of all populations. Safety has to be a top priority.

Michael Chiu

If the collision is attributed to road racing, this would be the first such fatality (in Bellevue) in well over 20 years.

Robert Thompson

Obviously, we are disappointed. We never want to see fatalities go up. Even one fatality is too many.

Jimmy Barros

It had the potential to be the worst ledge fatality we would ever have had. There were six people and they were all right there. And for one reason or another, she fell one way.

Cristiana Salvi

Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asia, which was around 58 percent.

Aidan Gillen

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

Scott Anderson

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Roxane Gay

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

John Schneider

Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.

Ray Tanner

I think he likes it. He likes to be out there when the game is on the line. He really does flourish in that situation, knowing that when his name gets called, it's important. Regardless of whether it's a short stint or we put him in in the fifth, he realizes that it is big.

Rachel Sklar

I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.

Hal Stratton

We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,

Don Kincaid

Most of the players on this tour are younger and some are just an inch away from playing on the PGA or Nationwide (tours).

Nancy Cartwright

I will stop talking about the twelve inch pianist

Kent Nelson

We really need an inch of rain to reduce the threat of wildfire.

Rick Riordan

I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place.

Jonathan Papelbon

If it was an inch higher, it would have shattered my ankle.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Mohammed Aldouri

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

Antonis Samaras

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

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.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Donald Rumsfeld

I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Carl Jung

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

C. S. Lewis

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious,

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Demetri Martin

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Albert Pike

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Albert Einstein

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Nisha Singhania

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Baha'u'llah

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare

And makes me poor indeed.

Dogen

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Jeff Bridges

It was fortunate for all of us to have Joaquin Jackson, who is a very renowned Texas Ranger, on board. He spent quite a few days with us on set and he added a lot to it for me on what it's like to be a Texas Ranger.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Patricia Marx

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

John Boyne

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.