Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Christoph Eibl

Prices at these levels can't be justified based on fundamentals only. While we haven't seen the top of the market yet, the risk of prices collapsing is very high.

Sadakazu Tanigaki

Prime Minister Koizumi made the visit based on his personal judgment.

Terry Thornton

Prisons have always been desegregated, but had we made housing decisions based on a person's race? Yes. It's no secret that many instances of gang violence in prison are racially motivated.

Darby Williams

People typically only buy wine in grocery stores when they already know they like it. The type they like really is based on the number of taste buds you have.

Mary Bravo

People think that you search based on objects. You think you're seeing everything, but you're really seeing very, very little.

Richard Robinson

Our third quarter was disappointing, and based on our review of these results and their impact on the fourth quarter, we are reducing our outlook for the fiscal year.

Akhilesh Pandey

Our demonstration that a proteins importance is not based on the number of interactions it has with other proteins is an important conceptual breakthrough.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Wyclef Jean

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Michael Mullen

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Melina Kennedy

As a mother, as a lawyer, I find it unbelievable that we would let children be near convicted sex offenders. We need to do everything we can, including at the city ordinance level, to make sure we keep our kids safe.

Karen Hughes

As a mom, I also have to say I really appreciated his leadership on helping teach our kids to make the right choices, because it really takes all of us. And it's wonderful to know government is going to be a partner with parents in helping our children to make the right choices on critical issues that could threaten their whole lives.

Robert Butterworth

A young child who doesn't understand what is occurring during a severe storm like a hurricane can easily become confused and frightened as a result of these unpredictable events.

Jane Harrison

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Ashish Sophat

A wonderful Combination :: A wooden stick and a pair of HUGS, can turn a raw Clay child in to COFFEE MUGS

Michael Leunig

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Connie Allen

Rachel is the kind of person that is going to take the smart shot. She knows that we need her to step up and score. If she doesn't score, she finds other ways to be a leader. She keeps some of those underclassmen in control and knowing what to do out there. You have two freshmen, a sophomore and two seniors out there. That's a lot for a point guard to have to control.

Michael Bennett

Really, I'm at a loss for words. It humbles you, but it really makes you feel like (expletive). To go from doing a lot to doing nothing, it makes you feel like (expletive). But at the same time, we have no control over anything whatsoever.

Kong Quan

Progress has been made and the control has been exercised on the funds that were involved in the case,

Kevin Yang

Probably Cosmos' major shareholders still declined to hand over management control to GE.

Tim Collins

Our service doesn't run on the public Internet. It stays within our own network. We have total quality control from the customer's home until we hand it to the public switched network. We have prioritized digital voice over data.

Tim Collins

Our service doesn't run on the public Internet, ... It stays within our own network. We have total quality control from the customer's home until we hand it to the public switched network. We have prioritized digital voice over data.

Devanei Hampton

Our defense just did not show up. We need to play our game, no one else?s. We need to control the tempo.

Jeff Rogers

Our defense did a good job. We knew they had some speed up top, but we were able to control them.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

John Randolph

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Bible Bible

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Joyce Meyer

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Charleen Scott

Sometimes, something will startle me, and I secretly hope it's a zombie.

Ann Rice

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on yoru shoulder adn saying Go No Farther.

Shepard Fairey

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Kristin Gore

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Hippocrates

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

Kenneth H. Cooper

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Robert Morris

It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

John Howell

They stand up to the ravages of the illness better.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Ludwig Quidde

As long as it was only we poor pacifists who said that kind of thing we were treated as lunatics, as incurable utopians, or even as traitors.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Felipe Alou

Sometimes, ... you have to take less to get more.

Francis Borrego

Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

James Cabell

There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted

Tomas Taterka

This was more or less expected, more or less priced in.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

Bruce Brown

I'm living in the middle of a nightmare.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

John Lurie

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Tony Couture

We passed very well throughout and we communicated well.

Brian O'Driscoll

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

Lester Funk

We're 16-4 right now, but we could be 0-20 and the sportsmanship has to be there whether we win or lose.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

F. Schumacher

That has to be our target. Whether it's realistic, we'll find out in Bahrain.

Ilya Yashin

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

Imtiaz Ali

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Elena Roger

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Joe Paterno

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.