Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Ogden Nash

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

Lloyd Coker

Technology at our call centers is much better suited to handle outage calls. We don't want to create more difficulties for people.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Cam Newton

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Bertrand Russell

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Charles R. Swindoll

God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Cesar Chavez

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Anthony Trollope

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Boris Becker

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Sarah Elliott

As a player, you want to listen to her. She's been there. She knows. She knows the scenarios. We've just tried to listen and learn and execute.

Old Proverb

A wise man knows everything.A shrewd one, everybody.

Mike Greene

People are thinking about signing up at gyms, and everyone knows people make commitments and don't stay to them.

Mike Post

This is a total team effort, ... Everyone knows they are just one piece in the puzzle of getting supplies to victims, and they all know how important it is.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Daniel Handler

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

Aristotle Onassis

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Enzo Bianco

Berlusconi will lose because of this. Everyone knows things aren't going well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. ""Pauillac, 1873,"" he murmured and died.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Tyler Hansbrough

Every team I play is real physical. They have some big bodies, but it's nothing I've never seen before, and it's nothing I can't handle.

Michael Wong

We want this film to be seen all over the U.S. and we need your support to make this happen.

Rachel Remen

What if? What if things were different than the way you have seen them in the past?

Jim Calhoun

We have not seen each other as a group, I didn't watch any of the games. I just kind of stayed away, did things with my wife, shopping.

Andrew Kreisberg

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

Kristen Donofry

Now, we want to win and that's the first time I've seen that here.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Robert Adams

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Edward Abbey

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Douglas Adams

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.