Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

William Morris

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

Robbie Robertson

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

David Strathairn

deep sense of the common man. He was born to the job that he did.

Bible Bible

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Hooman Majd

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

William Saroyan

The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.

Michael Robinson

The thing that's great about AZ is he brings so much to the field. He does everything well physically and he's just a born leader. The players respond to him.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Jamie Shea

As a result NATO is taking certain precautionary measures.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Joel Robuchon

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Alfred Mutua

As a government, we could not stand and look at people starving. WFP was only covering a certain part of the population. We were forced to use our network to save the lives of our people. At the end of the day, people were saved.

Eleanor Catton

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Joan Lunden

As a journalist I reported on health stories and certainly knew what I needed to do to be more fit and lower my risk of heart disease, but I wasn't incorporating it into my life, ... The more I learned about eating healthy and staying fit, the better my life became.

Rasmus Lerdorf

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

Mark Harmon

As an actor, you don't always know where a role is going, and part of the fun of playing this guy is that it changes and he continues to challenge me.

Eric Brown

Do you wish to challenge the legality of the extradition warrant issued for you by the governor?

Mickey Andrews

Coach Bowden gave a statement on that. The only thing I'll say is that we're disappointed. What it presents now is a challenge for someone else to step in and take over.

Louis Kincannon

Companies will need to face the challenge of having to mobilize and retain older workers.

Steve Campbell

Co-Lin has a great coaching staff with a lot of great athletes. It will be a challenge for us.

David Fox

Coleman was unbelievable. Coming into the season, he was going to be our defensive stopper on the perimeter. He has worked so hard and he wants that role. That's a challenge he likes, each and every day.

Ryan Gregorio

Coke is playing differently. That team is more cohesive, and they have strong post-up players. That will be a big challenge for us.

Mark Frauenfelder

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

Ian McGeechan

Saracens are my 'dark horse' team of this season, and I think they will do very well over the year. We are anticipating a very tough contest, and know they will challenge us in every department,

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Tom Flores

It was the way of life. We didn't think about it much, except that it got lonely sometimes in the hotel room. The one thing we had was a home base, and we had great players who knew how to win. We didn't let it become a distraction of being nomads.

Gil Morgan

I started fast. I played well all the way around, except for the last three holes.

Gil Morgan

I started fast and played well all the way around, except for the last three holes,

Chris Martin

I send my love to Liam. We're not in a fight with everyone - except George Bush.

Reggie Larry

I see that no four man or five man led the team in scoring, except for one game last year. I see myself taking that load instead of having the guards have to do all the work.

Robert Swift

I understand I still have a ways to go. Personally, I don't feel I did any better tonight than previous games except that I played 15 more minutes.

Kim Johnsson

The whole middle just kind of opened up and I had nothing else to do except skate down the middle.

Pete Carroll

These are two historic offenses. You just don't see numbers like this except in video games.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Wendy Watson

Elena was very consistent. She's very mentally tough.

Samuel Butler

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Jonathan Papelbon

When I was starting I would start getting mentally prepared before the game. Now, I'm getting mentally ready during the game. There really isn't that much of a difference.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Michio Kaku

Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

Ralph Merkle

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

George Carlin

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Harley Lee

Wind will not save the planet but it is a solution.

Ian Somerhalder

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Howard Finster

As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Maxim Gorky

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Steve Gunderson

Reclaimed water is not raw sewage, but it's still unauthorized.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Ryan Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Before Veeder

When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost. I sort of got stupid.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

David Stewart

There's no such thing as a typical sci-fi fan,

Adam Sandler

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Robert Metcalfe

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

Steven Pinker

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

Dick Van Patten

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.

Beck

I didn't want to do something typical.

Lady Gaga

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Kirk Smith

We don't know what a typical year is. There may never be such a thing.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.