Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Brad Gushue

There will either be a lot a lot of sick days or a lot of TVs in offices. In Newfoundland, nothing has ever come close to this.

Tom Miller

That's just not true or even close to true, ... What it would do is perhaps introduce some competition to Windows. It isn't going to destroy Microsoft at all; it might make them compete.

Chester Jourdan

That's going to come nowhere close to what needs to be done.

Matt Haryasz

That's not even close to simulating - when you've got a packed house, down three, Pac-10, Washington. You can't simulate that. If we did it three more times, it probably wouldn't work. But this one did.

Gerald Wallace

That showed the progress we made as a team, we could close out the game. It was fun.

Jerry York

That's how close things are sometimes. We played really hard. I think we competed very hard.

Jerry York

That's how close things are sometimes. That goes in and all of a sudden it's a fresh sheet of ice for (overtime).

Joe Alexander

You're pretty close to the station. So, you are taking a lot of valuable land for parking.

Martina Hingis

You still hope, you know? I mean, I thought it might be out, but it was a very close call, so you can. Maybe something happens.

Donald Trump

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Carolyn Peck

Brittney Vaughn turned up her penetration during their run and we got anxious.

Will Rogers

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Bruno Heller

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.

Mary Peters

Well, I am going to run over one of them trying to get away.

Paul Gray

We'll have to wait until they run all the data, and then we'll see which one we like.

Jake Blaker

Everyone you run into on the trail wants to know when, when, when?

Abdallah II of Jordan

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Pema Chodron

Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

Phil Collins

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Julian Barnes

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Larry McMurtry

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Malcolm Forbes

When you don't understand, it's sometimes easier to look like you do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.