Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

John Pike

The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.

Ken Knutson

The stuff is there. I truly believe he's going to be in the big leagues really fast. The stuff that he has, I haven't seen at this level.

Scott Maddox

The stakes in this election are simply too high ... I have increasingly come to believe we cannot prevail if we are divided.

Peter Rodman

The stakes are enormous, the U.S. has a strategy, and we believe it's the right one.

Wendy Danielson

The spectrum of issues that a school board deals with is incredible. I believe the knowledge that I have gained over the last five years on the board is important to continue on.

Gregory Schulte

As a first step, we envision a call (by the council) for Iran to cooperate with the IAEA and take the steps identified by the board to restore confidence.

Hayley Hasselhoff

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

Dan Fisher

This is ... a wonderful program and we have just touched the tip of the iceberg with the potential in this Greencastle community and we hope in the next year or two that others will jump on board with it.

Tim Hopley

First thing on the board is that Huffman is a 3-point shooter off the catch. She came out and had four of them tonight.

Dan White

There was a fairly fast reaction in the market. The plywood is in big demand for boarding up and repairs, ... We're anticipating the same thing to happen with sheetrock. All of that in houses that were flooded (that) have probably been destroyed and need to be replaced. That will be sometime down the road.

Terry Stotts

I was pleased with the way we played. Seattle's a dangerous team, the way they can put points on the board quickly, because they can create turnovers and their three-point shot is effective. It was good to get it -- we had a couple moments -- but to hang onto a double-digit lead for most of the game, it's good we kept that margin.

Terry Rischel

Old tin toys, old radios. He has little soldiers, old board games, transistor radios, luggage, classic luggage. We have way more than what we could put in this studio so we could do this studio many times over with his collections.

Donna Harper

Mr. (Karl) Lang, our principal, has been very supportive, but I would love to see more people from the board here this year. It is so important for these students. It really teaches them a lot. They learn what it takes to put something like this together, and it helps them to learn to present. Some students have to moderate sessions as well.

Bobbie Gruninger

People have just gotten on board every year.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Andre Agassi

This is going to continue for a long time. Schools and hospitals ... this is something we need to stay with for the long haul.

Mark Manchester

This group has really improved. They've gone from not winning any games as seventh graders to winning eight games as ninth graders. They've really worked hard. I feel like this group will keep working hard and continue to get better.

Mahmoud Abbas

This government will continue until the end of the election period,

Dorothy Teeter

This gives us a really solid snapshot of what's going well and where we need to continue to focus.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat).

Jerry Angelo

There will be a few teams that'll come out (fast). I know I've heard of some things going on right now. So there will be some pretty big deals that will come out like in normal years.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Paul Horsnell

There is no instant turnaround. It could take five years, six years or seven years.

Ron Rivera

We've got all our people here. At one point last year, I think we were minus five starters.

Tim Bankston

We have a lot of weapons on the floor. We have five guys who can score.

Robert Lane

We're very pleased to be here. It is very exciting, what we'll do in the next year, in the next five years.

Frank Decker

We just ran out of time. We needed five minutes more. They never got down on themselves - they never quit.

Gwin Price

You give up a lot. I gave up my job, my family, the life I had. But I gained so much, too.

B. F. Skinner

When he was in school and worked in the store, I think the interaction between people is really what gained his interest.

Bronco Mendenhall

He was poised and gained confidence. I'm proud to be his coach.

Action Bronson

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Jennifer Lawrence

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

Flannery O'Connor

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

Christian Smith

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

George Will

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Greg Giraldo

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

Ira Glass

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Jack McDevitt

Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

William Arthur Ward

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

William Ralph Inge

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Will Carleton

There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Samuel Johnson

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Alice Barrett

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Shere Hite

Where there is lasting love, there is a family.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Damian Lewis

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Damien Hirst

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

Damien Hirst

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

Cynthia Nixon

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

Cynthia Nixon

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Cotton Mather

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Cory Monteith

How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.