Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeb Bush

People should not take anything for granted. You have to assume the worst.

Jasmine Guinness

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

Raymond White

People assume that if you don't have any symptoms, you're OK, ... What we're saying is that's not necessarily the case.

John Barrow

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Ray Peck

Somebody's got to work with me. We have to assume responsibility not as party members. Somehow, we've got to get together and somehow we've got to do something. I'll do everything I can to support any reasonable proposals.

Jen Kirkman

Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Will Marshall

It would be a grave mistake for the Republicans to assume they can replay the boll weevil strategy of the early 1980s, ... George W. Bush is not Ronald Reagan. He would not come in with a strong tail wind of public support behind him, and he would not have a working majority in Congress.

Ann Beeson

It would be naive for our clients ... to assume that their calls and e-mails are not being intercepted.

Tim Hudson

Any time I have an outing similar to that, I always look forward to getting back out there, putting it behind me and making better pitches, ... It's a big game, obviously -- the biggest game of the year. I'm glad they have confidence in me to go out there and try to get us back to Atlanta.

Billy Godwin

Any good coach has to have the team behind them.

Vladimir Rushailo

As far as the tent camp is concerned, we have seen it all before and know who stands behind this.

Dominik Hasek

A shutout like that shouldn't even count. It was a great effort from my team. (Montreal) didn't get anything. The last two shots, the 11th and 12th, they were with one minute left and behind the blue line so what can I say. It was probably the easiest shutout I have had.

Scott Simms

As far as we're concerned, that's behind us and we're moving forward.

Shane Jabaar

A scan revealed he sustained an injury to one of the medial tendons of his left hamstring behind the knee.

Alice McDermott

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

William Patterson

As a Black gay man I would not want to have relations with a brother who was secretly going behind my back and then going back to his wife, knocking her up and possibly infecting them and putting them at risk, ... You are not doing yourself any good and particularly not doing the gay and Black community as a whole any good by you living a double life. It's all about loving each other and being responsible because that's how we're going to end this.

Heather Brown

As a freshman it's different, but I think I've gotten used to it. I know I have to be smart. I have to know where I am in the lineup and what's coming next. One thing that's comforting is that I always know that my team is behind me and they have my back. That's probably been the best thing about the experience so far.

Maria Cantwell

The Bush rate hike would have a devastating impact on our economy and jobs. I will not rest until the administration's plan is dead and gone.

Terje Anderson

The Bush proposal would transfer tens of millions (perhaps hundreds of millions) of dollars from urban areas, who are currently spending them on essential services, to other areas.

Al Gore

The Bush privatization plan would take the 'security' out of Social Security,

Charles Schumer

The Bush plan is a big mistake...it's irresponsible and risky. ... The stock market is risky and if he sticks to his plan, so is the prospect of a George Bush presidency.

Karen Hughes

The Bush campaign fought for the format that is being used tonight and I think was used successfully last week in the vice presidential debate. People seem to like it. It allows for a very thoughtful exchange of ideas and substance, and that's exactly what Gov. Bush intends to engage in tonight.

Roger Pilon

The Bush administration was trying to get O'Connor's replacement up there as quickly as possible, ... because of this botched nomination, the potential now is even greater that they'll have a court that reflects the O'Connor view.

Joseph Biden

The Bush administration was right to reverse course on North Korea and stop letting ideology get in the way of results.

Tony Oppegard

The Bush administration ushered in this desire to develop cooperative ties between regulators and the mining industry. Safety has certainly suffered as a result.

Charles Jennings

The Bush administration's policy has slowed progress in the U.S., and other countries have seen this as an opportunity to compete with the U.S. from a position of strength.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Cliff Floyd

Ramon's just been doing a tremendous job for us. Like I said early in the season, it's going to take all of us.

John Olver

Primitive peoples used biomass, wood, and charcoal for their energy source for heat, running pottery kilns, and early metal processing.

John Rogers

Probably 80 percent of that is folks who were impacted by the storm. We're hoping it's a short-term bump, but it's just too early to say.

Brian Ciemnecki

People should really just kind of stay in and wait out the storm, if at all possible. The roads will be snow-covered and treacherous. Visibility could be down to a quarter-mile for three hours or more during the heaviest snow late Saturday night and in the early morning hours Sunday.

Jerry Miller

People don't realize how susceptible these fields are in the early spring. One cleat mark can rip out the roots and that's it. The grass is gone.

Bill Richardson

North Korea will return to the talks in early November unconditionally,

Brian Grun

Again, we didn't execute very well early and that frustrates me. It was just a matter of having more talent, being taller. Marvin's kids played real hard. It wasn't lack of effort on their part.

Brian Gionta

Once we got up early on them with those three goals, we just stuck with what we were doing.

Gary Bauer

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

Michael Showalter

George Pataki is a Baxter, no question. But Mario Cuomo is not a Baxter.

Bruton Smith

I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with less expense. the only thing that is holding me back is a signing bonus.

Harry Belafonte

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Frances Farmer

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

George Parnham

A woman with this notoriety, with this type of offense charged, would be at risk ... I have grave, grave concerns.

Christopher Morley

Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard

Nelson Mandela

Even if I go to my grave I will wake up and come and vote. One of the manifestations of pride (in your country) is to vote for your country, and I am very happy for it.

James Rubin

the timetable for the ... grave situation we're in today.

Sinead O'Connor

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Jonathan Schwartz

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

Jerome Harrison

I'd take that to the grave with me.

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

Mark Haddon

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

Thomas Reed

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Ray Bradbury

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Evan Esar

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Jody Watley

People said it would be the worst mistake of my life. I tried not to listen, but it stung me, being told I'd never make it as a solo act.

Mike Johnston

People tend to mistake Groundhog Day. It's not important. It's just important fun.

Rick Bohlander

Oh, you can say that. But we made that flip, and it was done. It's the story of our season. Mistakes killed us.

Jeff Jackson

Someone tried to make me a monster back. And that was a mistake.

Todd Marchant

Sometimes teams have other teams numbers. We can't keep making these mistakes.

Alex Rodriguez

I've never seen Matsui ever make a mistake. That's the weirdest thing.

Brad Smith

It would be a mistake to try to predict the outcome and I won't try to do so.

Alphonso Jackson

it would be a mistake to rebuild the Ninth Ward.

Orlando Hernandez

It was two pitches and two runs and two mistakes,

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Tony Robbins

It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.

Michael Cohen

In many ways, this is a bet-the-company strategy for AMD.

Greg McBride

It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.

Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

O. Henry

The old rivalry, which may not have been so strong two, three years ago, is back, and it's marvelous.

Mike Farrell

Telecom is also strong today (Tuesday) and those have been the most oversold stocks.

Gerard Bisceglia

Preposterous is a strong word, but it is warranted in this case.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Dave Mitchell

It was typical, good, tough wrestling. We have a pretty strong region.

Howard Gantman

It was very strong in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster.

Josh Reed

The wind was really strong all day. It was very make-able.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

John Fitzgibbons

This is not a strong time to take someone public.

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Ann Macbeth

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Ron Perlman

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

George Orwell

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Derek Mazeitis

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

Adam Zuleger

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

S. Hughes

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Ayn Rand

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.