Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

William Butler Yeats

One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain.

Jennifer Armentrout

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me out - the idea that someone is reading as I'm writing stuff.

Sunil Gangopadhyay

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

Oskar Lafontaine

One cannot work successfully without good team play,

Jack Citrin

One cannot stereotype Latinos as a group, ... There are differences depending on economic background, whether they are foreign-born or not, how long they've lived in the United States.

John Ruskin

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

Dav Pilkey

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.

Erma Bombeck

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Lewis Carroll

You may seek it with thimbles - and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Joe Wills

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that will happen in Merced, too.

Duke Snider

He was a very charming man, ... It was a pleasure to have him in our school district.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Loretta Young

I have a full, rich respect for fashion. I love its whimsy, its humor, its charm and its rewards. I love its vagaries and its demands. I love what it does for women. But I know, with all my heart, that no woman should follow it blindly.

Dav Pilkey

The show was really funny and charming, ... And I loved how it seemed like it was just thrown together at the last minute.

Terry Crews

A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.

Joe Wills

You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that will happen in Merced, too.

Duke Snider

He was a very charming man, ... It was a pleasure to have him in our school district.

Lord Byron

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

Kerri Gardin

Hopefully, the fourth time will be the charm. We'll see.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

LaVerne Knox

Third time's the charm, and it's about time.

H. Auden

Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.

Jose Theodore

People talk a lot about Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh showed tonight they're really a good team. They have so many skilled players, it's scary to face them.

Fernando Ferrer

Oh, he went into the valley to do battle, and all the smart money was on Goliath. And, then, who had to face 'em?

Moises Alou

Anything can happen in the playoffs, especially when you face good pitching,

Armon Johnson

After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that.

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

C.C. Sabathia

Some people may not know us. But I guarantee you that in clubhouses around the league, they know who we are. We don't have to see our faces on TV every night. As long as we're playing in October.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Ted Shaw

Quite a few of the men I've recommended for release have failed, and I've had to face that.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Jim Tressel

You've heard our formula many times. You ... need superior special units, relentless defense, mistake-free and opportunistic offense.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Rita Forrester

This is grass roots at its best. It's powerful stuff.

Andre Agassi

The wear and tear of the clay-court season is something that has set me back in the past in terms of the grass-court season, and the grass is something that I don't want to miss again.

Katherine Harris

We've had some negative hits, but we've had an overwhelming response from grass roots and leadership around the state that are saying, 'Go for it,' and that's what we're doing.

Will Kirkpatrick

You have a better feel with the lighter weight. With the heavier weight you are going to hang up on the grass or brush. You never know what you are going to hang up on out there.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Tia Carrere

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

Victor Hugo

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

Alastair Campbell

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.

Guillaume Salluste

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul

Ted Walsh

This is a really lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

Edward Norton

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

Ross Randall

We think it's a lovely gesture. There's so much interconnection.

Christopher Parker

I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

D. H. Lawrence

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

David Foster Wallace

It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.

Sam Levenson

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Thomas Brooks

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Andrew Garfield

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Mike Zafirovski

We have a very tall mountain to climb.

T. S. Eliot

In the mountains, there you feel free.

Sylvester Stallone

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Willie Randolph

We'll get two out of three and go on the road,

Rita Rudner

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Timothy Leary

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.