Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Grandich

Gold continues to defy the bears, skeptics and even ardent bulls all of whom continue to pay little or no attention to one of the most powerful factors driving the secular bull market.

Sathya Baba

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

William Godwin

I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man: and it is easy to perceive in many cases, that the believer in mysteries does little more, than dress up his deity in the choicest of human attributes and qualifications. I have lived among, and I feel an ardent interest in and love for, my brethren of mankind. This sentiment, which I regard with complacency in my own breast, I would gladly cherish in others.

Rachel Sklar

Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.

Don Levy

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.

Sue Kelly

Working toward this goal of helping local businesses grow, I have been an ardent supporter of reducing the tax burden.

O. J. Simpson

What we did, even the most ardent fan didn't expect from us this year. (The players) can't possibly understand what they've accomplished.

Sandra Cisneros

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

Geraldine Brooks

Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.

Brad Franchione

He's a guy that can become an all-American this year based on the fact that he has the physical attributes that you look for in offensive tackles and his feet have improved immensely. He can be a dominant force, a guy that holds the corner for your quarterback.

Patrick Campbell

It is clear as to the next piece of the evolution of the company is that we do need to get our growth rate accelerated here a little bit. Finding somebody that has the attributes to continue driving productivity but also trying to get a little more acceleration of growth would probably be the right kind of candidate.

Sathya Baba

It is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man, not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.

David Hamm

We looked at seven or eight different job descriptions and this is a summation of those. This is intended to give us a starting point on what might be the attributes and the duties and responsibilities of the chief.

John Cornforth

He is a player who excites fans and runs at people. He is very pleased. He is a good kid, an honest player and is good to work with, which is one of the main attributes I want as a manager.

David Parkin

He has shown enormous personal attributes and the professional competence which is needed to do the job well, so I think he would be an outstanding choice if they can convince him to do the job. But he either wants to do the job or not and I don't think you can force people to go down that road.

William Ames

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

Winston Churchill

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

Sarah Fay

Clients are in the same position as agencies. They are looking for a person who has all of the attributes but can also roll up their sleeves and do the work.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Tim Henman

It certainly hasn't shown in my results yet, but I'm a big believer the hard work you put in will pay off somewhere down the line.

Mike Mislak

What we had trouble with in the first half was the little things. What we did in the second half was the little things. Credit the seniors and their experience. We are firm believers that when we go on a run, that it will be greater than the other team's run.

Graham Arnold

Guus is a great believer in a youth policy and he is determined to give them their chance at international level.

Donald Sinden

Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

John Tortorella

I don't know why it should increase intensity. Our intensity should be increased to the limit right now, with where we're at. I'm not a big believer in statement games, measuring sticks, four-point games. I think every game is important.

Lara Flynn

I do not promote breast jobs. But I am a believer in enhancing.

Michelle Monaghan

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

Dante Hall

I am a firm believer in resting the body.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Rod Thorn

Kidd can defend the best wing player at the end of the game, make the big pass, get the big rebound. That takes the pressure off the players.

Kelly Clark

Khoury's block on that toss play - wow. That was one of the best blocks I've seen all year - on film or in person.

Monica Johnson

We need to pray for our brethren around the world.

Bible Bible

And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

Bible Bible

And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

Bible Bible

David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

Bible Bible

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Bible Bible

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Thomas Ford

These be the great Twin Brethren / To whom the Dorians pray.

Art Hogan

We set the mark kind of high with the Goldman Sachs' report, so we're not positive its brethren in the space can follow through and equally outperform.

Ranjit Singh

We wanted him to know of the problem being faced by our Sikh brethren in France over the turban issue. We want him to take up the issue with the French.

Unknown

(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers. Now, remember this moment and cherish it... because this will be the last time you'll ever have the upper hand!

Pat LaFontaine

This was a gift in our lives, for my family and I to play those six years for this wonderful organization. To play in front of you fans is something I will cherish for a lifetime.

Lance Armstrong

I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, because it's the perfect way to ride this race.

Steve Merfeld

It happened so quickly that you wanted to cherish it for a while, but you had to get ready for the next game.

Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

Tim O'Brien

Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.

Geary Claxton

Part of this is like history. And it's something you cherish for the rest of your life.

Tom LaSorda

I'll cherish the days that I spent with him and traveled with him. He was my mentor, he was my idol, and he was my friend.

Tom Crean

I'll cherish it forever. This is a special win.

Mahatma Gandhi

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Mahatma Gandhi

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.

Scott Stapp

It's Creed meets Zeppelin meets Doors with 7's (influence). So it's going to have some thump in the back and rock over the top of it -- but I'm not going to rap. I'm going to sing.

Algernon Swinburne

A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.

Shashi Tharoor

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

John Fiske

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

Bhagavad Gita

Whosoever desires to worship whatever deity with faith, I make their faith steady in that very deity.

Chas Freeman

He had a disdain for ceremony. He didn't have much of a light touch.

George Shelley

Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowments of mind

Ed Martin

There's not as much disdain for the older demographic as we saw five to ten years ago.

Barbara Boxer

My overall assessment, Mr. Bolton, is that you have nothing but disdain for the United Nations.

Bob Hartley

We're playing with passion. These guys never quit. We're seeing within our dressing room guys committed, playing sick, and hurt.

Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.

Eric Lindros

I can honestly say there isn't a guy in the dressing room who doesn't respect Pat.

Clint Stoerner

I am disappointed. It's tough competing, and it is tough to show out when you don't even dress out.

Rita Wilson

He was the first to dress stars - even before I married Tom, and that is 19 years ago.

Joe DiMuro

He may not dress like a surfboarder or skateboarder. But he can communicate like one.

Barry Hyman

Today is the next to last day of the quarter and window dressing gets more aggressive.

Richelle Mead

Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

Venus Williams

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Marcus Banks

He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him.

Curtis Stinson

He left the point guard spot and started roaming around. He got easy shots that way.

Gary Dilts

Half a point of market share is tough to get and easy to lose.

Jim Steeg

What we want in this whole thing -- and it's not going to be seamless and it's not going to be easy -- we want the people to come here and have a good time. We're here for a football game.

Ken Bone

He's a great, great player. He's a great kid. I really like Rodney. I just wish he would have taken it easy on us.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

Charles Henderson

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

David Powers

I think investors are really pleased with what they heard about the future guidance for the second half. We think that the second half will indeed turn out to be better for Intel. It's seasonally stronger for them. At the same time, they're doing an excellent job reducing their cost.

Van Coleman

He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting touch from outside. Very, very physical kid around the basket. He doesn't mind contact.

Jason Varitek

He's dong an excellent job. Do I expect him to be perfect all year? No. but he's doing an excellent job.

Mark Basham

I think their products are very good. I think it's going to be an excellent IPO.

Bobby Perry

I thought we played excellent today. That shows you how good they are.

Jeff VandeLoo

I thought their guards played really well. (Cotton) is an excellent shooter and he demonstrated that today. He played within himself in their offense without forcing things. He's a very, very good offensive player.

Teemu Selanne

I thought the first period was excellent and we were terrible in the second. In the third period, we found a way to get the job done and that was the difference. It was good enough to win the game. That's all that matters.

Jason Donald

I will gladly give him that record. I thought 19 was a lot, but Colt is going to shatter that. He is a tough guy.

Keahu Kahuanui

I do what I'm allowed, but I gladly let the professional - and often incredibly talented - stunt team to do their jobs. Even with all their training, they still get hurt.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

Donald Trump

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

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Steve Nash

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Kadiatou Diallo

I don't know what went wrong that night. I just know that he (Amadou) was in the right place because he lived here, ... He was going in the place where he lived.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Doug Tobin

Price and Evans lived in the same place. They were described as friends. At this point, we don't know why he shot his roommate.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Graham Elliot

Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Lenilson Guedes

That's one of the mysteries we have to solve.

Donald Kennedy

As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments.

Roger Richards

In December, we observed an impropriety in the bookkeeping.

Ang Lee

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Thomas Breuer

The most astonishing thing is that we have observed them using tools not for obtaining food, but for postural support.

Steve Sigmund

They're there to observe and to report back on what was said and that's it. That's the appropriate way to act.

Cinnamon Williams

They've already been observed mating. I was not here, but I have been told.

Arthur Eddington

Who will observe the observers?

Pam Ferris

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Adoniram Judson

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

Rick Masi

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Will Rogers

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Twyla Tharp

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

Wilfrid Laurier

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister

Walter Russell

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

Scott McCallum

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Ricky Boren

It's a perception issue, ... It's the way the public perceives our investigation of our own officers.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Lawrence Bender

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Sheryl Sandberg

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

John Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

John Maynard Keynes

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.

Rob Stillwell

That's really good. The timing in that regard couldn't have been better.

Brandon Banks

At this time, we are corroborating witness statements in regards to suspect description.