Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar

Jon Arnold

There is a huge transformational shift in the way consumers and businesses alike are signing up for non traditional phone services -- and a unique offering like this enables them to be

Peter Takirambudde

Rebel and government commanders alike must order their forces to protect all civilians, regardless of ethnicity. Attacking civilians and targeting ethnic groups are forbidden under the laws of war.

John Donne

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Maya Angelou

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

D. James

The good news for motorists and retailers alike is that petrol prices have potential to fall even further.

Rudyard Kipling

The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

Aileen Carroll

Half of this will go to the South Asia earthquake matching fund; the remaining will go to the two appeals we have now received, one from the United Nations and one from the Red Cross movement,

Jim Cullinan

It clearly reveals one important thing that the government is trying to do, which is avoid the Court of Appeals in every possible way.

Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Jonathan Turley

Life on the appeals court tends to move at a leisurely and comfortable pace.

John Tanner

We may have gotten good jurors who had no opinion and could give these men a fair trail but we were on thin ice with the appeals court if we went forward with this case.

Janet Reno

In accordance with the Court of Appeals ruling we will take every step necessary to ensure that Elian does not leave the country while the Court of Appeals injunction is place,

Spencer Waller

I had expected there to be some more hearings. I would have expected him to entertain witnesses, but not engage in the full-fledged discovery that Microsoft wanted. That would have given them a little victory, and to the extent where if the court of appeals disagrees with him, it would be on the merits, not the process.

David Roberts

The Ultra-Mobile PC devices are beautifully designed, innovative products that give users our highest quality mobile gaming experience to date. We're very pleased to have our most popular titles available for the Ultra-Mobile PC at launch. Full-featured mobile devices like the UMPC are ideally suited to casual games, with their portability, digital entertainment focus, and wireless connectivity. Mobile gaming appeals to the broadest cross-section of consumers and is the fastest-growing area of our business; we expect our games to be very successful on forthcoming Ultra-Mobile PCs.

Gerald Treece

The trial court has already said it's a good-faith mistake. I think the Court of Appeals is not going to get involved in this. I think everybody realizes Harris County got hoodwinked as much as the defense did with Park Dietz's testimony.

Michael Geoghegan

It can be anything from corporate commercial stuff to somebody sharing their most personal thoughts.

Seth Shostak

NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.

Leif Johansson

There is a growing interest in the market to reduce fuel consumption. We now have a technology that is interesting from a commercial viewpoint . . . for a hybrid market for heavy vehicles.

John DeVilbiss

There is no good explanation. It's uncharacteristic with a driver with a commercial driver's license. Information like this, it's unfathomable.

Lee Brumbaugh

Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered urban industrial documentary. It foreshadows Walker Evans's documentary work of the 1930s.

Edmund Burke

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

David Williamson

We have tied up the Biosphere and we're talking about doing a master-planned community and commercial property. We're going to do a high-end community.

Peter O'Meara

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Brett Hull

I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

Owen Fitzpatrick

In general it's going to be that type of week where the number of the day dictates the market.

Tyson Chandler

The game dictates when you have to step up and make a big play. When you have the opportunity, it feels great to rise to the occasion.

Mark Reed

SUNY policy dictates that we need to get student input on any fee increase.

John Mayall

I write songs about real things, ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Mark Loretta

I think his experience is going to be unbelievable tomorrow. He doesn't have any fear, and he doesn't take his time. He dictates the pace. As an infielder, that helps so much. Having him go tomorrow, I think he could turn this thing.

Stephanie Soddy

I don't like to stay housebound. I don't like it when weather dictates whether or not I can leave my house.

Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

George Foster

Here we'd like to think they can start to think about the ideas we're teaching, but their main job is to perform on the field.

Bob Garner

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Mike Moore

I think they will respond to our ideas in Shanghai,

Rob Enderle

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

Carl Jung

You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Newt Gingrich

Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.

John Moores

They (county commissioners) have raised a legitimate issue. It should be studied, and we should do the right thing.

Todd Wilkinson

You never know how it's going. It seemed like a legitimate gamble.

Alex Ebert

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Jane Gardam

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Buchanan Robinson

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Mao Zedong

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

John F. Kennedy

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

Garrett Hardin

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ray Takeyh

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Keith Henderson

Evidence-wise, we're going to present two different cases,

Robin Williams

I'm going to go to Kennebunkport and see if they respond any quicker!

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Jon Gruden

It's a big game. I've been warned of that. 'How are you going to respond to winning? How are you going to respond to losing?' Let's just respond, you know.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Jay Siegel

I don't know where that sound comes from,

Robert Crais

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....