Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Montesquieu

Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read

Eddie Compass

In the annals of history, no police force in the history of the world was asked to do what we were asked.

Howard Dean

I now know that I have a speech that's going to go down in the annals of American presidential campaigns,

Ban Ki-moon

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Helen Thomas

United Press International is a great news agency. It has made a remarkable mark in the annals of American journalism and has left a superb legacy for future journalists. I wish the new owners all the best, great stories and happy landings.

William Story

Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say:Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day?

Willie Pearson

By not just deeming her as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we pay homage to her. The history of this country remains incomplete without her rightful place in the annals of our scholarship.

Stanley Gold

It is an unprecedented no-confidence vote in the annals of American business,

Edward Everett

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Katy Trotter

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.

Patrick Sweeney

Kaneohe's kind of a country town, I guess. There's not really too many places to go not too much stuff to do.

Kathryn Bigelow

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Bryan Lowry

Joe Mansour put his life at risk and made enormous financial sacrifices for his country. I hope that in the end the system that until now has failed him will set circumstances right.

Joseph Kabila

I swear my fidelity to the country, ... and I will respect the constitutionality of the republic, to guarantee its independence and to unite the Congolese people and to unite the entire country and defend its borders.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Bob Vaughn

He's accomplished as much as any player in the history of the state.

Thom McDaniels

He returned the punt past the 50, that let us tie and we won in overtime. He's had a history and a penchant for making big plays. I'm not at all shocked by what he's done. I know him better than Lloyd does.

Bob Woodward

He's ducking the question but he's also right. You don't know what the judgment of history is going to be 10, 20 or 50 years out. It may be very different than it is now.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Javier Garcia

I'm kind of paying homage to the old styles, (and) at the same time mixing it up.

Bill Williams

Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time. With this stately, white rose, we pay homage to his far-reaching impact upon the people of the world.

David Pierce

I did a big movie this summer, during my hiatus. That's really the time when I can do anything where I have a large part. That was Down With Love, an homage to the Rock Hudson-Doris Day films.

Werner Heisenberg

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical kind. To give an example: we know that the radium atom emits alpha-radiation. Quantum theory can give us an indication of the probability that the alpha-particle will leave the nucleus in unit time, but it cannot predict at what precise point in time the emission will occur, for this is uncertain in principle.

Emile M. Cioran

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Nan Aron

It was an incomplete answer. He didn't give any indication to where it would lead him.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.

Diane Wakoski

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Charles Bukowski

This incompleteness is all we have.

Meir Stampfer

Basically, you have to make a judgment on incomplete data.

Agatha Christie

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kings are like stars, - they rise and set, they have - The worship of the world, but no repose

Thomas Carew

Here lies a King that ruled, as he thought fit, / The universal monarchy of wit.

Rob Zombie

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

Richard Petty

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

Richelle Mead

Is he having a party?" "Dorian is a sociable king. He likes keeping people around him, mostly so he can mock them.

Russell Brand

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

Ron Atkinson

Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.

Travie McCoy

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.

Rick Riordan

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

Francis Schaeffer

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

Abigail Washburn

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Jason Schwartzman

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

William Faulkner

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Jim Roche

The Lockheed Martin team is the winner on a best-value basis,

David Carter

There's an old saying about martinis ? one's not enough and three is too many. Races out here, one is not enough and you wonder if two is too many.

Henry Zebrowski

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

Mary Carillo

The rivalry of Chrissie and Martina (Navratilova). I have told them I'll work for free.

Jonas Bjorkman

We used to have strong representatives like Todd Martin on the player council, ... But now a lot of the players are stepping back, they say (the ATP Council/Board system) is not working anymore.

Martin Short

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

Deborah Jordan

We want to get the message out that we're serious about stopping red-light running here in Martin County.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Josh Thomas

He really works with you and pays attention.

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Bryan Colangelo

He's a thug, and I want him out. He's always been a thug. I'll do everything in my power to see that he pays for it.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Jay Bender

I think a reading of the statute supports that it has to pay something for on-reservation children.

Anja Thiessen

I will have to pay 12 percent of my salary for six years.

Robby Gordon

I will pay him back. NASCAR, listen. He's getting it back big time.

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Martha Minnich

I've seen just about all one could see. It never get any easier, but it remains just as rewarding each time.

Barry Steinhardt

Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be proven.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Virchand Gandhi

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

William J. Clinton

The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

Will Ferrell

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog

Sarah Brightman

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

Richard Roeper

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

Richard Le Gallienne

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

Tori Amos

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.