Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

Edward Gibbon

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Jeff Kleintop

We've already seen individual investors showing some signs of interest in the fourth quarter, and something like Dow 11,000 just increases that interest. This week could be the shot in the arm people need to really get back in again.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Kareem Evans

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

Mike Sweeney

We still only have 39 wins, but every person on the roster was into the game from the first pitch on. We were coming off the bench giving high-fives. We had a good shot in the arm of life. The win was a big part of that.

H. Hart

When you've used your arms all your life to paint and to express yourself, and now he's struggling to even open his fingers, it's heartbreaking. I think he's come to grips with it, but it's really hard for us to understand that.

Lisa Gansky

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

John Eyler

We are pleased with the early signals this year,

Pat Scelza

We started subbing and early in the fourth quarter we had some freshmen on the field.

Curt Fredrickson

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Jack Schrader

We started out well, executing and getting open shots in rhythm. They crawled back into it right at the end of the first half, and in the second half we got some good looks early but missed them.

Greg Kennett

We are looking to make it five in a row after this match. The key is to peak at the right time and to hopefully peak in the early to middle of April. There is no reason why we can't win the Valley this year.

Curtis Brown

We struggled early but otherwise, we held our own the rest of the way.

Rich Rogers

We started fixing the place up, probably in October. We put our first turkeys on the place in early December.

Sonnie Bentley

We start early every day, and we make everything from scratch. We don't use anything processed.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Barry Corbin

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Tim Parmeter

We started off on a spurt, but every time we got up by eight or 10 (points), we let them back into it.

A.J. Jones

We started off all eight together, did some medium turns, then four went over to a jump.

Ron Duchesneau

We spent the first six to eight months of the SOX project figuring out how we were going to do this.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Luis von Ahn

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I got it as a present from my mom when I was eight years old, and all I wanted to do with that computer was play games.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Lindsay Davenport

It seems like the top players are really stepping up and have been getting through with relative ease,

Mike Fisher

A lot of our top players are out right now and we haven't been able to find a way to score.

John Osborn

A lot of my players from Hancock who live in Santa Barbara,

Carlo Ancelotti

This continual rotation of players is very important to make everyone feel useful.

Gerard Gallant

They (the fans) are disappointed. I am disappointed and our players are disappointed.

Michael Chang

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.

Avery Johnson

It's the way we play. More than assists, we want to make sure our players move. We're really a different team.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The yen's rise and uncertainty over possible (dollar-supporting) intervention made players take a wait-and-see stance.

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Dale Thomas

The yen will weaken some more. There is no need to raise rates.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

S. Walker

This is the only way I think we can get this done without having to raise taxes.

Linda Jacobs

This is the only time of the day I raise my voice.

Robert Thomas

It raised our spirits up and made us feel good. It makes us ready to play.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Chris Bolt

Third place is very satisfying. We've had some tough seasons and to have the seniors go out like this is awesome.

Joe Blodgett

For a lot of individuals it would've been over. She was not going to end her season on the bench.

Eric Schmidt

It's only one game. There's a long season ahead, and our section is pretty balanced.

Randy Rice

This is the oddest season I've ever been through. Not because of the co-op. But it's been one thing after another.

Tiara Cook

There's been nothing. It did get boring. You're not supposed to have a senior season like this. But you go on.

Brian Daubach

There's a lot of season left. We haven't started yet. It's not the 25 you start with. It's the 25 you end the season with.

Pat Hill

It was sort of the story of our season down the stretch.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Chris Botti

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Edith Wharton

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Arthur Rimbaud

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

William Shakespeare

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

William Shakespeare

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

Bob Marley

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.

Bob Marley

Dry your tears, have no fears.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

Benjamin Franklin

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Al Barlick

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Chris Christie

I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

Calamity Jane

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Edwin Louis Cole

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Bill Janklow

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Carl Yastrzemski

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Anton Chekhov

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.