Famous Quotes & Sayings

My gut feeling is that there has been sufficient movement to merit supporting it in principle - at second reading - but I want to leave open that there may be things that need to be clarified or altered or amended at committee stage.

Matt Murphy

She blocked a lot of shots and she altered a lot more. She really disrupted teams.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

She was playing really good. She was a trooper and went back in there, but she was in a great deal of pain and it altered our post substitutions.

She was a trooper, she went back in there, but obviously she was in a great deal of pain at that point. It altered our post substitution. She was having such a great first half.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

Huston Smith

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Shekhar Kapur

I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.

The more widespread it becomes, the greater the possibility that the (bird flu) virus could become altered and become more of a threat to the human population.

There was an eternity left and I thought we could inch our way back into the game. Their size and athleticism played a role in that. They like to jump and block shots. That altered our shots a little bit.

The big thing with Marcus is his discipline. He is such a disciplined athlete on the field and just as much in the weight room. He is disciplined with his diet, too. He altered it and stayed committed to it. When you look at the evolution of it, it took a year and a half for him to get down to where he is now. He came into camp his freshman year at 348. Now, he always stays at a steady 290-295. To keep at that weight, that is hard to do for a big guy.

Emily Bronte

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

They were able to solidify their offensive line by getting two established quality Canadians. The mind set for them going into the draft may be altered a little bit.

Dan Hill

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

A number of the officers present in the meeting realized that the affidavits that they had prepared independently were not consistent and they took the affidavits back, changed them to make them consistent and then submitted the altered affidavits as original affidavits. At that point it became clear that there was something very seriously amiss.

Sam Johnson

I wanted to fully understand what was at stake if the pre-existing legislation was altered or repealed within the context of our new aviation climate, ... Further, I wanted to hear from various segments of my constituency. After many meaningful discussions and a thorough analysis, I am convinced now more than ever that the risks of amending or repealing the Wright Amendment are simply too great.

Although Wakefield didn't score a lot of points, she altered a lot of shots and let them know that she was in the middle.

Any time people are displaced, you lose a lot of institutional history and institutional leadership and we hear that many of those people may not return because they fear they will not be able to experience the same level of life. Once you lose that level of institutional leadership and institutional knowledge, it's not going to be replaced immediately and especially when you look at the fact that Katrina altered the demographics of New Orleans overnight.

John Schuerholz

And this year, we altered our roster in midstream, which was like changing the tires on a bus going 60 miles an hour. We've accelerated these guys coming to the major leagues by at least half a season. We needed these young guys, and they came up with the goods. They've really saved us.

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

Thomas Fuller

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Harbhajan Singh

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

Lord Byron

Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim

Michael Ondaatje

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

Rudyard Kipling

How very little, since things were made, / Things have altered in the building trade.

Foxy Brown

In May 2005, my life was altered drastically. We take for granted the simple words such as 'I love you,' but I appreciate them all.

Geno Auriemma

I know we didn't win the regular season, but I don't know how finishing second was all that great when you have to get the winner of South Florida-Notre Dame in the first round. I'm saying to myself, the four teams with a bye, this is what we get for a great season. I'm not sure that's ever been the case. They've come into this league and dramatically altered the landscape. They certainly have benefited and we have benefited from it also.

I knew that the two previous times I drove, the help defender either blocked or altered my shot. I knew I had to get the shot up quick and high off the glass because they have some athletic big men. And that's exactly how it worked out.

Claudia Rankine

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Edmund Stoiber

In this altered situation, I have reached the decision that as the head of the party, I can better support the interests of the Christian Social Union in Munich.

I'm just glad to see a conclusion to it, ... It's been traumatic for the school and the school system. It is a sad day. Some lives were altered because of this. I'm just glad it's over and we can move on.

Mike Scioscia

It was a swing, our catcher caught it, Doug Hennings called him out. Somewhere a long the line because the guy ran to first base he altered the call.

Judith Orloff

It's the one time people get quiet, they stop talking and flow into the plot. They forget about themselves. It's the only socially condoned altered state.