Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've known her for many, many years. She's a pillar in the community, has been a leader among leaders ... worked many fundraisers.

I've found in various investigations that it ranges among ages, sexes, religions.

No institution can function smoothly if there is disunity among it's members.

Pankaj Mishra

No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.

Martin Rees

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

Hayley Mills

It's like finding oneself amongst friends. People look at you as if they like you. That is, until they actually get to know you.

It's low. It was a very important election and there was great interest in it, but of course many people aren't here. Turnout among people that were here probably was considerably higher than 36 percent.

Roger Lewis

It's more than a studio; it's a mixture of food and culture, among other things. It's the perfect way for us to establish working relationships with Jamaica, especially the younger generation and keep the continuity of the music.

It's always been a high-multiple stock among the retailers based on the reality of terrific business performance. Wal-Mart has many times in the last 15 years been a lousy investment possibility because it's priced so high. Our thinking is they've got to always be right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the most defensive stock among the major integrated oils and has historically outperformed its peers when commodity prices have been flat to declining, which is what we expect this year.

Al Sharpton

It is the height of hypocrisy for George Bush and others to mourn a human rights leader and scorn the movement she represents. It's ironic that someone who supports wiretapping will be here among the people who were victims of wiretapping in the 1960s.

John Hurt

It's going to put the cat among the pigeons, and that's not a bad thing, it seems to me.

Silvan Shalom

It's easy to call for a unilateral withdrawal when you don't consider what will happen the next day among the northern border communities.

Elena Dementieva

It's hard to say (if she would be able to be among the top-10 by the end of the year). She has everything to do it. But I don't know how soon can she be on the top.

We are not going to cause division amongst the group. We are not yet committed to the May 1 boycott.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Lamar Alexander

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

Kathleen Hanna

I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an assist first.

We are confident of being among the top three research academies throughout the world.

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

Where all that stuff's piled now, we were all in amongst that. It's hard to believe.

Nancy Gibbs

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

Nancy Gibbs

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Mo Ibrahim

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

Community colleges are popular among political leaders of both parties. But because of the lack of funding and a lack of direction, they have lost their critical edge in preparing workers for a 21st-century economy.

Dale Jarrett

Any time you get to participate in something that has a limited number of entrants among the best drivers in the world, then you know you've accomplished something.

Frank Robinson

A pitcher can be the leader among the pitchers and be there for anyone who wants to approach him. But he is not that one guy who will go to a hitter and get in his face. Sometimes you need a leader and arms of that leader on the pitching staff, bullpen and the reserves. A position player can cross the line and doesn't mind going over to talk to the pitchers. But pitchers are kind of hesitant to go over to the offensive side of it.