Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.

Quintilian

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quincy Jones

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

Larry Ellison

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.

Laurie Lee

I was last among the long grass and I'd never seen long grass and never been on my own and out of sight of humans before.

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field. Our field is among the best in the ACC.

Kevin has done an outstanding job in improving our football field, ... Our field is among the best in the ACC.

Kids with asthma should be able to do anything other kids can do, without fear of triggering exercise-induced asthma. In fact, asthma is more common among Olympic athletes than in the general population.

The convenience group is declining rapidly. In 1998 that group made up 16.8% of our sample. The 3% that was lost by 2003 was about evenly split among the other four groups.

What we seem to be seeing is a virus that's spreading fairly rapidly, particularly among groups of dogs in kennel and boarding situations.

That stretch of time has gone by fast. You get back in the room and it feels like you haven't missed a beat. To be back among the guys is a lot of fun.

That's the one we think we have a much better chance at. The competition will be among fewer states, and we think we have a very good chance in that competition.

Shani Davis

If what I do creates a common interest among certain people to try something different, great. Whatever comes from what I do is a bonus. But I'm just trying to win. People will make their own choices, anyway.

If we were having this call 15 or 20 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about making choices among so many qualified people who are Americans.

Rene Preval

If those who have, begin to invest in the education of the weakest among us, they would be grateful.

Cesare Beccaria

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

Jack Roush

If the commitments we make to our sponsors and amongst ourselves aren't held, well, then there's chaos in our world. If we're going to do that, then why even write it down.

If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex.

If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Carl Banks

He was a man among boys. He was the guy who set the tone for toughness for our defense.

Isaac Hayes

He was cool before it was cool to be cool, 'American Masters' creator and executive producer Susan Lacy stated. ?He left us a storehouse of classics, pure poetry that will live forever because they are, quite simply, among the greatest songs ever sung.

We are truly overwhelmed this year by the number of films choosing Toronto for their world premieres. Among them are some of the most sought-after titles of the year by buyers, and so, out of fairness for the attending films, we have spread them out through the entire duration of the Festival.

Hu Jintao

We must work hard to promote the common development among all countries and the universal prosperity of the world at large,

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective

When you're in this tight a budget, it becomes very difficult as a family, ... Finances are one of the major disagreements among couples, and especially young couples, today.

We believe there could be greater impetus for potential mergers among the second-tier players in 2006.

Bill Walsh

We had an excellent coaching staff, a great attitude among the players and that youthful enthusiasm, It was a team that really shouldn't have been where we were.

We had two opportunities; we could draw on the side with nothing on it, turn the thing over and there's this set of designs of, say, the electric circuitry of the school of engineering, and you could draw in amongst all this. So, architecture and cities, it's all there.

Jack Canfield

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.