Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person

It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.

I like to distinguish between 'citizen of the household' chores - like keeping a room free of breeding diseases - from 'work-for-pay' chores. But it's important to teach that you get money by earning it - there's no entitlement program out there simply because you were born.

Suzi Quatro

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

Craig Alexander

In contrast to Central and Eastern Canada, housing conditions in Western Canada remain very tight and are showing increased signs of speculation. When economic conditions are booming, it can also create the perfect breeding ground for speculative price bubbles to form. That's because in such an environment, housing market participants are at greater risk of developing a case of irrational exuberance, especially if they expect that such exorbitant price gains will continue indefinitely.

These pandas are immature. They won't be physically mature for three or four, maybe five more years, so we got a ways to wait. I hope soon thereafter they will breed and produce offspring and then we'll study that mother with her baby.

It's healthy when everyone is winning games. It breeds confidence and that runs right through the club.

James Blake

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Back to school is a very important season for retailers because it's one chance in the year when retailers get a shot at parents and kids at the same time. Historically, sports figures have been the big players; now it's a different breed of endorsers taking over.

Once we get out there and put some games together where we have some consistent defense throughout the game, that'll breed our confidence. That's what we're looking to do right now.

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

Now I see a better breed of young Singaporeans who are more vocal and will make certain changes to the country.

These cats now, these are a different breed of receiver than we were. They're way more flamboyant ... I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Vernon Davis

They all tell me they?d love to have me. I feel good about being labeled the new breed of tight end.

The (United States) needs to stop issuing such nonsense as soon as possible. They have so little credibility that they can breed nothing but further distrust.

That type of breed is not anything like your lovable golden retriever.

Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost

You might want to read up on the breed a little bit. (The dog) has a long, thick coat and needs a lot of grooming.

Kerry Condon

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. If my parents hadn't been in the business, we would have them anyway, as pets. And my cousin Richard is a jockey.

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Twyla Tharp

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Coo Coo was a husband, a father and a mentor in many ways. I saw a lot of Sterling in Coo Coo. He was certainly a vanishing breed but certainly not a breed you'll ever forget about.

Flamboyant? ... I never really thought about it, but it's true. We are. We're just a different breed than everybody else.

Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway

Because in the long run it will be another breed that takes its place.

O. J. Simpson

You cannot have political machines and end corruption. Political machines breed corruption just like garbage breeds flies.

As the season went on, the way we were playing ball, we got confidence when we went out there on the field. When you're winning, it just sort of breeds more winning.

Shane Smith

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Kofi Annan

Violence breeds violence. I urge you to opt for restraint.

We all know that Sunnis don't like it, and that it's probably going to pass, so that's going to push us farther apart. I wish this process was given more time. Now I fear we're rushing to something that will breed more resentment, more violence.