Famous Quotes & Sayings

The last time I looked, when you call somebody a criminal and it ain't true, that's libel per se.

Ronnie Lott

The last two years have been a wake-up call for him. A wake-up call to be around his boys, to have fun, to be a great dad, to be like his dad was to him.

The lawsuit is in what you call in the exploratory phase and every piece of information is evidence so what town officials want to reveal is for town counsel to decide.

Josh Beckett

The last pitch I threw to Michael Young, that was about all I had left. I wanted them to call that a strike so bad.

Robert H. Schuller

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

The lines of communication are all out. I've tried e-mailing her, I've tried text-messaging her, I've tried to call her. I just can't get in touch with her.

The loss of that line was such a huge, significant loss that we had to issue a call for blackouts to keep demand and supply in balance.

Carmelo Anthony

(The loss) was a wake-up call for us. We can't take nothing for granted right now. These last 10 games, I think you'll see a better focus from the team.

The main part of this plant is cooked. But new vines, which we call suckers, will come out and replace these dead ones. These sucker vines will carry less tomatoes and they won't be pretty. This will be a sucker crop this spring.

James Ross

The main negative is pressure on margins due to increased wholesale traffic and call prices coming down.

Jimbo Fisher

The little things he does that I see, things the fans might not see, are so much better now. Little things. He calls plays. He manages the game, manages the clock, manages the players, the signals, the checks.

The job always has to come first. If you have a customer who wants to meet with you on your telecommuting day, you may decide not to telecommute that day. You make sure that if you get a lot of calls that you can get back to them quickly.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The learning of the syllables calls into play the three sensory fields, sight, hearing and the muscle sense of the organs of speech.

Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Isabella Bird

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

All of these things are heading toward what I call Internet TV.

All of the help line numbers that they gave us to call have been totally unavailable.

All the calls that we've been able to track have come only from New York state, Providence and Boston,

All the demographics are in these (lists). You just get hold of a list of the numbers you want . . . and from there, you can go to all kinds of vendors that call those lists for you.

Elizabeth Dole

... All the people in this refugee camp want is to go back to their homes, and that can only happen when it's safe, ... Anything short of that is not going to be something that I would call success.

All rumors of Vineland's demise have been grossly exaggerated. This is a wakeup call for us. You can say what you want about their times, the fact they don't have the depth they used to, the talk about their streak ending, but as you can see, they stand and deliver.

Anthony Andrews

And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to call 911,' and I just thought, OK, whatever.

And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven

And if somebody sees something, we're going to call the cops. I do it all the time.

The master plan concept developed for the City of Kansas City, Mo., calls for the construction of a large, municipally owned telecommunications network in conjunction with current underground utility construction in the Kansas City Live Entertainment District, helping to minimize disruption to the area.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Lewis B. Smedes

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.