Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gottfried Leibniz

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Fred F. Fielding

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

P. J. O'Rourke

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

Serge Schmemann

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

Alan Furst

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided,

Dada Vaswani

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

Johnny Cash

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Ellen Goodman

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Adam Hamilton

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

Burning Spear

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

This will help cover phone calls and mileage to check out issues with citizens.

The party campaign manifesto calls for a review of the ministerial structure.

This really isn't that complicated of a scheme. If we're not a good defense, it's not because of him. Ray Rhodes always puts a good product on the field. If we're not a good defense, it's because we as players aren't executing what he calls and we're not getting the job done out there.

This should be read as something of a wake-up call to health departments.

Tamar Jacoby

To call the system inadequate doesn't even come close to it,

To call an evacuation on Sunday morning when the storm was going to hit on Monday morning at 6 a.m. is just ... negligence, ... If he'd called it better than that he would have saved lives.

The only thing I can say and I can implore to everyone in our community, is to look at the case, look at the facts when it comes to trial. And I will say, that I think the grand jury made the right call in this case,

The phone rang, and I looked at the clock. It was 12:57. I thought it was some kind of crack call, so I went back to sleep. I got another call about 2:30 and realized it wasn't a joke.

Dick Ebersol

When you heard Curt Gowdy call a game, you knew it was a big game.

John Schultz

There has been no response. We've been calling them every two weeks.

We just weren't playing good. As a rookie quarterback, I wasn't getting my reads right and wasn't calling the plays we needed.

Steve Burns

We think this could really be a wake-up call for the congressmen.

We were worried early. I knew if we stayed in it early that was a big key for us. I had to call a time out to get us settled down, but I didn't want to do that.

Tom DeLay

We don't need a hundred hearings going on calling people out of the field to testify... people need to be doing their jobs now,

We as governors join you and others to call for a return of civility to Washington,

We completed our digital mapping a year ago; we are the only county to have that done in Montana, ... If you have a GPS chip in your phone, which most new phones do, the 9-1-1 dispatcher can identify where you are calling from.

George Foster

We communicate well. It starts with Tom. He makes the calls and we pass them, and we have a feel for each other.

We commend House Appropriators for recognizing technology as critical to our nation's educational needs by partially restoring EETT funding to $300 million. Unfortunately, $300 million is just a start. We call upon the Senate to seek nothing less than the same level as allocated this year.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are coming into a new phase. In this phase, we are calling for the international community to help us return to the negotiating table with the Israelis, conclude the peace process and implement it.

We don't want to create an impression that all commuters will be transported by buses. We call on commuters and students to use other modes of transport to their destinations.