Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

And the track temperature has in fact risen in degrees!

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts

Everything we've been told about these people is that they're very peaceable other than the fact that they're knuckleheads in their beliefs.

J. R. Martinez

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

While this group is still a few years away from retirement, this plus the fact that Americans are living longer requires these funds to go out further on the yield curve.

Darrell Jackson

We've grown used to it, man. We can't get away from the fact that a lot of people just don't think much of us. We come here and it's like we're the other team.

Well, he is more careful, more cautious. He's protecting a lead. He's very sensitive to the fact that any misstep is going to be magnified a thousand fold,

Brian Billick

Every team goes through it at some point, in some form or fashion to varying degrees, ... And it is a fact of life in the NFL today. What degree, and what your expectations are, varies as well.

At that position, we typically don't have a (6-3) 220-pound guy. So the fact he's as big as he is and he's a playmaker, game time, he comes out and he just balls. It's a big thing for us to have him.

At this point we do fear for our lives, ... There is some security in the fact that we are in a large group.

At this point, every game is a must-win. We are focused on improving to get to where we need to be for the national championships, but we are not overlooking the fact that we need to take it one game at a time.

Juan Montoya

At the moment I'm concentrating more on this season, on the fact that I'm here at McLaren.

Michael Moore

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Pattie Boyd

I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful.

We are very keen to put things right considering the fact that we haven't had a good last month in India.

We are obviously not very comfortable with the fact that all of them are played in the United States.

We are strongly looking at the fact that these may be related.

Ken Hitchcock

What is sneaking up is the fact he's got skill and is being labeled as a role player. But his skill is excellent. He does some good things with the puck.

What I would do is use intensive supervision, mandatory treatment and periodic polygraph testing to see if they are in fact complying with the terms of their release - and in the really high-risk cases, I would use the GPS monitoring.

We got as many people as we could to come down. We recognized the fact that he gave his life just like the guys in Iraq are doing now.

We weren't trying to hide the fact that we had LANL down there, ... This is a very small town and you can't hide something like that.

We just keep harping on the fact that if you remain humble and don't get too full of yourselves, good things are going to happen.

We don't rule out the fact that they could still be here, but we also recognize it's in their interest to go somewhere where it's less intense in terms of the search for them.

You have a problem here that's more long-lasting, and that's the fact that you probably have some involuntary inventory accumulation at many retailers because of the weather.

This year, retailers probably hired a normal number of people. We'll wind up with a large seasonal factor boosting a normal number, and end up with a large gain in retail help.

Julia Sawalha

There is nothing more special than a love of a child, and I love the fact I am an auntie.

There is no reason for the prices to fall when people are obsessed with the possibility of supply disruptions and the fact that prices are not slowing demand.

We've never seen anything of this magnitude; all help from all sectors is going to be needed. We don't want people to lose sight of the fact that this is going to take years of recovery, and we're going to be there to help the people who fall through the cracks.

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.

Gerald Celente

We try to refrain from making value judgments -- what the motive is. But the fact is that (Wal-Mart was) there with trailer trucks being turned away. Amazing, isn't it?