Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kreeft

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.

Two months ago I would have given you a prediction, but not after (Hurricanes) Katrina and Rita. This market is crazy.

The really surprising thing is the lack of inflation given this kind of growth.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Francois Hollande

I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Wendy Kopp

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

Mark Stone

Winning is secondary to me to the look that I saw on the faces. We want our kids to come in here and compete. Given that standpoint, I was very pleased with our kids.

Rufus Sewell

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

Rufus Sewell

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

Rose McIver

Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.

John Young

We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.

Dave Sim

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

But oftentimes what happens is there's not enough thought given to those deadlines.

The good thing about this team is on any given night someone can go off and score a lot of points. We are not a one-dimensional team. We've had nine different people as leading scorers in games, and that speaks volumes.

Bobby Jones

To their credit, they've given us a great effort. They were recruited to be role players for at least a year -- maybe two -- but now they're role players playing starter minutes. They need help. And help is on the way.

Maya Angelou

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Ira Glass

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

Don King

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

The question was whether he was going to get six years or 10 years. It looks like, to me, that the judge split the difference. Given his age, I don't think it will be a controversial decision.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Frank Crowninshield

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Oscar Levant

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Conor Oberst

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.

Anthony Weiner

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again.

Dan Davis

Anything that you have is seed that God has given you.

Joel Salatin

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Bob Weir

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

Andy Kindler

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

Malcolm X

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

This will give them an opportunity to have somebody in the seats, and it was the only opportunity, given how they've done out at Love Field.

David Taylor

There has been interest from non-Scots and they will be given the same consideration as the Scots coaches.

Chris Coleman

We knew last season would be hard and this season has given us a hard start,