Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

Ellen DeGeneres

Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

Franco Harris

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Francis Schaeffer

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Francis Quarles

Heav'n is not always got by running.

Ian Mcewan

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

Ian Frazier

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

Hugh Howey

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Hugh Laurie

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.

Hugh Laurie

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Hugh Hefner

I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.

Hugh Jackman

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

Horace Greeley

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

Horatio Nelson

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

Horace

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace Mann

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Homer

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

Homer

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

Jimmy Rollins

If I do what I can do to score runs and win the game, ... I'm satisfied.

If he just runs like he's been running he should be tough.

Giorgio Napolitano

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always full and running over. When we give our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of return, the Love within us extends, expands, and joins. So by giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and everyone gains.

Geraldine Ferraro

If you don't run, you can't win.

Geraldine Ferraro

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

Geraldine Ferraro

Every time a woman runs, women win.

Geraldine Ferraro

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

Geraldo Rivera

I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

Harry Markowitz

It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.