Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Tryon

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.

David Dunkel

Recent accounting-related legislation is having a significant impact at a time when the pool of qualified prospects is declining due to the 150-hour rule instituted by most states. As a result, many hiring managers have more work than they can handle with current staffing levels and cannot find enough capable new hires.

John C. Wright

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Fernando Martin

Real Madrid cannot say it went off to look for him -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't interest us.

Wayne Dyer

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

P. James

Our recruits and officers obviously cannot practice high-speed chases on the streets of Newark. Yet sadly, they do happen, and our officers must train for them. By making use of modern technology, Newark's finest will be able to simulate and train for these incidents.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Marlon Manuel

President Arroyo is not the State by itself. This could only be exercised pursuant to a law enacted by Congress.

E. P. Thompson

Our push for more federal funds is not predicated on one meeting. It's a sustained effort that includes outreach to Congress as well as the administration.

David Walker

Part of the problem is that when Congress considers legislation, and the administration proposes it, they only consider a one-year, five-year, or maybe 10-year time horizon.

Mary Boyle

Part of what the K Street Project was about was making lobbyists indispensable to Congress because of the money they were raising.

Bill Young

Our nation's needy families would be better served if Mr. Cuomo spent less time holding press conferences and more time working with Congress to ensure his programs have the maximum impact for those who depend on them,

Ben Bernanke

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one.

Ralph Hellman

Our message to the president and Congress is simple--let's work together to get a program done this year.

Tom DeLay

orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

Donald Rumsfeld

People have been moving together, talking, discussing things, ... You can always find someone who's going to try to be a dead-ender and say, 'If you don't do this, I won't do that.' But that's part of negotiation. We see that in the Congress and we see it in democratic systems all over the world.

John Gay

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Jun Ishii

Koizumi's victory triggered a rally in stocks and fueled optimism about an escape from deflation.

Proverb Proverb

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Joey Estrella

That was big time. In that situation, I would have been happy to escape with two runs scored. That play held them to one and more importantly, it kept the momentum on our side.

S. Hughes

It escapes all logic. We aren't able to understand all things. It is a matter of faith ... to trust that God is in control.

John Hunt Morgan

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

Kathleen Blanco

I can't feel we escaped the worst, because we don't know what the worst is.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Chad Campbell

I thought it was an honor that fellow players looked at me that way. I don't think I really put too much more pressure on myself. I just took it as a compliment.

Aaron Blake

I don't feel comfortable with my fellow students being out there until 3 in the morning, ... We are students, we need to study. We are students, we are liable to be attacked. ... leave that job to the police.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Daniel Woodrell

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

Chris Fisher

I find hope for the future because there are 100 of your fellow students 'dead' on the Rock today, in the rain, so that you will notice, so that you will listen, and so that you will care.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

Robert Jackson

(Grove City's) got a big fellow down low and their guards aren't too bad. (The loss to Marion-Franklin) was a setback, but it was probably a good thing for us.

James Browning

just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.

Tony MacAulay

He wanted to pull himself. I was not going to him let him do that. He is a fiery guy, a passionate guy. Every one is going to get emotional. He can learn from it. We can't quit. We have to play these guys six more times.

Dan Hawkins

(Guy) has a lot of energy, a lot of passion. He's a good coach. He'll get 'em lined up, get 'em playing hard. He's a fiery guy, and he's a very good X-and-O guy.

John Milton

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, / Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Christian Bale

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

Rhett Bomar

I'm a competitor. I'm a fiery guy. I like to wing it around when I go in there. When I go in there, I'm just going to have fun and everybody's going to see the way I play.

Mike Garland

I'm a fiery kind of guy; I wear my heart on my sleeve. My players needed to see that. They had to realize how much I wanted them to win this game.

Rob Sims

It will be very fiery and competitive. Troy's personality is like that.

Margaret MacDonald

A fiery trial which is to try us.

Walter Mondale

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Douglas Kirkland

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

Chuck D.

We never received the latest version of the principles. I think they were waiting to see if we were still going to participate, which they now know.

Henry Flynt

I was trying to be up with the latest thing. To a point, I just took what I was offered, logical positivism in philosophy.

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

David A. R. White

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Cheryl Ward

You know how some people just need the latest cell-phone technology? If you could say, I just got this from Punt, you were at the top of the heap.

Al Gillen

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Tony Blair

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Tina Ruble

Our passing was much better than it has been in practice.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Bible Bible

Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

A. E. Housman

Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

Virgil Virgil

Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.

Keith Richard

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Frank Uryasz

Passing a drug test is very easy. All you have to do is not use drugs or dietary supplements.

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

E. M. Forster

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Karen Howard

I just think it's wonderful that he's being remembered like this,

Phil Garner

If you can get into the World Series and win the World Series in Houston, you can be remembered forever.

Roy Diliberto

We are going to be remembered forever. That's pretty cool.

Judith Butler

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Fred Funk

Sometimes I think I'm better remembered for the Skins skirt than for winning the Players.

Kathy Lewis

Dana will always be remembered for her passion, strength and ceaseless courage.

Dave Walla

It was like all of a sudden, we remembered how to shoot the ball.

Lara Jean Chorostecki

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

William Hepworth Thompson

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Alan Shearer

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

Michael Johnson

We can spare one on (the day shift), ... But when we're called, we'll go.

Jacob Lusk

In my spare time I like to sleep.

Michelle Wie

I just don't have a week to spare just to try to get into the 36-hole qualifying.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

At the moment, there's nothing we can do. OPEC has spare capacity. However, whatever we do, there is no sensitivity in the market,

Dario Marenco

I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.

Bryan Cranston

I don't have spare time.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Edward Lear

In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea!

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

Bob Davies

I think this whole thing was a trial by fire.

John Bird

I would think that he didn't think the trial was going very well for him.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Susan McDougal

was not on trial here, only Mrs. McDougal.

Ivan Cleary

With everything that has happened, that was more than just a trial for us.

David Boies

We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.

Clarence Darrow

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Anais Nin

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

Angela Davis

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.