Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Gonzalez

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Stephen Harper

We have no alternative but to accept the checks; they're part of our system.

Alpha Konare

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Geoff Hoon

We want Saddam to accept the will of the international community,

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

Mark Billingham

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Ashwin Sanghi

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

Simon Langford

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Julianne Moore

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

Gretchen Rubin

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Eric Lander

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

Jim Jones

This proposed rule contains some of the strongest protections for human subjects ever proposed by the federal government.

Kenneth Branagh

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

John Hargreaves

We have produced record results...these have been delivered by providing our members with outstanding value for money and through continued store expansion,

Michael Flanagan

There is continued takeover speculation surrounding the entire group. I suspect that is the primary reason moving the stock.

David King

We shall never forget their enthusiasm, love of space, dedication, and their continued inspiration.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Lawrence Hargrave

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.

Rob Sims

We deserve that record. Our guys played hard and stuck together through a lot of ups and downs. And we continued to win.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Kiesza

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

James Snyder

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

John Cross

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.

Chris Harper

No one is more than a sum total of his life experiences. Mr. Wilson is the son of a strict disciplinarian who ruled his home with an iron fist as well.

Adlai E. Stevenson

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety

Curtis Jones

He seemed kind of ticked-off. His fists were doubled, clenched down by his side.

Craig Grau

The alternative is getting into fist fights. Even hot words are better than fist fights.

Steven Chercover

I wasn't surprised by this, ... This keeps Willamette's fist to the fire.

George Foreman

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Betty Williams

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time, a maniac scattering dust,/ And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

Cyril Connolly

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

Jim Easton

I think he's positioning himself for the future. Some of the fury will have subsided, and everyone will be a little more receptive to change. Unless there's a problem they're not addressing, I think all the sports that are in now should stay. For this vote I think the message is, Shape up or ship out.

Mark Almond

For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.

Dave Goldberg

It's a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Louis MacNeice

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Archibald MacLeish

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Craig Johnson

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

John Corcoran

We did everything possible to save his life.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Twiggy

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

George H. W. Bush

make it possible -- more possible -- to do our job.

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Carlos Mencia

Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store!

C. S. Lewis

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

Agnes Repplier

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Anna Held

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Branch Rickey

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Diane Wakoski

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Dianne Feinstein

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Todd Graham

This (program) was tough to turn around, but that's what I do.

Jan Karon

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Scott Cross

We've got a tough draw, but what the heck. They're all tough at this point.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Demi Lovato

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.