Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kehlog Albran

Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.

Tony Hawk

Some of the spins he has learned on his skateboard had never been done before, because we, as skaters, didn't have a frame of reference to try them for the first time. For instance, nobody had attempted a 1080 in skating until Shaun tried it last year. He wasn't scared because he's done it plenty of times in the snow.

Saxby Chambliss

Japan is well beyond the time for assessing scientific reasoning, and diplomatic efforts attempted repeatedly by the president, by our trade emissaries, and by the U.S. Congress,

Tom Fitton

Jesse Jackson attempted to use every legal trick at his disposal to have this case dismissed, and he failed. This trial is a major step in holding Jackson accountable for his actions.

Jim Hood

I'm still upset. We got a bunch of bad breaks (a couple of incorrect scorecards and an ineligible player). We came out today and attempted to finish on top. But Geneva played solid from top to bottom. I'm looking forward to next year.

Richard Brodhead

I am aware that police attempted to enter those rooms and I am now about to leave this news conference to learn the whole story.

Dom Capers

I believe we have our most talented group. We have attempted to stay consistent in following the plan. We have improved each season and I think this will be the most competitive team we've had.

Kirk Hoza

He lined up out of position. That means instead of being two yards from the ball carrier, you might be seven, and then what should be an easy tackle near the line becomes an attempted tackle in the open field, and a 2-yard gain turns into 10.

Neal Hersh

I found it very disturbing that Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which was before the court today, which is his daughter, Ireland.

Philip Kerr

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

Eddie Izzard

PiAno,piAno'It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

Monty Python

Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.

David Sanborn

I think ticket prices are too high, but it costs so bloody much money to get anything together anymore.

Tom McMahon

I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen trying to figure the bloody thing out.

John Hume

Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot while handling firearms or explosives -- if that is the case, could he please tell me why they were shot?

E. Hicks

I think it's just bloody disgusting what they're doing to him.

Henry David Thoreau

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

J. Nicholson

When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Michael Leunig

Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.

Robert Brustein

Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained.

Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Javier Solana

It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.

Tony Mowbray

It is a cruel game and it is very harsh on the players. To come in 3-1 down at half-time felt unfair and the penalty was a killer for us. It looked very soft. At 2-1 down, we were just one goal away from winning the tie and in with a real chance.

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Paul Austin

I always heard that kids are cruel ... but these kids treat her like a sister. They look out for her.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Mark Frauenfelder

I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.

Ruth Reichl

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Jerry Hollendorfer

That was just an experiment that worked out. We sure weren't thinking about any million-dollar race for him.

Uday Kotak

As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

John Henry Carver

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.

Bonnie Bassler

It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

Edward Carpenter

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Adam Smith

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

Guy Fieri

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Kevin Bianco

I think this is a win for everyone in North Bergen.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Jamie Bell

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Darrell Jackson

I don't think people really give the Northwest a lot of respect.

John Williamson

Hopefully, this will be used by all of the county. It's more than just North High.

Brigitte Bardot

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the government.

Willie Randolph

He has the tendency to overthrow the ball. I'm sure tonight it was no different.

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Cornel West

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

William Blake

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Michelle Birdsong

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented.

Saint Ambrose

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

Anselm of Canterbury

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

J. I. Packer

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

J. C. Ryle

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Giovanni Boccaccio

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Ezra Taft Benson

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

Publilius Syrus

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Publilius Syrus

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Doug Harvey

I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball.

Benjamin Disraeli

We moralize among ruins.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Clare Phillips

We can't and won't let this ruin our season,

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Don DeLillo

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Confucius

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

J. D. Hayworth

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Becca Fitzpatrick

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

Barry Pepper

Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

Barry McGuire

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.