Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Galgut

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Marguerite Gardiner

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Eddie Jordan

We're going to hug him and kiss him. We're going to show him his way to the basket. He's a terrific guy. We love him.

Marshall Wittmann

Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.

Thomas Middleton

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there

Ken Starr

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

Lillian Gordy Carter

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

E. F. Benson

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

Gary Wolf

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

Ryan Priest

The rate increase is necessary to protect our customers from losses arising from future storm seasons, similar to 2004 and 2005.

James Hillman

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

James Adamson

Kmart's significant losses and sales decline in the first quarter reflect the many challenges the company faced in the period following our voluntary Chapter 11 filing, ... These challenges included reduced inventory levels as vendors withheld shipments in the early days of the reorganization and reduced store traffic arising from the bankruptcy filing.

Taylor Twellman

It comes with just being a little bit more comfortable. I've been a little snake-bit with injuries when opportunities are arising with the national team. I told Bruce (Arena, U.S. coach) earlier this month, 'I just like being here whether it is being a practice player or being center forward.' I just want to help this team win.

Jonathan Ravelas

It is a calibrated and preemptive response to rising inflation. They are more concerned with containing inflation pressures arising from higher value-added tax and crude oil prices.

Richard Li

It is a direct result of the extremely difficult economic situation in Hong Kong and globally, and of intense competition within our industry arising since the implementation of the current regulatory framework.

Anthony Chan

We may want to wait for another month or so to be sure that such gains were truly reflective of a upward trend and not just a possible distortion arising from the temporary 'hurricane-related' loss of many lower-paying service sector jobs,

Shinzo Abe

We are talking in the Japan-US negotiations about maintaining the deterrent and reducing local burdens as a whole.

Billy Graham

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Robert Green Ingersoll

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Gene Sperling

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

Peter Gioia

There are several hundred municipal mandates in Connecticut. Many of these are partially funded or unfunded and are problematic and unfair because they create financial burdens that cost taxpayers money. Cities and towns have only two ways to pay for these mandates: increase taxes and fees or cut programs and services.

John Griffin Carlisle

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

Jonathan Huie

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

Eric Kraus

We have never ventured globally into hair care, ... And our whole enterprise is on a global basis.

Richard Pierce

Yahoo! represented less than 2 percent of our total revenues, and if you look at the potential of the enterprise space and enterprise information portals, that market is very large.

Rusty DePass

Let private enterprise do as much of it as possible and keep as much property on the tax rolls as possible.

Dave Clark

We have replaced the informal knowledge sources with people who are pretty savvy with how the enterprise works.

Chris Nicol

The price offered at an enterprise value of around $360 million is extremely high for a beer, or any, asset.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

P. J. O'Rourke

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

Gustav Krupp

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

Melina Mercouri

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Lithuanian Proverb

The person who gives is a person who has

Pedrito Estrill

We are pretty happy about winning a championship. It's always good when you win a championship. It means that you have represented your school well and gives the school something that you can positively identify with.

Dave Littlefield

We're in a position where we can look years down the road and plug in other things. I think that gives us hope for a stronger future. Now, they've got to win and perform well and all that stuff, but you've got to get yourself to that point where we are now.

Ashley Burnett

We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an opportunity to practice and go over some things and get rested up for Friday.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

John Hanley

We're going to remove that portion first because it gives us more room to remove the main portion.

Jay Wright

We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.

Greg Simon

The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Alan McCoy

(The price of zinc) has increased dramatically, especially in the past year." ()

Chuck Brown

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

John Douglas

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

Cate Blanchett

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Charles Lindbergh

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Charles Handy

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Bret Bicoy

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

William P. Leahy

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives

Craig Moffett

As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,

Roger Thompson

Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.

Mark Cuban

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Mark Cuban

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think Americans are very patriotic.

Bill O'Reilly

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

Benjamin Harrison

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Chester A. Arthur

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Chester A. Arthur

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Charles Farrar Browne

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

James Madison

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Frank Chodorov

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Frank Chodorov

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.