Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Toombs

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

Arthur Conan

Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.

Sathya Baba

Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Robert Toombs

Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.

Charles Dickens

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

Michael Morpurgo

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Ray Gardner

Last year was a tough year for everybody in the Northwest, and we were already closed at this point last year. And we have a ton of snow on the ground now.

Phil Smith

One of the things we've been after the guys about is the killer instinct and not letting adversity get them down.

Chris Petersen

One of the things we pound to our players is how you handle adversity, and I know that was a lot of adversity for him. ... We were kind of waiting and watching to see how he handled that whole thing, and he handled it like a champ.

Mark Cooper

One's true character shows through when you're faced with adversity, and our kids were force fed some this week, but responded like champions tonight. If we want to make a run at the NCIC, we know we've got to run the table because you can't expect Rock Falls to lose more than one game, so tonight we took that first step.

Ben Howland

Obviously, we don't have the depth we'd like. Everybody has to do a little more when you face adversity.

Preston Wilson

Of course, the last-place team went through adversity, too.

Joe Sakic

No one has given up this year, even when we've faced adversity. Guys are filling in and doing the job.

J. J. Johnson

One thing we talked about is being an inexperienced team, when you get adversity, everybody's got to come together and pick it up. I think when they saw Laura go down, who's one of our tougher kids, the kids had a little bit of an emotional letdown.

Clint Hurdle

More can be learned from adversity than when everything good happens. They realize they were short in areas, went down to (Class AAA) Colorado Springs, addressed the shortcomings and came back.

Steve Sampson

Let's put it this way France '98 was half a decade ago - it's ancient history as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on.

Niccolo Machiavelli

May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time

Richard Preston

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Doug Heiken

Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work implementing the Forest Plan, so at least minimal protections are in place for ancient forests, salmon, wildlife and clean drinking water.

Lyndon Johnson

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Thomas Day

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

John Ortberg

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

Marc Bolan

The prospect of being immortal doesn't excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.

Jim Tunney

We're not disappointed at all. We're excited Bode is there in the first place. We're still very proud of him.

Rob Jordan

Like everything else, you have success, and you like to be recognized for it. I don't know if it necessarily translates into anything on the field, but the kids are excited about it, and it's a neat experience.

Peter Cohan

Mainframes just don't get people excited any more.

Leslie Feist

Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Jimmie Johnson

Last year's experience showed me that so much can go on, ... There's no need to get too excited yet.

Stanley Asumnu

Last year, we weren't getting this many people to our games. We're excited that the fans are happy, so we're just happy to give them something to see.

Larry Coker

Selfishly speaking, having Kirby is a tremendous lift for our football team. I'm probably more excited about Kirby now than maybe I've ever been.

Philippe Perrin

So, I thought it was very interesting, very challenging, and I personally like being challenged. So, I overall, I was more excited than anything else.

John Carney

We feel an obligation to the people of the Gulf Coast, ... We're representing the fortitude and perseverance and strength of those people who are trying to piece their lives back together.

James Sheridan

Jack was scrappy. He didn't stop and wrestled a hard-nosed match. He showed a lot of intestinal fortitude today.

Chuck Driesell

We looked strong in the first half. We just didn't have the stamina or the fortitude to get stops when we needed them in the second half.

Chucky Atkins

It got close. They kept fighting. That's the kind of test we need going into the playoffs. When we're (in a playoff game) and a team comes back and gets hot, we need to know who has the fortitude to step up and answer.

Karim Meghji

At the end of the day, downloading software was a task that takes time and fortitude from consumers.

George Eliot

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Joseph Campbell

Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

Rob Cohen

I think there's a love of infamy and heroism that doesn't play into the zeitgeist,

Nic Buchanan

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.

Deena Burnett

The transcript really doesn't give you a sense of the heroism on that flight. I would like to have (the tape) released.

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Harry Anderson

This is another blow. But we're actually walking a little taller because of the heroism at some of our hospitals.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....

Nelson Mandela

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

Mayor Lederer

Never in my lifetime have I seen this much activity.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Donna Nelson

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Philippe Petit

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

Oscar Wilde

To love yourself is the start of a lifetime romance.

Charlize Theron

I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.

Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

bell hooks

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Chris Evans

should be able to make up their own minds about what they view.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Tomas Berdych

I don't know what my mindset is. I don't always understand what my motivations are,

David Zayas

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

LeBron James

We have a lot better mindset this year. I feel that I am a lot better. I know what it takes down the stretch.

Scott Olson

We want to keep that mindset going. They've performed admirably so far.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Winston Churchill

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Lincoln Steffens

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.

Andy Carter

Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.

Dennis Prager

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Phaedrus

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Adolf Hitler

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

Michael Sullivan

The reason they like them is they are outward forms,

Philip Kerr

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.

Kate Christensen

I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Calvin Coolidge

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Brendon Burchard

When you are congruent in your personal life, you will be congruent in your business life.

Ansel Adams

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

Aeschylus

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Eduardo Saverin

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Eddie Vedder

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Elizabeth Dole

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Tim DeBruycker

Rich told me before our tryouts he would qualify top three in varsity and he wasn't lying.

Georgy Yartsev

Our task was to come here and qualify for the quarter-finals. We did not do that so we were unsuccessful.

Clint Bowyer

You just go out and try to win the race, ... We'll just try not to qualify 30th anymore. I'm over that.

Annika Sorenstam

I don't think I'm going to try and qualify for the Open.

Maureen Heath

I've never seen it like this before. For this many teams to qualify for state ... I've never seen it quite like this. It's fantastic.

Brian Cashman

It's not my style to qualify where we are throughout the process, ... We'll keep talking until we get it done or not.

Dr. Woodcock

It seems like, to many of us, that tremendous opportunities are being wasted right now because trials are being done, and those trials could be used as vehicles to study and qualify biomarkers.

David Adams

It is rare to qualify for the waiver.

David Fay

How else could she qualify without winning an event?

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is. Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is, ... Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Humberto Cota

More tough luck, man. For Sean and for us. It's a big blow.

Gerald Anderson

Now our team is back to where we want it to be. We should have success like we were having at the start of the season when we were all healthy.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Dean Young

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

David Swift

My expectations are that we're going to have a very smooth process.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Cameron Johnson

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

Harold Vogel

He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.

Amanda Bynes

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Aftab Dada

Everything is going as smooth as could be.

Stephen Robinson

Thanks to the whole team for making this day super smooth and easy, as well historic.

Giselle Davies

The tests went very smoothly and there were no complaints.

Amy Lowell

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.

Rick Gales

We're able to just make more trips during the day. It's the big storms that get us into overtime.

Michael Chertoff

We've got tropical storms and hurricanes brewing in the ocean.

Joe McCormick

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company." ()

Paul Moreno

Winter storms such as this are not unheard of but this one was severe.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Rich Alday

So far, we've had a lot of success pitching, offensively, defensively, and as a team. Hopefully, we'll make that continue.

Susan Hayward

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.

Tucker Max

There is no number or level of success that would make me think, 'Wow, I didn't think that was possible.'

Dick Wolf

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dennis Ritchie

C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group

Dennis Green

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Deana Carter

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.