Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

King Abdullah

Madness and evil. It is the work of the devil, ... Such acts cannot be perpetrated by any individual who has a sense of decency or humanity or justice or faith.

Susan Hill

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Nicole Hastings

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Judy Gold

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Bill Stokes

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Adnan Pachachi

Many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion, believes that there should be a determined effort to see whether in fact that elections are feasible,

James Gunn

Sean says he always had a feeling he should remain friends with Jenna and he never knew why. He believes it's because he knew we were meant to be together.

John Ullyot

Senator Warner believes that the decision of whether to keep Secretary Rumsfeld is up to the president.

Ron Bonjean

Sen. Lott believes this is an effort to open a dialogue on the serious issues of race, diversity and opportunity between Americans. This will be an ongoing effort.

Joan Hickson

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Jason Kello

Mr. Foley believes ... the trigger for the investigation should be whether a party to the transaction is a foreign government.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Fitzgerald has affirmed to me that he has made no charging decisions, that he believes Karl continues to cooperate fully with the investigation, but beyond that, I don't want to comment at all about any communications with Mr. Fitzgerald's office.

Chris Flood

Mr. Burwell wanted to go on with his life. He believes that the government now realizes the small part that he played in El Paso's reporting practices.

Eileen collins

Looks like I might have some cleaning up to do when I get home.

Tom Aldrich

Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria.

Liu Peng

Securing a clean National Games is the most important factor of a successful Games, ... We will do more tests before and during the Games, and we will conduct tests on Human Growth Hormone (HGH) for the first time in our history of National Games.

Hildegarde Heymann

Soft drinks are very acidic. When I was a child, I remember my parents using Coke to clean out a radiator.

Steve Smith

One week you're playing, and the next one team is cleaning out lockers and going home.

Sam Worthington

My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

Javier Solana

Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground,

Margaret Cobb

Now we're going to use the time to clean up the fit and finish of the product and ensure the maximum compatibility and reliability between now and our final release.

Ron Wyden

Now, the supposed justifications for restart have completely evaporated and the funds that are being wasted will go where they have long belonged: into cleaning up the environment that adjoins our lifeblood, the Columbia River, ... After years of indecision, the people of the Pacific Northwest deserve to have the money used to clean up the contamination at Hanford rather than on some wild good chase.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

John Bailey

My instinct is that it is deeply learned sitting at the table listening to one's parents. Police are there to be avoided.

Edgar Winter

My favorite songs are those that are most deeply personal and emotional for me, and they include the love songs that I've written for Monique.

Harry Whittington

My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney has had to go through this past week.

William Tucker

My family and I are deeply and profoundly thankful for the honor and recognition of my wife's lifelong work. After all of her efforts to make the nation and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a better place to live, this is a deserving tribute. As her husband, I know that she was one of the greatest women that God ever gave to this planet.

Jim Calhoun

Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Rig Veda

One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.

Jay Nixon

I can't say enough about the tremendous work the Missouri National Guard has done as part of our military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries.

Saddam Hussein

found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.

Shelby Steele

From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals.

Bill Edwards

If all we did was say we'll raise the grading scale that would've been a silly thing to do, but in conjunction with other efforts to help them be successful, this is a wise move on our part.

Neena Moorjani

Ontario's announcement complicates our efforts to reach a long-term negotiated solution to the softwood lumber dispute.

Doug Stoffel

Because of the efforts the players needed a little kick in the pants after the match. Hopefully it woke them up a bit.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Jim Pitts

I'm also working with the governor to stop illegal immigration and improve Medicaid. Working together we will find other sources.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

William O'Neill

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Kenko Yoshida

Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Dennis Prager

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done...

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Deepak Chopra

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Alan Cohen

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Danielle Brooks

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

Meredith Whitney

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Marty Dickens

There is nothing we can find that supports what they're doing. It's very puzzling.

Jaime Pressly

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

Cindy Sheehan

supports the troops, our country, and our President.

Kweisi Mfume

supports a person's right to do whatever they feel they must do. If that is boycotting or informational picketing, we support that.