Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Morrissey

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Hu Jintao

The CPC always cherishes the traditional friendship between China and the DPRK and has set it as a consistent policy to continuously strengthen and develop the China-DPRK friendship,

Brittany Murphy

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

Sherry Argov

Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the 'man' in the relationship.

Shashi Tharoor

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

Alfred Whitehead

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Jeff Mushaluk

If anything, I look at it as five games and take them one at a time. Really, our season comes down to these last five games, so we have to cherish these moments and look at it as an opportunity.

Ray Rice

Just stay consistent. That's my goal. And not going backward. I think you get looked upon even more when you're very consistent. I think looking back on last year it's something you can cherish and that's something special.

Julian Peterson

Last week, it all started to click. It's a possibility (leaving) could happen. I'm just going to cherish the moment like I normally do, and just go out there and play like it is my last time.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Lili Simmons

I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.

Bob Watson

Yeah, I saw some things, I heard some things, ... But I dealt with them, and that's it.

Joseph Rotblat

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Craig Evans

She was a little hesitant at first. But after she saw it, she liked it. She liked that it dealt with family values and kids.

L.K. Advani

Some MLAs may have personal differences. But all differences should be dealt with amicably within the party framework.

Stephen Barrett

should be dealt with individually under medical supervision.

Henry Fielding

Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

George Roosevelt

We dealt with his family members and were able to have him turn himself into the police department.

David Nail

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

Marisa Miller

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.

Noah Gray-Cabey

I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much.

Ed Helms

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

Peter Warrick

We like being the underdogs. Whether we're the favorites or they're the favorites, we still have to go out and play like we're the underdogs.

Tom Watson

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

Elaine Youngs

We won't be the favorites because Kerry and Misty are still the No. 1 team. But I hope we're some of the fans' favorites.

Charles Stross

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Alan Pardew

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

Shut your noise, you old c***!

Alan Page

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Alan Page

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Alan Hansen

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

Alan Hansen

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

Alan Green

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

Alan Green

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Dan Rooney

Uh, well I guess it's you and me.

Cliff Politte

We've all been telling a lot of jokes. I guess we'll all get half a (playoff) share and half a ring. We won't be in the team picture.

Denise Roberts

When he got well, I said, 'Well, I guess it's not too late,'

Brandy Norwood

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Carlos Asilis

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Larry Brown

We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.

John Glenn

Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,

Luke Lanno

Three times we wrestled. I guess they were one wrestler better than us.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Spencer Roecker

We knew they were very athletic, but they weren't hitting their jump shots in the first half.

Kelly Hawthorne

We know if we pass it out they can hit the shots.

Jim Tracy

We know he's very capable. He has the pitches to get major-league hitters out.

Dave Murray

We are positioning ourselves to hit every potential Internet segment out there.

Roderick Wilmont

We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.

Michael Redd

We struggled. We had a lot of open looks, but it wasn't our night to hit them. We just never got in a rhythm from the three-point line. But once again, we try not to live by that.

A. Hodge

We stopped at the stoplight and he just hit me.

Craig Gibson

We started off slow offensively, but we made some adjustments. I'm really proud of the way we hit the ball. We didn't panic. Once we got going, it was sort of contagious.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Tony Agnone

We feel at this point that John isn't going to be back in New York.

John Hughes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Les Claypool

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Joker Phillips

We've seen a different John Logan this week. He practiced like he knew he was going to play, which is good, because we need him.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charles de Lint

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

Charles Dickens

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles de Gaulle

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Charles de Lint

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

Charles de Lint

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles de Lint

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

Charles de Lint

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Kiki Chesterton

We've got a very multi-diverse attack. I have seven players at the restraining line, and all seven can put it in the net. We got some sick shooters.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Brett Favre

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Dwight Freeman

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

Mike Carey

We're just not comfortable with our go-to players in the stretch.

Pat Gillick

We're getting better. We have players who are pretty focused.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Rick Ochoa

I think the weather you're seeing in Texas is very unusual. You would have to go back to the '50s to see the kind of dryness you're seeing. I don't think we've seen anything like this in a generation.

Lorne Michaels

I think you're seeing the wave of the future.

Woody Williams

When he's seeing everything good, there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Charles Dickens

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

Alan Watts

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Don Cheadle

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

David Miliband

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Dave Barry

Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?” “We’re going to look for water,” said Alf. “And food?” said Tubby Ted. “Water first,” said Alf. “We can go days without food.” “We can what?” Tubby Ted shouted.

Dave Barry

Turbulence: This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, "Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence." Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water buffalo organs off the windshield.

Dave Barry

I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.

Charles Tillman

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Charles Caleb Colton

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Charles Caleb Colton

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Dickens

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Charles Dickens

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.