Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Nee

We have to get help for McAllister. We need more offense from someone else on the floor. It can't be McAllister carrying us on his shoulders. We need all the other players to get more consistent.

Yasser Arafat

We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one alternative: to carry on with the peace process. This is our strategic target.

Italian Proverb

When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own

Mark Teixeira

When he gets hot, he can carry a team for a long time.

Susan Glisson

We want participation from each of the 11 states in the original Confederacy. We invite all those committed to carrying the South out of the dark past of racial violence and conflict, away from fear and segregation and impoverishing lifestyles to share this journey with us.

Robert Gleitz

The extension of the federal wind-energy production tax credit in 2005 helped trigger the record-breaking year and provided momentum that will carry over through 2007.

Sharon Stone

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Tracy Morgan

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Maha Muna

Ultimately we know it's the government that is responsible for ensuring protection in IDP situations. Our challenge now is to figure out how to support those mechanisms to carry out their mandates.

Long Nguyen

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Bill Brady

We've seen these long-term outlooks a lot more of late, and for the life of me I can't figure out why these companies are doing it.

Karsten Keunecke

We've seen hazelnut prices peak at $11-12 a kilo (9-10 euros), from $2-3 a kilo. That's not an evolution, that's a revolution, and for companies producing products with high hazelnut content, that's a real disaster.

Nancy Alderman

We've seen companies reduce their pollution because of this.

Allen Bailey

We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross over. We turned them down. Instead, we are taking the cross with us.

Abheek Barua

The fact that price pressures are muted suggests that earnings growth of Indian companies will continue to be driven by volume growth, not by pricing power.

Tyson Slocum

The fact that oil companies are enjoying record profits when consumers are paying record high prices does not sit well with people.

Ed Jensen

... The fact that middle managers think their companies are mismanaged is particularly alarming.

Steve Levy

The creation of these sites is akin to the government aiding and abetting an illegal underground economy that puts legitimate companies out of business.

Jacques Rogge

We have no doubt that BOCOG will deliver in a splendid way.

Jim Kelly

We have refocused the organization on delivering more to the membership. Today we are less about being an engine for revenue for events and more about increased value for our members through services that respond to our members' needs.

Rick Adams

We use him as a role model to deliver socially responsible messages to children, ... We take him just about every place we go.

Ashwin Sanghi

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Webb Brown

We know we have good Montana products here that can be delivered all over the world. We're now trying to provide the resources and the direction, even the philosophy of 'trade or die.' If we just keep passing around the same dollar here, it will wear out.

Dave Brailsford

UK Sport and the government have delivered and there can be no excuses now. There are not many nations in the world that have the same backing. It's scary because all the obstacles have been removed and there is nothing for us to hide behind.

John Jacobs

We are hearing some pretty good news, but we have to take a wait-and-see stance and see if they deliver when they report.

Charles Jr

We did not deliver in the fourth quarter and that was unacceptable.

Dominique Moisi

The one who has perhaps gained the most is the prime minister, who stood for the state and managed to deliver a message of firmness together with a message of openness to society.

Charles Spurgeon

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

Alan Bennett

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

Randy Teeney

When we got it in sight of the boat, HOLY SMOKES! It's a big halibut.

Ayad Allawi

leave the holy sites quickly, lay down their weapons and return to the rule of order and law.

James E. Faust

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

Henry B. Eyring

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Arlo Guthrie

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

William Shakespeare

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

D. H. Lawrence

Too much of the humble Willy wet-leg / And the holy can't-help-it touch.

Charles Simmons

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Lee Siegel

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

Dick Bennett

I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.

Peter Capaldi

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Jon Adler

We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Allison Williams

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Dave Greenberg

We're competitive now. We struggle to score. That's why every possession is so valuable to us.

John C. Calhoun

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Charlemagne

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Garfield Ewings

We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Kate Winslet

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

Cindy Morgan

The geeks shall inherit the earth - I've always said that.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Acquaint thyself with God.

Edgar Allan Poe

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Cornelia Funke

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

Bible Bible

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Thomas Browne

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Charlotte Bronte

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

Azim Premji

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Brandon Cox

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

David Allen

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

David Cross

Maybe if you live in Brooklyn, you don't need to hear that? But please, trust me, in most of America, they do need to hear it. And they're quite thankful that somebody came out and did it. For an hour and a half in that theater, for once, they're in the majority.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Jane Austen

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino

Vanity: my favorite sin.

Cherie Lunghi

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Charlotte Bronte

Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.

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

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Djuna Barnes

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Dave Gorman

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

Dave Barry

Someone was tapping on the window.