Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Gonzalez

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Stephen Harper

We have no alternative but to accept the checks; they're part of our system.

Alpha Konare

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Geoff Hoon

We want Saddam to accept the will of the international community,

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

Carlos Ghosn

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

S. Walker

We have to get better in the mental aspects of the game, ... That's true for both the pitchers and hitters. The pitchers can't be giving up hits on 0-2 counts like we have, and the hitters have to find a way to get the runner over when he's on second with no outs.

Brian Rector

When everyone is gunning for you, you must be doing something right. Athletics is one aspect that everyone in the school and community seems to rally around and take pride in.

Henry Selick

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

Lisa Bridges

We want feedback from all those who our closely involved in every aspect of the process of educating our children. As a board, we felt it was best for us to hand deliver the surveys so that they know their input is both wanted and needed.

Cindy Anderson

We were beat in every aspect of the game, rebounding especially. We gave them three and four shots on several possessions and you can't be successful when you let that happen. The fact that we couldn't buy a basket didn't help either.

Andy Robinson

We were awful. We performed poorly in all aspects of the game. It was all about silencing the crowd. But we either kicked poorly or knocked the ball on.

Tina Slinker

We were aware of some of Erika's problems, but not all of them. The most important aspect of our decision to recruit her was we had her in summer camp for several years and got to know her and her family.

Valerie Cranford

We have riders from all aspects of the community.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Eric Lewis

I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.

Michael Fishman

We are practical people who will endorse people who work for working people - whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Donald Allen

We're here to endorse the plan of Kevin Helfer. We've read the plan, we like the plan and that's why we're here.

David Dinges

My sense is that planned, permitted, endorsed napping by management is still rare.

Ray Zaborney

Obviously, it looks good now, but we're going to keep working until Lynn Swann is the endorsed candidate.

Michael Chertoff

From my own experience, I don't endorse those views,

David Coverdale

I can't endorse Napster because I'm a professional musician, but Napster did give me the idea that I can give something back to my supporters.

Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

Joe King

Fifty-one percent of the people didn't endorse him in the primary, and we're going to join them now,

Brandon Williams

We've still got our invitation to the party, but we don't know what party we're going to yet. This is a very big game. We prepared like it was a big game. Now, every week has to be like this.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky

The pope has a standing invitation and in no way has it been canceled.

Julien Letellier

When we have the new site, we send an invitation to our other readers. Each time we launch a new one, our other readers have interest.

Steve Hildebrand

Many will speculate that this signifies that Tom is thinking about running for president, when in fact, that is not what this invitation is all about.

Heinz Kramer

But such an invitation and such a stand leads to irritations with the EU.

Jack Valenti

When people make up invitation lists, they are in the top 10.

Ismail Haniya

We have received an invitation to travel shortly to Russia.

Ismail Haniya

If we receive an official invitation to visit Russia, we will visit Russia.

Mickey Tettleton

As long as they put the invitation in the mail (I'll be here).

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Carl Andre

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

Sharon Stone

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

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

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....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Augusten Burroughs

but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

John Rentoul

But that's not to say it's not sincere as well.

Thomas Jefferson

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Michelle Shocked

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Confucius

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Brian Tracy

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Delta Burke

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

April Masini

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

George Muller

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Blake Mycoskie

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

William Zinsser

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.