Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Praveen Khandelwal

Our movement shows what people, united for a common cause, can do even without the support of political parties.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

William Teague

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Michelle Thomas

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Jaipal Reddy

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Arthur Doyle

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Ron Logan

Right now the competition is such that zero fee in the first year is the most common thing you'll see.

John Anderson

People need to be prepared to embrace recycling, including for potable purposes.

Rob Portman

Our talks today were frank, constructive and embraced the spirit of President Bush's challenge,

Joe Klein

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.

Jeff Blauser

I still look at him as a player, so it was nice to see what he's been able to come in here and do. My hope is that our regulars here will watch, embrace and learn everything they can from him while he's here.

Greg Harrison

I think raves are being embraced because ... it's a very interactive experience,

Chris Van Allsburg

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

Jennifer Connelly

I am a huge fan of personal hygiene, so I embrace water,

Simon Spurr

I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Cammi Granato

Man or woman, Cammi Granato is one of the most impressive hockey leaders I've ever come across.

Chad Hedrick

I watched the ice hockey and never even glanced at the speed skating.

Dickie Moore

I think I'm just starting hockey again, I'm so nervous. It's a nerve-wracking position, really, to be honored in such a manner.

Paul Taibi

I think he has the potential of playing junior hockey somewhere. If he has a strong playoff performance, he can open some eyes.

Bob Nicholson

I still want to stay in the sport on the hockey side -- that's my passion and where my strengths lie.

Brian Burke

I couldn't sell this as a stand-alone hockey deal, and I wouldn't try,

Jerry Sullivan

He did everything he could to get hockey going at every level.

Stephen Jarislowsky

I find it scandalous. Even a hockey player doesn't get that kind of money sometimes. Compensation should be lined up with results. How can you get compensation if you didn't do the work?

Jackie Barto

I feel like the message we want to send is that we're going to be moving up the standings board. Going into Wisconsin and playing 120 minutes of solid hockey is our goal. We want to go out and get some league points this weekend.

Dan Gelber

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Joschka Fischer

For me this is the end of a period of my life lasting 20 years, and a new beginning.

Deepak Chopra

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Elijah Cummings

Since 1987, the month of March has been designated to give special prominence to the women who have made lasting contributions to our society.

Benjamin Netanyahu

lead to a real peace, a lasting peace, not a minute-long peace.

Latin Proverb

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

Dale Carnegie

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Jane Goodall

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Jonathan Swift

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after

Jason Ward

Our numbers are down this year. We used to get around 350 players but this year we only had 96 players that signed up. That's partly because some had to work and also a lot of our youth leave each year. We also lost a lot of our women to Monday night women's hockey.

Ron Redmond

People leave or try to leave regularly in a situation like Iraq's where the security situation is deteriorating and increasingly violent.

Danny Daniels

Some of us come from the streets, some of us ain't had no jobs, ... So, that means some of us hustled. And some of us feel that, 'What are we going to do right now? What should we do from here?' They don't want to turn back to the streets, but when they leave a man without nothing to do, that's his next option.

Richard Branson

Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.

Michael Jackson

Please, no! You have to give us some privacy. Please, you have to understand his position, he is with his kids... you need to leave us alone.

Sami Hassoun

Please leave him, for the sake of God, for the sake of his mom and dad.

Deron Williams

We needed a win. We're trying to leave this road trip 2-2. We didn't do too well in the state of Florida.

Pat Binns

Well ah, hah, I'll have to leave that to see what really happens,

Brian Ballard

I think his legacy is pretty well assured.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Bob Harlan

I don't think his legacy will ever shrink.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Al Davis

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Terry Belanger

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Eduardo Paes

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Gary Arnold

When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of the entertainment, so it kind of reinforces the legacy of people of short stature being used in entertainment.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Personally, I love Toronto.

Ed Belfour

I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

Dave Foley

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

Jeffery Deaver

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

Griffin Dunne

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

Mike Myers

I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

Madonna Ciccone

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

Eric Roberts

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

David Hall

No. I don't know how to get in touch with them now. I do know that some of them were wounded in the same battle.

Frank Iero

When the water touched my balls, that's when I got scared.

Carlos Emmons

We'd look at film and see linebackers not get touched and they would get praised, ... And I was like 'Hey, we don't get touched, I'll make every play.'

Joe Royle

Wycombe have been in touch and Aidan is going down there to have a look around the place and train with them.