Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Richard P. Feynman

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

Mahmoud Abbas

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

Sorin Cerin

Man is nothing else than en eternal maker of divinity, where every sentiment he has becomes a possible saint or angel, prophet or demon, depending on the changes that sentiment undergoes.

Tim Whitehead

Like any good goalie, it becomes more difficult to make saves if you take his eyes away on screens and get to the net on second and third shots.

Nicole Holofcener

Like any good actor, Jennifer just becomes this other person.

Stacey Charter

Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.

Christina Sweden

Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.

Paul Carrington

Losing is very contagious. When you fall into a streak like we've done, it becomes very easy for you to just want to go through the motions. Right now, we're not doing that. But I think it's necessary for us to get a victory soon to show ourselves that we can be a successful team. Once we get one, I believe, then more and more wins will come.

Rhea Perlman

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Tracy Morgan

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

Gallagher

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Don Rickles

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Frank Caliendo

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

Jeff Ross

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

William Williams

Life is valuable -- when completed by the imagination. And then only.

Kris Mayes

Legislators will debate the issue of how much the program should be funded. So we're waiting for the funding process to be completed and we just don't know when that will actually occur.

Quentin Crisp

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Sathya Baba

Love is essential to become a complete human being.

Rajendra Dahal

Last year there were many who welcomed the king's move. But now the same people are opposing the king's government. It's a complete turnaround.

Preston Burch

Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters, I do know that at the end of the day, when the process was completed and the transaction was approved, homeland security questions were resolved.

Jeff Lemire

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Mahmud Abbas

So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident.

David Johnson

Letting it spiral out of control is a public-relations nightmare. They should have done damage control. For an administration known for its rapid responses and e-mails, this one looks like they were tone deaf.

Joel Walton

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty good defensive plays and it allows us to go in and control play from start to finish.

Ben Bernanke

Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.

Julie Roberts

Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it very fast but we worked hard to settle that down and we won it in the goal circle.

Cathy Nelson

Lebanon controlled the match, was putting us on our heels. We couldn't stop them.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Pink Floyd

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

John Myers

Security has to be obvious and send a no-nonsense message that this is a controlled zone that is under surveillance. You want people to know that it's not an easy target.

Sathya Baba

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Amy Ziff

Last year was a massive year for holiday travel. The summer kept going in that direction, and we have the same expectation for this year despite fuel costs. If you wait until November, I think you run the risk of not getting what you want or paying a whole lot more to get what you want.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Stephen Brobeck

Net wealth hardly grew despite a substantial rise in house values.

Mike Walsh

Mo seems to have fared well despite his ordeal and is expected to fully recover,

David Sidwell

Morgan Stanley had a great quarter. This was accomplished despite everything the firm has been through.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously it negates the theory about Dow 1,000. What (the new milestone) tells us is people have a lot of confidence. Money is still flowing into the United States despite some question marks about inflation. Nothing has changed.

Kathy Giusti

Despite the fact that one in every two men and one in every three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, no one ever expects it to happen to them. I surely didn't. I was an otherwise healthy 37-year-old when I was diagnosed in 1996 with multiple myeloma, the same rare cancer Tom Brokaw has.

Christie Hefner

Newsstand sales for our flagship magazine rose in the first half of the year despite a very difficult market that resulted in many of our competitors reporting year-over-year declines.

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.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Iris Krebber

Much too much time has already been lost. In mid-2004 we already saw the first signs of a serious drought.

Pat Cleland

Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.

Craig Schlanger

Of course, no one saw him do this, no one is saying they saw him do it.

Joshua Michael Stern

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Donna Smith

I can't live over water. I can't swim. I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Dominic Monaghan

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Aaron Carter

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

E. B. White

I wish they had stuff like this when I was little.

Troy Williamson

I feel pretty good. There's still a lot of stuff that I need to work on. I'm just trying to get better as I go along.

Chad Cordero

I did stuff I thought I'd never do, ... It was totally unexpected.

Kevin Federline

I don't know. Why does all that stuff come out?

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

Abdul Kalam

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

David Morse

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Bill Gates

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Denise Bierly

If we can get 20 wins with this type of young team, I think we'll look back at the year as a real achievement.

Carl Dodd

I don't know what type of person she is.

Megan Fox

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I was the class clown type of guy.

Karin Slaughter

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.