Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

David Liebersbach

Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.

Romeo Travis

Last year, we got pounded on the boards. That was the emphasis from everybody on this team, from top to bottom.

Jim Matheson

Never before in the history of sports has there been such an emphasis on public safety,

John King

Newer products are landing this month and it will really be the second half before we start to see an emphasis on improvement in home performance.

Larry Coker

I can't put too much emphasis on the positive of a football game. But it is a good diversion.

Ned Yost

If we put a lot of stress and emphasis on it, then, at times, it gets into your head a little bit.

Ned Yost

If we put a lot of stress and emphasis on it, it will probably get in his head a little. But it's not a problem. It's not a concern. We'll keep working through it.

Brad Hopkins

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,

Shari Sebbens

I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

H. Hunt

If we can take anything away from this, it's that we recognize the importance of flood-control projects that we don't necessarily think about every day.

Olivia Culpo

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

Henry Hyde

We are not delegates who are sent here to weigh our mail every day and then to vote accordingly. There are issue of transcendent importance that you have to be willing to lose your office over ... I'm willing to lose my seat any day in the week rather than sell out.

John Prendergast

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Jared Borgetti

We know it will be of secondary importance to Brazil-Argentina, but we'll be approaching it with the seriousness it deserves.

Maria Cantwell

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Mahmud Abbas

Much work still needs to be done but nothing can take away from this victory, ... day of joy.

Neal Cohen

Much work needs to be done in this area.

Jon Moore

No! No! ... That's my son. He needs to come with me. Let him come with me.

Ken Hoyt

My 97-year-old grandmother needs to be able to open this.

Suki Waterhouse

My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that 'day after' texture.

Bennie Thompson

needs to go talk to some of the people I'm talking to.

Cedrick Wilson

needs to get in the end zone before the season begins.

George Edwards

needs a narrative, a reason that voters should give him a look.

Chris Crutcher

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

ASAP Ferg

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

Ludwig von Mises

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Diane Kruger

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Dennis Prager

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!