Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.

William Cowper

I was bred to the law, a profession to which I was never much inclined, and in which I engaged, rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father, than because I had any hope of success in it myself.

William Hastie

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Heather Brooke

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.

Jack Hanna

We have a little armadillo named David now. It's a true story - they bred right on his desk.

Hugh Wirth

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast,

William Congreve

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a son? A thing begot / Within a pair of minutes, thereabouts, / A lump bred up in darkness.

Trevor Hoffman

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

Mark LaTurner

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Gene Rasmussen

Rebounding and second chance opportunities were a big key for us.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

Jose Maria

Real Madrid created their chances and we couldn't have done anymore. I had the feeling we were going to be struck by an avalanche,

Li Zhi

Regulators have picked out two points this year: encouraging fund inflow to the market and revving up studies of new derivative products. The index has a good chance to test 1,300 this week.

John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

Dragan Cavic

Our positions are considerably different. We shall see today whether there is a chance for creating a middle ground.

John Bunting

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

Rick Cornett

Regardless of who we were going to play against, we were going to play strong and were determined to play well down there.

Robert Mckain

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mark Wilde

Steve Rogel is a very determined individual. He's got a big checkbook and he's not going away.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jay Marston

Our players have been making things happen. Today it was Kaila Burns. She was determined to keep the inning alive.

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will in large part be determined by how we do right here in the heartland of America,

Evan Bayh

Our success as a party will be determined largely by how well we do here,

Mary Wittenberg

Our women showed how gutsy, determined and talented they are,

Larry Sabato

I think they have to do something prior to November 2006, to show they understand they have overspent and are determined to do something about it.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Ken Dunn

Parts of the roofs were peeled back like sardine cans. Fortunately, those sections were not over occupied stalls. And, fortunately, no one was in the horse trailer when it was squashed.

Barry McCaffrey

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

Bill Shoemaker

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

C. S. Lewis

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.

C. S. Lewis

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

Bill Bryson

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

Bill Bryson

There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.

Bernadette Devlin

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Arrigo Sacchi

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Shinichi Fukae

I will try to win three times. I love Kentucky Lake, and Lake Champlain, also.

J. Hoover

I could sense all week that they were ready. They were like a Kentucky thoroughbred. They knew what was there.

Stan Heath

Kentucky is starting to play at the level everyone thought that they could play.

Greg Gilchrist

He will not be in the Kentucky Derby.

Bob Holthus

He doesn't have to win this to go to the Kentucky Derby, but you would like to go there on a winning note, that's for sure.

Joni Comstock

Western Kentucky really didn't have the strength of schedule we really were looking for.

Seth Benzel

This sets him up nicely for the Wood, if that's what Todd wants to do. It's always nice to come back with a win, but leading up to the Kentucky Derby, a win isn't always the most important thing.

Daniel Boone

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Daniel Boone

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Connor Franta

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

Ron Gardenhire

Have you watched us bunt? Does it look like we have it down now?

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Virat Kohli

'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

Ted Sarandos

Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

Cristela Alonzo

I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.