Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Stoiber

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

James Meeks

We applaud him because his statement was swift, it was responsible, and it was contrite, ... We accepted the contrition and the spirit behind it and our board, in our session, unanimously accepted this statement as well as accepted Rev. Jackson's apology.

Eddie Thompson

We've all be impressed with the way Gordon has conducted himself. I'm delighted he has accepted the manager's job.

Barry Hyman

We've accepted the fact that the earnings growth for the quarter is around 20, 21 percent year-over-year for the S&P. But there's been this behind the scenes look or under the surface look at revenue. And we haven't got the best of forecasts for the second half of the year in many companies going forward. And if you don't have that pristine look -- where you come in this earnings season totally clean -- you've gotten battered. And I can't even name more than a handful of stocks that have come through.

Mitchell Rhodes

We are a discipleship school, not an evangelistic school. For a student to enroll here, the parents and the kids both have to have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.

Martin Jacques

Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

Steve Pederson

We appreciate the fact that they have accepted coach Callahan's explanation of this gesture. We also recognize that any kind of gesture is not in character either with coach Callahan or our program.

Hanan Ashrawi

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

Lewis Platt

We accepted his decision with sadness, but also with the knowledge that changes needed to be made. The board is confident that the new leadership will bring a renewed focus on execution and performance.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Peter Power

We are at a loss to understand why Norway has chosen to go down this particular route.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated. I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

John Greenwood

We're frustrated, ... I think they've chosen to play hardball and it's unfortunate.

Kari Matchett

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Kate Winslet

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Justice Theodore

The potential danger to the continued existence of the union rests with the adjudication of these fines.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The perfect man in Eden therefore was rich, and such riches he might have possessed forever had he continued obedient to his Creator.

Nick Griffin

We are pleased to see continued growth in the Hawaii financial services industry.

Henning Kagermann

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

Hoshiyar Zebari

We are at a crucial period now and we need their continued engagement.

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

Phil Drosdick

We accomplished our goal this season, which was getting to the state tournament. I'm proud of that. These kids worked really hard this season, and we continued to improve all season.

Augusten Burroughs

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

Alfred P. Sloan

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Andrew Weil

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

Corrie Brown

We made the diagnosis and the farmer went home with vaccines for his flock. So I like to think we did a very important thing.

Nancy Murphy

He drives, he gardens, he sees friends and family. We're lucky he had early diagnosis and got early treatment to stave it off.

David McMillan

If that's the case, the earlier we can do it after diagnosis the better.

Gary Small

This suggests the technology may be useful in early diagnosis and in tracking people over time.

Kevin Williams

We thought it was just maybe he, something with his back or something that could be cured, something that he could you know just nurse for a while and then he'd be OK . He could go back to work. So it's pretty devastating to get such a diagnosis as ALS,

Keith Dugger

We don't have a diagnosis at this time except for the stomach discomfort.

Jim Nicholson

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Rick Dickson

We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.

Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Baltasar Gracian

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Sharon Stone

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Charles Spurgeon

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

Charles Spurgeon

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

Maria Shriver

When I look in the mirror, I don't just see a first lady, I don't just see a Kennedy or a Schwarzenegger, I don't just see a mother, a daughter, a wife, a sister and a friend, and thank God, I don't see Warren Beatty.

Tamara Feldman

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tina Brown

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.

Melissa Wagoner

Sen. Kennedy spoke to Sen. Stevens in support of this provision.

Stephanie Cutter

Senator Kennedy has been waiting for the right invitation.

Emo Philips

You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!

Jackie Kennedy

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.

George Smathers

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy was very sensitive to this question of ever using nuclear weapons,

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Xavier Niel

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Carl Reiner

We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

Christopher Brown

What Larry can get back, ... is his reputation.

Lou Dawkins

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Shai Agassi

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Phil Jackson

Larry has been in this situation many more times than I have, ... It is very unique for me.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Kenny Perry

We're just going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Marcello Canuto

Site Q was proposed to be in one place, then in another place. There were all these candidates, but none of them really panned out.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.