Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Recent rises in yields of Japanese government bonds, combined with this emerging uncertainty over prospects for US interest rates, are expected to weigh on the US currency against the yen in the near term.

Martin Laurendeau

Recently, we have played very well against Mexico. We will work hard over the next two months to prepare for this contest and give ourselves the best chance to win.

Navneet Munot

Reliance Communication is among the largest players and there is definitely space for at least three big players in the booming mobile-phone industry. The listing will certainly give us more choice.

Stuart Rothenberg

President Bush's poll numbers are already pretty bad, and there has been some concern among people about the long vacation while there is a perception that things aren't going so well. I hate to say it, but some of the role a leader plays after a disaster is public relations.

Charles Hazlewood

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

Juan Fernandez

Participating in this contest was a great experience. It is an honor to rank among the top college Christian radio Web designers in the U.S..

Christopher Bond

Parochialism, poor information architectures, and bureaucratic confusion should not be included amongst the reasons to squirrel away intelligence that we need by cognizant analysts throughout the community.

John Hunt Morgan

Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

Ken Burk

Our New York office will be a strategic hub for serving our vast and rapidly accelerating East Coast customer base. As consumers embrace online retail, demand for our solutions among mid-market companies continues to grow unabated. Our customers not only benefit from our innovative technology and productized best-practices; they also get an e-commerce platform that can be customized on the fly by marketing, rather than IT, and one that flexes to accommodate growth and seasonal spikes in demand.

Ken Dixon

Our New York customers are among the most demanding and tech savvy in the nation and, while other wireless carriers play catch-up, we will continue to deliver the reliable and innovative services our customers demand. In 2006, we'll continue to focus on the fundamentals of our business -- providing the best network, superior customer service and advanced, innovative products and services -- day in and day out, one customer at a time.

George Ellis

Our mines are among the safest in the country, so we are not operating from the perspective of having to do something precipitous.

William Cowper

Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made.

William Maxwell

Some cunning speculations on the state of the weather, the state of the nation, and the state of the crops, and we were bosom friends in a twinkling.

Jim Roddey

We're not close, we're not bosom buddies ... but I would hope he will find a way to extricate himself from these charges. But I suppose he'll get his hand slapped for something before it's all over.

Adam Mansbach

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

Noel Coward

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

William Blake

To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal EyesOf Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into EternityEver expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination.

Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

William Wordsworth

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

Fred Furth

Some of the braver ones did ask, and I'm going to prove Wal-Mart ignored their pleas to hire more help.

Russell Hawkins

I think he would have been so pleased, not just for himself but for the tribe and for his community. Bravery is a cultural value for us. Humility is a cultural value. So, in a way, it's kind of fitting because there's all these other soldiers who wanted him to have it.

Mike Healy

I was delighted that they were selected. It was a unanimous selection of the dinner committee. I think they're very deserving and exhibited tremendous compassion and bravery and initiative for what they did last spring in response to the tsunami disaster in their homeland of Sri Lanka.

Dan Rather

He had the looks of a leading man, ... He was a scholar and correspondent and he had the bravery of a knight.

Jewel

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your stregth to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery and you shall live a life oncommon.

Albert Pike

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Ann Turner

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

Victor LaValle

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Maya Angelou

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Our bravest and finest carried out what was the most successful urban evacuation in modern history,

Safra A. Catz

My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

Hebrew Proverb

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend

M. Wolfe

What he did for Chanel made fashion history and changed the direction of status brands. And his H&M deal was an extraordinary thing to do. He's the bravest of them all - he takes chances and they all seem to pay off.

Rick Brown

I must be the stupidest or the bravest guy you've seen today.

O. Henry

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Bill Shorten

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Cowher

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

Bill Cosby

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

C. S. Lewis

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Andy Emanuel

Our morale is still high. We enjoy each others' company, and that counts for a lot.

Mike Holmgren

Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.

African Proverb

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given

Wavell Hinds

It feels nice and it is a privilege to don the maroon outfit in such a great milestone game and I hope I can take heart from the experience of such an opportunity and make every game that counts after a meaningful one.

Mark Teague

It counts down the time until the steady don't walk comes up. This is another way for people crossing the road to know how much time they have.

Chuck Hagel

John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.

Alessandro Piero

I don't have anything to prove. I don't think I will be judged by this game. I'm hoping the rest of the season counts more, mostly the league.

Ron Hill

He knows the league. He's been around the league for 12 years. That's a quality I think counts for something. He's been around some good programs. You look at the success of those teams, he's had his fingerprints on them. I think he's a good hire for the Vikings.

Stephen Rodrick

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Alan Winter

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Joel Hirschhorn

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Bill Gates

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Slobodan Milosevic

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.

Pam McCoy

I'm here to support the May family. It has nothing to do with the death penalty." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

John Tinker

Peace is the right approach. War is the wrong approach.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Javier Solana

Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire,

Jan Pronk

Peace is being jeopardized in the short run.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love! Peace and love! Peace and love!

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ron Johnson

Rest in Peace, Brother, you will be missed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

Carrie Underwood

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

Daniel Marks

I think they are actually considerably worse (than soft drinks).

Joey Porter

I would think somebody would say that, but I wouldn't think he would say that. He's too soft to say something like that.

Kevin Sneddon

Just really disappointed in the third goal; it really took the wind out of our sails. That was just a really soft goal.

Byron Scott

I thought we were soft. Soft on defense. Soft on the boards. That tells me we're scared.

Vincent Cannistraro

If anything is a soft target, it's that.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Dickie Moore

He talked hard, but he had a soft heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Terry Davis

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Blaise Pascal

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Calvin Coolidge

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are