Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Becker

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

Pope Benedict

Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Charles Thomas

Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Joseph Hansen

Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Victorian mansion that was the first location of the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles, which Morris helped to found.

Hale Irwin

(Friday), the putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Kyrsten Sinema

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Mark Lewis

Like any business, size is important when dealing with vendors. It gives us more muscle with airlines and tour and cruise lines.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was an excellent year for the industry. There is still a big need for airlines to renew their fleets.

Steve Gardner

Last year was a challenging year for the airline industry as a whole, which makes the news of our record even more significant.

Troy Bell

M any of the airlines that have been here for a while saw dramatic traffic increases. It's a competitive business. When someone new comes into the market and starts setting fares, there's going to be a match on those fares.

Douglas Parker

Several airlines are anxiously watching these proceedings. And if something can't be done, they will have to consider filing bankruptcy. America West is one of those airlines.

Bob Mann

Seasonally, that's the right time to do it. Winter in the airline business is long and cold, and, with these fuel prices, it will be especially long and especially cold this year.

Gregory Olsen

One hundred years ago, airline flight was reserved for only a few brave souls. Everyone flies (on planes) nowadays. The same will be true of space flight.

Lawrence Eagles

No one fundamental reason can explain this whopping fall, ... There is concern that demand, particularly from the airline industry, could fall. There are clear recessionary concerns.

Geoff Dixon

Neither airline now believes the shareholding is necessary for the ongoing conduct of that relationship,

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.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Tim Laatsch

Should all the contingencies be met, the hotel would then be sold.

Skip Bertman

If we can't play in Tiger Stadium, we might look to another site in Louisiana. A site where there are hotel rooms. Playing at Lafayette might be a possibility. But we're not there yet.

Brian Parker

This stand-alone Web site is a first-of-its kind in the lodging industry. We now offer consolidated resources for entrepreneurs seeking information on the lodging and franchising industries, providing an on-line Hotel 101.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Hal Daub

We're not getting those large conventions because we're short hotel rooms.

Phil Everly

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Gene Green

There are no hotel rooms to be had in Houston because we had 55,000 evacuees from Louisiana,

Valentine Vester

But we diddled them. We made an imaginary list of hotel guests. I mean two can play at that game. It was shocking, really.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Ernest Johnson

People are getting kicked out of hotels as we speak. It sends a mixed message. ... We are saying we have destruction and we need aid, and then we're having a party.

Paul Browne

There is no information to suggest any New York hotels are targeted,

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Estelle Perrault

We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.

Todd Olson

I'm sure the hotels in town are pretty full, with all that's going on.

Markel Humphrey

Hotels and gyms, that's it. At the tournament we went to the mall one time, but that was all.

Scott Mills

It's not on a steam table getting older and older. My whole thing from being with restaurants and hotels is keeping it fresh.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

John Maynard Keynes

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Mike Viesca

She has served her time for now. She does not owe the state any more time. She will not be on parole or anything.

Benedict Lucchesi

I don't know that I owe them an apology,

Hans Jonas

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Ellen McLaughlin

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

Howard Dean

He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out.

Matt Nagle

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Jeremy Root

If they had pulled those out, we would have won.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Rick Noble

I don't know what we said, but it was kind of like a high-five, we really pulled this off. It was better than we thought it was going to be. Even now when I talk about it I get chills.

Eddy Curry

Y'all pulled out the old stuff, ... This is the vintage stuff. Throwback. This is crazy, man, crazy.

Douglas Rice

We were all just sort of pulled out of the cabins.

Mike Hargrove

We won't know until tomorrow. If I were to guess, he pulled a hamstring.

Kathy Mattea

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Gary Waters

He should have pulled up. He was trying to get fouled, I know that's what he was thinking.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Meghan Steiner

I did everything I could for it. I was working out the whole time. I took calcium pills.

David Anders

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

John Enos

I got right in my truck and took off to Dayton.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.