Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Dawn Brown

Life in our family changed when we adopted him. It has been challenging, but very rewarding.

Cheryl Crates

Last year there were eight versions of the budget (the ninth version was passed by the board of education) ... This is version four. We'll probably do four or more of these (budgets) until it's adopted in September.

Joseph Estey

Miranda is in theory a very simple concept that has actually become pretty complicated, ... The fallback should be, you should have a form that's been legally adopted through the prosecuting authority.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Steve Wingfield

My hopes are that people will take some time out to watch this broadcast and see first hand how great the needs are of our adopted city.

John Deane

No president that I can find in the history of our country has really ever adopted a policy of expanding presidential powers for the sake of expanding presidential powers. And I think that's what we have going on.

Allen Boyd

For years, the Blue Dogs have stressed the need for a rainy day fund in the event of disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, ... Unfortunately, this concept, which is adopted by most families and businesses, has eluded many members of Congress and the current administration.

Charla Baker

If a county adopts a sewage ordinance, then it is governed by the county and the state doesn't send inspectors in, ... That's why the state doesn't inspect our systems here. ...What our ordinance states is that we adopted the Missouri State Sewage Law.

Gil Reyes

We're not crazy about the cortisone, but it allows us to work.

Lindsay Davenport

Lots of crazy things can happen on this surface but it was pretty easy,

Dennis Rodman

Many things have happened in the last 10 years. ... I should have been dead, ... The crazy antics, the wild parties. If I did drugs the way I partied with drinking, I would be dead.

Pamela Boggs

Menopause is a perfectly natural process. As family members and friends recognize that this is a normal process and learn about the normal, natural symptoms, they will then treat the woman like she's normal and natural rather than a crazy woman.

Lin Dutton

My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because of the gourds taking over the place. It really was a funny sight.

Jibril Rajoub

Netanyahu must stop his crazy policies in East Jerusalem, ... The reaction, the riots, the demonstrations are the result of these policies.

Peter Boockvar

Noone questions why we were so crazy the first week of January, we're giving back some of the fluff rally.

Hassan Shehata

Morale is very high after all the victories and with the crazy support we'll have, we're going to do everything we can to win.

Donovan Morgan

My grandmother was crying because she was saying out of her whole 71 years, she's never seen anything like that. There are a whole lot of crazy things going on down there. I just want them out of there.

Samuel Coleridge

Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it

Lawrence Blume

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Tracey Bregman

Right as Michael discovers she's alive, one of the twists kicks in.

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Dan Hill

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

Sean Maguire

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

Bhagavad Gita

A person whose mind is unattached to sensual pleasures, who discovers the joy of the Self, and whose mind is in union with Brahman through meditation, enjoys eternal bliss.

Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Robert Ingpen

A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Bible Bible

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Bible Bible

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

Mike Dunne

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

Stephen Pagliuca

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

Robert Mankoff

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Jack Brooks

Luke's a pitcher. There are not many 'pitchers' around. He had to work at the end, but he worked through it. No matter what happens he goes after the next batter.

Ken Lynch

Life goes on. We are not moving at all.

Craig Frederick

Life goes on. I have to worry about other things. If that's what they think is best, there's nothing I can do about it.

Steve Tambellini

Let's go one step at a time. We'll see how the procedure goes Wednesday. Hopefully he'll be back.

Craig Fugate

Many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, ... In some of these neighborhoods, till the water goes down, people are not going to be able to get back in their homes and start making repairs.

Tasia Scolinos

Much thought goes into how and why various tools are used in these often-complicated cases. The important thing is for someone not to come away thinking this whole process is arbitrary, which it is not.

Dominic James

No day goes by without planning my future. I really try not to think about it (NBA), but that is one of my goals. That's why I'm here.

Jack Stephens

One of the things this system offers is redundancy, and so if one tower goes down, there will be another that will pick up the communications and that you can patch into.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Mild weather and growing stockpiles can't be ignored much longer.

Robert Reischauer

Medicare spending has slowed dramatically in the last year. It's now growing at less than 2 percent, which is the slowest rate of growth since the program started in 1965.

Glenn Walters

Media is growing rapidly in our world. Job opportunities are increasing as well.

Noel Maye

One of the things we're seeing in the profession now is that a lot of practices are growing from one-person firms.

John Lasseter

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Jack Vaughn

More and more people are shopping online. I know some students are doing that. Our Web sales are growing every semester.

Ella Henderson

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

Spike Jonze

On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Pia Zadora

I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Jiles Smith

We need to work with them to get the height down to three stories.

John Jay

We can be undersized and play. We do sacrifice some height and girth when we have to slide down with more lean guys. Where we are now, I'm going to try and get as much time as I can out of each starter.

Caitlin Flanagan

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

August Wilson

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Edward Gorey

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Calvin Harris

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

Lady Gregory

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Denis Leary

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Bernard Laporte

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

Tony Blair

Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,

Linda Doyle

Because Ireland is an island, it can be a playground for spectrum.

Ian Paisley

Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?

John Cooney

Middle-class Ireland has effectively become a la carte Catholics.

George Bernard Shaw

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Jonathan Powell

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Alexandra Fuller

I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

Nevil Shed

Let's make it better for tomorrow. That's what the journey is all about.

Yolette Etienne

Many residents of Port-au-Prince have told us they are too scared to make the journey to vote on Tuesday.

John Odrechowski

One journey is over. It is time to start a second.

Cameron Crowe

Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.

Charles R. Swindoll

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

Dennis Ritchie

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

Edgar Mitchell

Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey.

Alexandra Adornetto

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Jeff Christian

Like a kid on a playground, he said, 'Well, that is awesome. This is terrific research.'

Laurence Steinberg

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

Steve Mullins

Letting kids out of our schools who don't know how to read and write, it's always been morally indefensible and now it's economically indefensible as well.

Johnny Depp

Luckily the kids are pretty well-balanced and well-grounded and not monster-like at all.

Scott Walker

Let's not kid ourselves. He's probably the No. 1 reason we are where we are.

Jennifer Ebelhar

Let your kids select the vegetables they want as pizza toppings.

E. Hicks

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Ned Yost

Look who did the damage. That's where we're at right now. We've got those kids and they're producing.

John Reid

Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.

Maripol

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Chris Crutcher

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Chris Crutcher

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

Denis Diderot

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Edgar Allan Poe

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Edgar Allan Poe

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.

John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Red Buttons

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Trenton Lee Stewart

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

Justin Welby

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Ron Shock

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.

Ken Freeman

In my 45 years in Sabine Parish I've never seen anything like this,

Sandra Gordon

A parish is family. A parish is generations. A parish is your history.

Charles Vidrine

This is the most parity we have had at the parish tournament in several years.

Terry Taylor

They have not taken the views of the parish into consideration.

David Hope

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

John Calipari

Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.

Dan Dersam

Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Jim Tressel

Obviously, it was a different scenario than we've played under recently.

Robert Price

We had been at Warehouse C-11 in Atlanta, where we had played before,

Rafael Nadal

For sure I didn't play 100 percent. But he played very good, too.

Roberto Luongo

From my standpoint it's disappointing. I think I could have played a little better.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Anupam Kher

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All beginnings are very troublesome things ...

Samuel Johnson

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.