Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

William Lennon

We're not bring these charges to be popular, we're bringing these charges in order to stand up and take on public corruption head-on.

Sumner Redstone

Li is clearly a pioneer in bringing innovative partnerships to the Chinese people.

Guy Hohenhaus

Lifting the last remaining hold order at Pimlico is a positive that things are coming to a close there. We will continue working with all parties involved to monitor the situation and bring it to a conclusion. We thank the owners, trainers, and staff for their diligence in practicing prudent bio-security measures and their patience as we work through this science-based process that will make sure the remaining horses test negative before they will be released from the detention barn.

Sathya Baba

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Steve Mitchell

Let this be a starting point for us in renaming B Street a starting point for us to come together as a community all nationalities, bring it down to the human level.

Jim Johnson

Luckily, we had some engineers along. They just love that kind of scenario -- troubleshooting on the fly. That's what brings us joy in our work is fixing something and carrying on, instead of just being shut down.

John Strand

Luna Energy is a neighbor that brings tax revenues and new jobs to our city and county.

Buck Martinez

Luis Gonzalez has the respect of everybody in baseball, and his opinion is very valued. He's always been a character guy that we respect a lot. We felt that he brings everything we want on this team.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Jack McKeon

I can teach, ... I have nine grandkids.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Shiv Khera

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Walter Salles

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Allan Pope

We play nine people and try to wear down our opponents. That's what we did when I was at Pine Tree.

Trent Reznor

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Webb Simpson

One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

Larry Coker

We're going to need all our able-bodied troops in Tallahassee.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

David Bonderman

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Erwin Rommel

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Kenneth Williams

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Alexandra Paul

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Alexandra Fuller

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

Jeffrey Benjamin

More important than what you did yesterday is what you do today.

Charles Spurgeon

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Charles Spurgeon

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Deniece Schofield

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Edward Abbey

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

Elizabeth Edwards

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dionne Warwick

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

Dave Mustaine

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Dear Abbey

So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!