Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Henning Kagermann

We want to take on more people again in 2006.

Luke Bracey

My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'

Luc Montagnier

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Louis Stokes

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Michel Patini

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

Maajid Nawaz

The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

John LaFontaine

The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.

David Selby

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

Luke Pasqualino

I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.

E. B. White

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

Marisa Miller

I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for the opportunities that I've been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don't let it consume me.

Gerald Schwartzbach

Was there anything about his appearance or demeanor that evening that struck you as unusual?

Baltasar Gracian

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Atharva Veda

Man is but the Image of God. Even Nature is but an appearance of God; the reality is He alone.

Juvenal

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Juvenal

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Douglas Gibson

She is a convicted criminal who stole thousands of rands of taxpayers' money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

David Sims

One in every three people convicted for DWI in Los Alamos County is under 21 years of age.

Bob Conlin

If a person is convicted of something while in state service, they do not automatically lose their benefits. There's no provision in state law for something like that.

Joseph Estrada

I have mixed feelings. I welcome this opportunity to present my side because I was denied that right in the impeachment trial when prosecutors walked out. I was convicted in the streets.

David Gill

I would think if he gets convicted of something there may be some changes. We still go by innocent until proven guilty.

Michael McGuire

has not been convicted of drug offenses or (a) crime of violence.

Terje Nyboe

It is a good judgment and I am pleased that three of the defendants are now convicted for this crime. These three were the most important.

Ralph Phillips

hit intentionally by a driver and we convicted him and put him in jail for a year.

Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Chinua Achebe

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Bill Keller

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Lithuanian Proverb

The person who gives is a person who has

Pedrito Estrill

We are pretty happy about winning a championship. It's always good when you win a championship. It means that you have represented your school well and gives the school something that you can positively identify with.

Dave Littlefield

We're in a position where we can look years down the road and plug in other things. I think that gives us hope for a stronger future. Now, they've got to win and perform well and all that stuff, but you've got to get yourself to that point where we are now.

Ashley Burnett

We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an opportunity to practice and go over some things and get rested up for Friday.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

John Hanley

We're going to remove that portion first because it gives us more room to remove the main portion.

Jay Wright

We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Gore Vidal

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

Charles Caleb Colton

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Charles Stanley

God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.

Alan Rickman

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Alan Moore

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Madrigal

My primary responsibility is to be funny,

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Akio Morita

If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?

Chris Colfer

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Alan Parsons

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Chance The Rapper

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Bill Maher

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

Josh Childress

Watch the tape throughout, and you'll see him doing things like that.

Derrick Brooks

Watching those tapes told me I've still got a lot of work to do,

Ben Bradlee

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

Bellamy Young

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Demetri Martin

There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Hayley Williams

Never! Oh my God... I would have slit my wrists!