Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Richard Boucher

We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Mack Brown

We'd like for those two guys to get settled and started and learn the offense before they are criticized.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Brendan Behan

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Andrea Corr

She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us.

John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

William Butler Yeats

Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.

Irish Blessings

Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you

Penny Monahan

Remember, the day of the parade and March 17, everybody's Irish -- or wish they were.

Mike Saffran

People young and old come to listen to the traditional Irish music. Everyone's welcome. Everyone is Irish for the day.

Brendan Behan

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Tom Daschle

We're in a very unpredictable mode at this point,

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Bobby Flay

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

David Graham

He wasn't in World War II and neither was his speech writer.

Louis Hinnant

He had some things to say because we weren't playing up to our potential. This meeting, he was really animated. Me and Craig, we've been here the longest. Neither one of us has seen him like that.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

John James Ingalls

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Dave Rowell

Our pitching was not up to par and neither was our defense. It was one thing after another. We were bad, plain and simple.

Mike Albring

He's been practicing, running some drills and progressing, but he's not 100 percent and I'm not willing to risk it. Neither is his family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Ariel Winter

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Brian Billick

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple.

Robert Rankin

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

O. Singh

Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.

Joe Linklater

We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Kate Bush

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Gloria Estefan

I strongly feel that we are all connected,

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Spurgeon

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Alan Hovhaness

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edith Wharton

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Audrey Meadows

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Bryan Stevenson

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.