Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andy Fox

Let staff look into the participants in the committee to make sure they are diverse and make recommendations to the council.

Arlen Specter

Sen. Leahy and I have our differences, but when it comes to procedures on the committee and setting how things are going to be done, I consult with him at every turn,

Milan Hejduk

Milan Hejduk must be wondering what else he needed to do to impress the selection committee for the 2003 All-Star Game. Would they have preferred if he tossed in a triple Lutz?

Robert Giuffra

Mr. Duncan will testify on Jan. 24 if the Committee votes to grant him immunity.

Jo Maney

Mr. Dreier would have had to give up his chairmanship of the Rules Committee to move to another position, and that's not something that he wanted to do.

John Curry

Me and my committee will make that decision as we go through our screening.

Jane Harman

My job as ranking member is about being a partner in making the committee effective.

Jim Manley

No decision has been made regarding a Senate Judiciary Committee rule that permits any committee member to request a one-week postponement of a committee vote.

Sharad Pawar

More information on the earlier lines was placed before the working committee by the treasurer. The matter was discussed and it was decided to leave the matter to the discretion of the president.

Tom Jones

Let's not complain about why things don't work. Let's see if we can come up with something that we can all get behind.

Stephen Harper

Let the Liberals complain about facing the people. We're interested in facing the future as a party and a country.

Bob Curran

Last year, we had 3,000 wells drilled but fewer than 20 complaints. These complaints are for all types of issues, including water, noise and surface impacts.

Jim Roberts

So far, we've not received any complaints from tenants that they are losing parking spots.

Friso Abbing

So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,

Greg Evans

Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

Brodie Croyle

Matt's one of the toughest guys on our team. He never complains about not getting enough reps. When it comes crunch time, he's there.

Mark Turgeon

No complaints. We had the first game on our home court. This is probably how it should be.

Tommy Tuberville

No complaints on our part. We'll go down there and play, and it will make no difference on who wins and loses.

Billy Beane

(Macha) did a fine job. We obviously had significant player turnover and injuries. The end result was good. It was great to see the young guys make the progress they did.

Paul Dergarabedian

Last year was a tough year anyway, and this puts a fine point on it.

A. E. Housman

May will be fine next year as like as not: / Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

Danny Clark

My main concern, whatever front we're in, is to stop them. I'm fine with that.

Mark Richt

(One game) we have looked like a finesse team, a passing team, run it here and there. And the next time we just flat out ran it and didn't even do anything to try and loosen the perimeter.

Arthur Conan

Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.

Shane Kieler

No one really talks about us. But that's fine with us. We're just going to keep winning games.

John Burnside

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Richard H. Davis

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I work, so I'll say dinner, ... I have a job now.

Ricky Williams

Lunch or dinner? Well, I'm at work, so it'll have to be dinner. I have a job now.

Marc Warren

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

Gary Mickelson

legal obligation to do their job and are not part of this dispute.

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Ruth Rendell

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Kelly Meek

Scotty knows our system so well, anyway. He is doing a super job playing within what he has.

Martin O'Malley

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Randy Schaedig

From that standpoint, this isn't really much of a change. We play all those teams already anyway.

Tyler Mitchell

When we started out as freshmen, we were ok, but there were other teams out there who were a lot better than us.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Henry Hall

I do not think many teams will win at Elgin so I will take the draw.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, we are two different teams. I think these two teams will go their own way.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Billy Corgan

We've turned into a whining society.

Dana Altman

There will be no whining or complaining from us.

Maya Angelou

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Hillary Clinton

I can't stand whining.

Seth Godin

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Woody Allen

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.