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.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

Lee Williams

My job is to grow this business. We've got programs with great opportunities and that's what I want workers to keep focused on.

Robert Esche

My first thought? You can't write it. I'm focused on seven games. I'm focused on leaving this one behind.

Peter Rohde

Obviously we're focused on not getting players rubbed out, but at the same time we don't want to make them too gun-shy.

Don Blandin

More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grounded in a plan and they're saving blindly. They really don't know if they're saving enough.

Amy Ellis

My girls are only focused on (today's) game.

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Marianne Faithfull

Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

Ellen Davis

Many malls will spend weeks, if not months, to start setting up. Many retailers are just trying to get a head start on the holidays so that when they arrive, they'll have everything decorated and in place.

Michael Cohen

Software really now has to be at the head of the company's strategy so it makes sense to have Jonathan at the role he's in.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Arthur Jackson

One side of her head and neck was burnt. Everything was raw.

Goran Persson

One might say that after 33 years as head of state this should have been done before, but it should be painted when one is the middle of one's life, so here we are.

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Bruce Bochy

Obviously, we'd like to start getting some pinch hits.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Tough to say. It's tough to pinpoint what's different, really.

Kim Miller

The pins were not where they were supposed to be. If the pins had been in place, the seats would not have come loose.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Joe Ciccarelli

We still haven't been able to pinpoint these shootings to anybody.

Vince Neil

Yeah, blindfolds, just like pin the tail on us. We're the donkey.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Edgar Cayce

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Charles Spurgeon

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Peguy

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Dick Van Dyke

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

Diane Lane

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Bas Rutten

I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.

Eddie Vedder

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Ed McBain

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.