Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Mison

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

James Woolsey

This was a sophisticated operation, ... They should start looking into the ownership of that boat that pulled alongside and blew up -- where it came from, what happened to the information after it arrived in Aden that the Cole was going to refuel.

Elliot Ackerman

My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongside. We bled alongside each other; we mourned together. When I came home, these weren't people I could keep up with on Facebook.

Rick Egelton

When you take (the report) alongside all the other indicators, particularly the purchasing managers' survey, it confirms the economy is indeed in recovery.

Jerry Colangelo

When it came right down to it, I had to make a choice. This was the individual, it was the guy, right time, right place. It was the guy I wanted alongside of me to go forward.

David Graddol

Since they tend to live and work alongside other ethnic communities, they may find they have to learn other languages as well.

Gary Smith

Most of the stocked portion of the stream has a road running alongside it, so it has pretty good access, too.

Natasha Bedingfield

I am thrilled to be featured alongside Sean Connery in the game version of one of my favorite Bond films. It's not every day you get to become a Bond Girl so this is a great honour.

Greville Janner

Imagine the feelings of victims' families as they read the list and see the names of victims alongside those of their murderers.

Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Michael Chertoff

We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,

Bible Bible

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man

Tina Brown

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

E. Housman

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Michael Chertoff

We need more than brute enforcement, ... We need a temporary worker program as well.

Kwabena Boahen

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Ian Martin

The people of East Timor, whatever side of the issue they are on, are determined to have their say in this ballot.

Suzy Menkes

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Paul Hawkins

This will only make us more determined to live in peace and respect each other and we can all play our part in that,

Jim Thomas

We determined that there was a lot of opportunity out there if we marketed it right.

Russ Danielson

We determined that policies were not followed, recommendations were not responded to and good judgement was not exercised.

Jessica Brown

We determined he probably didn't have anything to do with this.

Chuck Goodman

We determined at our last meeting last month that it was unrealistic that we would have a major impact on this establishment no matter what we did.

Carlos Fuentes

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

Steve Campbell

We have no problem with immigration as long as it's legal. So we thought we'd exercise our right, as Americans, to protest.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

Charles Dickens

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Noel Mazzone

We know he's an explosive guy. But he's shown this week he can run between the tackles, which we weren't sure about.

Daniel Finn

We're running through people now and I think a lot of that can be contributed to our weight training. We do a lot of cleans and explosive movements and they're starting to understand how they can use that (on the field). It's making a difference.

Peter Cardillo

We had a very explosive rally yesterday, and gas prices are moving a little higher this morning.

David Carr

We've always had signs of being explosive, but we've never kept it up. If we can be consistently explosive it would be great.

Ben Venzke

What we're seeing is an increase in the evolutionary pace of IED (improvised explosive device) design. It's increasing at a pace we previously haven't seen.

Muggsy Bogues

She's a very explosive player. She's already a scorer. You don't have to teach her much on the perimeter.

Dick Peecher

She's an explosive player and we had to get her involved in the game to win.

Ray Moore

The plan was to hold them down as long as we could. Forest is such an explosive team and I think we played them very tough. I was quite proud of my team, they gave a real spirited performance.

Eric Phillips

Ricky's a good kid and a hard-nosed runner. He had those two explosive plays that really lifted us up. He's going to be a good one.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Mark Shapiro

We want him to throw quality strikes, not just hard strikes. He's going to be a contributor for us this year. Maybe not from day one, but at some point this season he'll be a factor for us.

John Laird

The fact that so many congressional seats are noncompetitive is not fair, but one state reforming the way it does redistricting is like unilateral disarmament,

Judy Woodruff

The fact that she's the first African-American woman to be named not only to be national security advisor, but to go on to be named secretary of state -- she's already made history from that standpoint. Second woman to be named secretary of state, first African-American woman to be named secretary of state.

Chris Mooney

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

Mark Wiley

The fact that Seattle is so far away is a significant one,

Bill Cheney

The fact that prices have come down makes people feel better and they think the future looks better.

Mark Frost

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

M. Wolfe

There is no person who is happier for me, ... He's been nothing but supportive and we have such a mutual respect for each other.

Lee Radziwill

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Tim Leiweke

Phil said he was happier than he's ever been about his soccer investment.

E. Helm

Obviously I have a vested interest in what's going on up here, and I can't be happier than how things have gone. The repair work has been very smooth and very quick and we are ready to come back.

Tom Cruise

I find that, especially with children, they want to contribute. Even my kids, when they come in and they mess up the work and I'm busy, but they are just trying to help out, so I always say, 'Thank you.' That's how I am with them and I find that they're happier and I'm happier as a result.

John Lubbock

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being

William R. Alger

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Amish Tripathi

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

M. Wolfe

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

Alan Meeder

When you say you get 130 or 140 high school kids together, people say you must be insane.

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cathy Hay

We've seen prices pushing higher since about the middle of February.

John Freeman

The real issue is how high does that threshold need to be.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Stephen Colletti

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Helen Sharman

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Nick Saban

Would it be better long-term for him so that he can get better and just not be an every week thing for the next however many more weeks if he doesn't have an opportunity to get some rest and get it a little better than what it is right now?

Suzanne Anarde

One thing I'll miss is his sense of humor, however warped it may be.

Arthur Doyle

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

Bill Belichick

I don't know, ... Day to day. We'll take it day by day. That's the way it's been for the last however many months. That's, I think, the only way you can do it.

Sufjan Stevens

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Bill Ferguson

Trust is knowing that however life turns out, you will be fine.

Lao Tzu

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Eli Broad

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Tim McKee

We would rather not maintain the new stadium if we didn't have to.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Dick Cheney

We're going to maintain our optimistic pro-growth pro-entrepreneur pro-jobs strategy in Washington, D.C.,

Katrina Kaif

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

Carl Sagan

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Erin Richards

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

Ernest Mandel

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Henry Samueli

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

Carl Levin

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..

Charles Rangel

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Bill Maher

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

David Quammen

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Bill Gates

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.

Kate Bush

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,

Agnieszka Radwanska

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

Alan King

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

Charlotte Bronte

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Dee Brown

We've seen it before. Now we just have to practice for it.

Susan B. Anthony

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David Suzuki

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Mike Vaughn

This remains a tire issue, not a vehicle issue.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Gabrielle Giffords

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

David Richards

We're trying to make it safer all the time but motorsport is dangerous.

Jose Diaz

We thought it would be safer for him being that it was in the 44, ... We thought it would be safer.

Ban Ki-moon

A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

Larry Craig

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

When we're all done, it's going to be a safer expressway.

Adrienne Shelly

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Robin Roberts

I think that number's high, ... I think the schools are safer than that shows.

Jane MacDonald

Whether it's instinctive or whether or not it was just the way the wind was blowing, it seems that they somehow feel safer here.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Joss Stone

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.

Danny Nikolic

He was always travelling like the winner. I like the horse, he will only get better.

Michael Leunig

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Howard Dean

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Orson Scott Card

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.