Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Scott Boras

When he got Boston's first offer, he realized that he thought of himself differently than the Red Sox did. He knew then that there was a possibility he may leave, and I don't think that he ever considered leaving prior to that.

Kypros Chrysostomides

We want improvements in the text. The intervention of France introduced some new important elements, but the general framework of the counter-declaration is not considered entirely satisfactory to our side.

Steve Rucchin

There are a lot of good teams out there, and if we want to be considered one of them, we have to show up to play for a full 60 minutes. From what I've seen the last two games, teams are sitting back, but our team is not poised enough with the puck. We seem to be ramming it down our own throats and moving it where they have their guys positioned.

Donna Abbott

We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Elon Musk

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

Jennifer Lawrence

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

Laurent Brancowitz

I always considered technical musicianship as something you should be ashamed of - I don't know why.

Kevin Campbell

We want to provide an educational model where students can operate on a smaller scale and not fall between the cracks. We want to make sure the teachers know the students on a deeper level, their passions and the things they want to pursue in the future. That makes education relevant for them.

Donald Driver

We have to get ourselves out of the hole, ... Right now, we are in the deep hole.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Terry Hoeppner

There are a lot of dimensions to Lance Bennett. He's deep and wide.

Marty Stuart

When I did suit back up and put the Superlatives together, I had a lot of trouble in my mind following ( The Pilgrim ). I was doing a session one day with Cash, and I said, 'You've made lots of brilliantly deep records that weren't on anybody's radar except yours. I'm having a tough time following this Pilgrim thing.' He said, 'The only thing I can tell you is that your next record has to come out of your heart like that one did, or it's just a wasted work. Once you make a record like that, you can't go back and live with yourself.' And he was right.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Terry Hayes

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Nancy Buirski

What we do is we see it deeper and we see it more focused.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Charles Wagner

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Cory Schneider

We want it. It's so prestigious and something you'll always remember if you win it. That's the first of many goals we have for ourselves this season.

J. Wince

We've set some team goals and we'll just see how it goes for this game. We've told the guys that why it can't be us to make the news and upset the No. 1 ranked team in the state.

Viktor Yushchenko

We've stepped away from the goals of the revolution,

Paul Doughty

We are here to get better. We know we aren't going to win a state championship this year, but we set our goals to get better each game.

Rafa Benitez

We started really well with two goals and good counter-attacks. But, after we conceded, it was difficult. But the most important thing is to start with a win.

Topper McFaun

This win was huge in a lot of ways, not just because we scored more goals than they did. It was the way we did it. We got the lead and we held the lead the whole game.

Hayley Wickenheiser

When I got the second goal, I knew I had 100 goals so one of my teammates, Gillian Apps, grabbed the puck for me.

Angie Murphy

We're going to need a lot of help to win conference. But our goals are still there. We're getting ready for the tournament and hopefully a run to the state tournament.

Paul Jorgensen

She has high goals. She has (the) potential (to do very well). A nice smooth runner; (she has) a good base.

Burl Cain

We have to have a jail or we can't ever restore order and rebuild the city.

Don Cheadle

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

Chen Guangcheng

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Asif Ali Zardari

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Barbara Deming

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

Austin O'Malley

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Brian Urlacher

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Brian Baird

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

John Brady

Let's be honest, what are we? Twelve and five? We've played 17 games. I think we ought to reserve those kind of judgments and statements to much later down the road.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Johnny Estrada

This was a legitimate perfect game, any way you slice it.

Carl Icahn

When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

Alex Ebert

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Tom Jurich

We want to win a national championship here, ... Seven years ago, it sounded ridiculous, but now I think it's a legitimate goal.

Danny White

We still have a legitimate shot at going to the playoffs if we can get on a little run. Two teams will go to the playoffs from our division, so we still have a shot.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Richard Herring

We have seen a lot of momentum buying,

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

David Shields

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Edward M. Purcell

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Golan Levin

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David D. Burns

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Carolina Herrera

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

E. Hicks

We've (shot) very poor percentages and come out with a win. We just need to play harder. We lacked physical, tough play for 40 minutes.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Marsha Kello

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Edmund Burke

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Unknown

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Carol Vorderman

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

Carlos Castaneda

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

Agnetha Faltskog

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Alan Sugar

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

Charlotte Bronte

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Charlotte Bronte

Remorse is the poison of life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Aya Cash

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Rabih Alameddine

When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

Laird Barron

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Stephen Merchant

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

David Carson

A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.

Maeve Binchy

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

Jeff Lindsay

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

David Giuntoli

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Jane Austen

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Jan Karon

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Bob Black

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Tina Fey

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Bill Johnson

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Edward Abbey

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Mike Browning

We're talking about sending him down so he can get some game-time experience.

Henry Spencer

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Myrtle Reed

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Alan Paton

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

William Shakespeare

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

John Heywood

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.