Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions,

Dr. Fukino

We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.

Kevin Bentley

What we did, we held what we were going to do until there were about seven seconds on the play clock. Because if he's going to check, which he is, don't leave him with enough time.

Edward Brooke

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

Eric Schneiderman

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Jonathan Tasini

The people who supported the war must be held accountable.

John Walsh

We're held to the highest standards and when that is violated, you violate your own department's trust and you are held accountable for those actions.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Kianna Smith

We've seen so many types of presses. I think I could sleep and still go through them. I knew that wouldn't be a problem.

Joe Cocker

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

The Weeknd

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Theresa Russell

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Kirk Hinrich

We know we had Madison Square Gordon, so we knew we were in the driver's seat.

Tori Kelly

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Delta Goodrem

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Phil Rosenthal

We want to thank all of you for nine wonderful years.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Betty Comden

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Brian Robertson

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.