Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Dennis Johnson

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

Benjamin Franklin

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Al Yankovic

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

Ken Bacon

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

Reinhard Buetikofer

There is a long chain of diametrically opposed positions, not least on social issues.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Charles Spurgeon

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Charles Spurgeon

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Charles Spurgeon

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Ahmed Akkari

We lack a clear statement where the newspaper apologizes for the offense and stand by it.

Evan Katz

We know we take liberties in that regard, but CTU clearly is a very efficient and effective (agency). And we're frankly honored and lucky to be working with them.

Frank Lampard

We know we're not quite there yet, last year was a fantastic day for us here. It was a big step towards winning it today. We're the ones nine points clear and as long as we do our job we're going to win the league. We got the result, we're nearly there.

S. Walker

Ultimately, there will be some standardization within communities, and it's not clear to consumers who will win in their areas.

David Leavy

Ultimately, the decision is theirs to make. Our responsibility, from our vantage point, is to make clear the risks.

Laurie Arron

Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Charles W. Pickering

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Djuna Barnes

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

John Curry

When you talk about all of these things and weave them together, for the first time, conservationists have something in which they can see the forest for the trees. It screams that it needs our attention.

Dawn Powell

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Bill Nye

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

William Shakespeare

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Bettie Page

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.

Robert Townsend

Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Mike Leavitt

If one thinks of the world as though it were a vast forest, if there is a spark in the forest and you are there to see it, you are able to simply snuff it out,

Bobby Bowden

I think in (Wake Forest game) you saw the vulnerability some times. We've got to stay healthy is what it comes down to.

Todd Berry

I think sometimes we lose the forest for the trees. . . . When you have a full-time Legislature like Wisconsin does, you're going to get this kind of behavior.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Daniel Handler

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Brian Lara

The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar

Mats Sundin

We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it.

Rudy Gay

Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better.

Maurice Flanagan

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

Ashley Boehnel

She's a big girl. She's tall and very, very strong. She was very physical.

Kevin Estes

I'm always a little worried when we play teams that are taller than us.

Greg Long

We all had a go and we probably surfed the tallest waves of our lives.

Tom Thomson

Even with 'stealth' it's still a tall pole,

Adam Baker

They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.

Eric Osmundson

That's why they're top Division-I athletes. They get the fastest, quickest, tallest players.

Peter Falk

Usually, I get hired because I`m tall.

Scott Westerfeld

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

William Golding

You'll get back to where you came from.

Larry Moore

When we get some rain, we're going to have a lot more trees fall.

Ron Williams

We have approximately 600 to 700 trees uprooted and down,

Angela King

Trees can't do their thing unless they are in the right spot.

Kerry Johnson

We didn't even know what trees are here, ... They've got trees there. What we have are twigs.

Larry Hawkins

This beautiful, established canopy of trees is just gone. It's just firewood.

Bob Ross

A lot of times we can get trees out without scarring other trees.

David Brown

It went through trees before it got into the city.

Bubba Watson

I know how to get out of the trees pretty good.

Jason Rogers

I like the trees here a lot more than other areas.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.