Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Don Waddell

Some guys show up when you tell them to, like two hours before a game or a practice, but Chelios will be there three or four hours earlier than that. I wish all players in the NHL had the passion and drive that Chris Chelios has for the game.

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Kathleen McCarthy

Overall the times were slower than the previous week, but Chris Yuknis, Pat Swanson, and Zack Kennedy all finished well,

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Scott Norton

Robbie's working hard and learning what it takes to play at that level. I think the experience of being around guys like Michael Peca, Ryan Smyth, Jason Smith and Chris Pronger is more valuable than anything he could learn in junior hockey, but I'm not Craig MacTavish or Kevin Lowe.

Graham Murray

Particularly as an assistant, when things are going bad, there's no more loyal person in the game.

Stephen Biddle

Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

B. F. Skinner

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Bill Shankly

Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal.

C. S. Lewis

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Bertrand Russell

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Dan Furmansky

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Mark Thompson

Risk and reward tend to be symmetrical. If you want to be a high-value company, you have to take more risks.

Billy Corgan

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

C. S. Lewis

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Stephen Schwartz

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Ayn Rand

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

C. S. Lewis

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Earl Nightingale

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.