Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah's vision are crying "Holy, Holy, Holy" to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.

C. S. Lewis

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

Agnes Repplier

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Victoria Snelgrove

We were blessed with Torie. She was a Godsend, she really was,

Val McLean

We were blessed with a pretty mild winter this year and we've been able to play outside most of the time. We have a good indoor facility but it's better to be able to practice outside as much as we can.

Clint Johnson

We were blessed with a couple of very good witnesses who saw if from start to finish.

John Carlock

We were blessed to have some young kids hungry for baseball. We're already excited about next year. We played well. We put forth the necessary effort.

Charles Dudley Warner

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

Adrian Bevington

We have said that when the World Cup comes back to Europe it is something that we will give serious consideration to.

Lawrie Sanchez

We have prepared in the same we way as we did for a World Cup qualifier,

Clive Woodward

We set out to be the No. 1 team in the world and the only time you can say that is when you have the World Cup sitting here with you, ... I hope it kicks on to a really golden era for English rugby.

Abby Wambach

I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.

Rafa Benitez

We know each other so well and when you play a cup tie you know it will always be a difficult tie. We shall see what happens.

Enya

I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.

Evangeline Lilly

'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

John McEnroe

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.

Kacey Musgraves

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Dale Robertson

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Kapil Sharma

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Lyle Kessler

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Richard Flanagan

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Bill Cheney

We're still looking at job growth, but not enough to prevent unemployment from rising. If there were no special factors explaining this, it would be a rather dramatic piece of news.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Rick Hartzell

There are a lot of exciting pieces to this game. I think it will be great fun.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Dita Von Teese

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.

John Updike

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

Denny Plyler

We did extremely well. If this had been a team thing we would have won easily.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

John Banville

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Les Kynett

We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to come out for the farewell party.

Aasif Mandvi

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Greg Lowell

We've started well this year in big games. It got our fans into it and got our kids going early.

Jonathan Cain

We've seen a Renaissance in the fans ... a lot of younger 18-to-25 demographics.

Josh Turner

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Taylor Lautner

When we're not filming or promoting then, you know, I live two different lives. So when I'm just in Taylor's life, and I'm just, you know, at home spending time with friends, it's great, it's a totally different life than this 'Twilight' world for sure. But it's amazing; our fans are the most passionate fans in the world!

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tebow

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Elizabeth Hand

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

Daniel Goddard

I do personal appearances, and I meet my fans, and I am genuinely honored that they come out to say 'Hello' and just to see me.

Khloe Kardashian

When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.

Lil Mama

One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.

Aravind Adiga

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

Aravind Adiga

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,

Katharine Graham

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Billy Bush

Professional golfer... what a life.

Scott Draper

Maybe my naivety at not understanding how tough it is is a good thing, because so many golfers see it as mecca,

Scott Johnstone

Nobody spends more time with the junior golfers than Pete.

Pat Riley

We didn't do as well as we've done this year, but it was just really great to be there, ... There's a lot of great golfers there and we'll be back next year.

Andy Jones

We're evaluating it on an ongoing basis. Our research tell us that golfers want to see the commercials -- particularly equipment. So we're watching it closely.

Rick Anderson

Those are some great golfers who spent a lot of time on our courses.

Lisa Baker

We'll have 250 golfers trying to get into this year's tournament.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Mark Faulkner

If we had kept those undulations and slopes, golfers wouldn't be able to keep it on the green now.

Elizabeth Thornton

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Elizabeth Thornton

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

Alan Brown

Would you identify the man in this picture?

Tom Waits

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Kathryn Flicker

Megan had become a walking, talking piece of evidence. She knew him. She could identify him. He knew it, and he had to get rid of that threat. And so he killed.

Frank Brunner

Let's identify where the most pressing need is now.

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Dennis Johnson

Lucas Oil? That has no meaning to me. I can't really identify with that. I don't know what Lucas Oil is.

Scott Eden

Basically, our mission is to identify the problem, do outreach, and collaborate with people on solutions, then do testing to see if it made a difference.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Kelvin Garnett

We'd get a led and then tend to relax.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Steve Martarano

There doesn't seem to be anything that really led to the attack.

Kevin Anderson

Mr. Benitez has led a law-abiding life not even a traffic ticket. Nothing.

Hunter S. Thompson

McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Shamalene Broner

We have a solid defense. There's really no weak line out there. If they make a mistake it's mental, not physical.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Jim Sheridan

We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Leroy Hill

We know he has a big job. He's got to get the calls, give them to us and line us up. But we still like to mess with him. Like, after awhile, we get tired and we don't want to huddle anymore. He'll get mad and start fussing at everybody.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Sara Parson

One of my friends went to the Olympics in '04. So a lot of us are working towards getting on the Olympic team as well.

Dennis Dunn

We've been overwhelmed. It seems to start before the Olympics with the promotional buildup.

Michael Johnson

Too many people try to put these championships on a par with the world championships or the Olympics but they are not -- never have been, never will be.

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Eric Shanteau

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Jim Schmitz

We have players that can make some outstanding plays.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nitasha Brown

With the win at Kentucky, players got a taste of what it takes to win at this level.

Justin Huber

Wow. I didn't even know it so I'm very shocked. There are some tremendous players who had some tremendous years so I'm very honored.

Kiki Chesterton

We've got a very multi-diverse attack. I have seven players at the restraining line, and all seven can put it in the net. We got some sick shooters.

Sylvester Croom

We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,

The Eagles

Until we prove otherwise, they're simply the premiere 3-A team around here that I know of,

Ben Bradlee

She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.

Jonathan Demme

We pretended it was a world premiere concert.

Merle Bishop

If we get together, this could be the premier place to live in the county.

Alan Smith

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.

Lara Giddings

Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Jean Charest

It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,

Jayne Houdyshell

It's extremely exciting to be part of a world premiere here at Arena.

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Brian Dixon

We've stopped putting water on them and there is no smoking.

Steve Lemke

Now we're taking what we had and putting it on steroids,

Joe Humasti

From tee to green, we're great. But our putting killed us. We really have to do a lot of work on our short game.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Carol Mann

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

Carol Mann

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Carlos Delgado

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

Carl Everett

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Agnes Smedley

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Alan Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Shepard

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Carol Leifer

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

Alan Rudolph

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Charles W. Pickering

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Richard G. Scott

I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

Brenton Thwaites

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Dianne Wiest

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

David Agus

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.