Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Juan Ruiz

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

S. Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another/ world be born. Let a bloody/ peace be written in the sky./ Let a second generation full of / courage issue forth; let a / people loving freedom come/ to growth.

Christopher Paolini

Many people have died for what they believe... the real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Jeffrey Hawk

So he did the right thing, the courageous thing and dismissed the case.

H. Hart

My first laps in the Courage were really satisfying, throughout the three free practice sessions, I bettered my lap times by 2 seconds per session. By doing so, I wasn't too far away from the regular prototype drivers in qualifying.

David Quarmby

Nelson was a very special kind of person, with huge courage, leadership and people skills but with huge flaws,

Arthur Rimbaud

one single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you. But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see eachother again...

Paul Rieckhoff

men and women of extraordinary courage and incredible capability. But it's time we had leadership in Washington to match that courage and match that capability.

Jim Volk

Maybe the psychology is changing. Maybe we get a little courage back here.

Robert Teeter

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Jason Varitek

Like every year, the personality of the team takes hold over time. It's something you develop as the season goes along. You don't have a personality that is set going into the year, because every year there's a different mix.

Chris Davis

Luke's favorite practice is the one where they didn't have Abby here because he got to take a leadership role. It was fun because they got to lead one another and develop teaching skills as well.

Michael Griffin

Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.

Mark Twain

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall. This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall, ... This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Robert Wilson

My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

Joel Stoneton

We're not big and strong, but we're a quick, fast team. We're not going to overpower you, but we can run around you to the outside. We're just going to spread the field and see what happens.

Dave Brogioli

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

Robert Brown

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Scott Runkel

Lee is a powerful kid. He's off to a pretty fast start and hopefully he'll stay hot.

Larry Schmit

Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able to stay fresh.

Amanda Palmer

Sean and Paul have been following the band's growth for the past two years and have a real understanding of what we're trying to capture. The record is going to be fast and furious, immediate and raw.

Robert Browning Hamilton

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Jim Tressel

Mike is strong as a bull, and a surprisingly fast guy. And he's one of those players whose motor only has one speed - all out. He plays so hard that he gives the other team all kinds of problems.

Robert Osborne

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Michael Williams

Last year, registration filled up in 12 to 17 minutes. In 2003, it took three weeks.

Tom Rathbun

Mountain streams and rivers that were orange when I was a kid are now filled with fish, are now lined with trees and rhododendrons, and that's progress.

David Eagleman

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Beth McNamara

One of our goalies is out sick and our other goalie Jordan McCormack was filling in and she did a great job.

Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Warren Stute

My horse didn't start off too great, but he's improving finally. He was immature a little bit, but he's starting to fill out.

Tiffany Hernandez

Now that Justine's leaving, someone has to fill her spot as the universal swimmer. She's good at everything, so I'm hoping that I will be the one.

Derek Allen

Obviously, Nate is important and we'll see what happens there, but we think people will fill the spaces and we will get through it. We have a lot to improve on after a 35-0 win.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

Ron Gardenhire

Lew gave it everything he had. It's not like he could've done anything different. We didn't get it. That's just the way it's going.

Guo Shurong

Many veteran craftsmen gave up their jobs of making New Year pictures in previous hard years.

Stan Heath

Sean (McCurdy) gave us some valuable, valuable minutes, too.

Dan Castellaneta

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Kevin Starr

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

Catherine Helen Spence

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Cathy Guisewite

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

David Brainerd

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Deepika Padukone

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

Edward Everett

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

William Sullivan

We're basking in the glow of negative inflation in the month of November.

Ricky Gervais

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Albert Schweitzer

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

J. Taylor

Several of the smart bettors were happy to be on.

Unknown

May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

Unknown

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold— And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.

Mitt Romney

No one can be happy with the kind of response which we've seen in New Orleans.

Retief Goosen

Obviously there's a long way to go still but I'm very happy to start off like this. You can't win the tournament in the first round so I'm just going to keep playing well and see what happens.

Chris Evert

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Tom Adams

No other 1942 film would touch those kinds of numbers.

Reggie Bush

I feel like I've been making those kinds of plays and those kinds of moves since I was 9 years old. It's God's gift. It's a blessing, and I'm just trying to make the most of that blessing.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Leona Peters

There are lots of things going on. People showcased the kinds of things they're doing in the communities. It was amazing.

Mo Ibrahim

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Jeff Chambers

MSU is on a limited budget. We don't have enough money to tape every athlete.

Joseph Volpe

Maybe with 'Parsifal,' because it's only three performances and a limited rehearsal time, we'll be able to get someone really good.

Margaret Gillett

Now we have space to move around in. We were pretty limited before.

Seth Godin

Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.

James T. Walsh

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Jennifer Freeman

We're limited as to what we can say,

Jalal Farzaneh

We were students on a limited budget. We had to move.

Michael Schroeder

Unlike a lot of retailers, they are somewhat limited in what they can offer. I just don't think they are ever going to make much money on their retail stores.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

Mark Rosenbaum

Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,

Bill Steele

Unlike soap or deodorant, which can be placed by marketing, shaving is very much performance.

Austin Boyce

We didn't think it would end like this. We thought we would have placed for sure this year.

Robert A. Schuller

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Adam Rita

We slapped him on (the list) when he was placed on suspension. But we understand he's going to the NFL.

Jannie Brenner

We placed second. This is the first year of the team, and today, we've got first- to eighth-graders here.

Jim Bryant

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

Thomas Blomberg

If they're not working, get rid of them.

Carlos Chitty

I could talk to him. He would ride in my car. We were really buddies.

Natalie Zea

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

Werner Herzog

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

Donald Trump

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

Azhar Usman

To me this is not just about standing on stage telling jokes. There's a lot riding on this.

Tito Jackson

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

Forrest Miller

We'd like to have him christen it, and have him take the first ride in it.

Al Pacino

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

Michael Scheuer

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Kurt Vonnegut

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Dan Quayle

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

H. L. Mencken

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

Patrick Rothfuss

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Learned Hand

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Pauline Hanson

Reconciliation is everyone recognising and treating each other as equals, and everyone must be responsible for their own actions.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Kathy Fackler

By treating them seriously, they're just on fire.

Michael Sata

This is our country. You are treating me like an animal, like it's not my country.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

George Jones

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.