Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pavle Jovanovic

We have to find three more tenths tomorrow. We have something in mind. We're just happy to be in contention for a medal.

John B. Keane

The reality is that we have two legislators who are very content with the situation as it is.

Stephanie March

When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors are hilarious.

Theodor Mommsen

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

Tom Watson

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.

Troian Bellisario

Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.

Toby Turner

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

Emraan Hashmi

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.

Kapil Sharma

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

Carlos Castaneda

Man has a dark side, yes, and it is called stupidity.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

Aaron Swartz

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Clarence Fountain

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us,

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Alan Thicke

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Alan Titchmarsh

I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

Charles de Lint

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Charles de Lint

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Ian Martin

The people of East Timor, whatever side of the issue they are on, are determined to have their say in this ballot.

Suzy Menkes

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Jack Barnes

The process will determine that (a replacement), ... It might not happen. Senator Eaton might be able to rally the troops.

Temple Grandin

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Richard Powers

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Norman Williams

We are going to look into these allegations and determine whether or not these people whose policies were canceled were (treated) in a fair and appropriate manner.

Paul Hawkins

This will only make us more determined to live in peace and respect each other and we can all play our part in that,

Candace Kimmett

She's versatile, can play all positions and dominates the net.

Keyon Dooling

There are going to be nights where he just totally dominates the glass. He has the potential to do that. He has the talent to do that. He has the work ethic to do it.

Charles Holliday

The pervasive impact of e-commerce dominates the discussion,

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Robert Douglas

He has fun out there. It's fun for him because he dominates the sport on that level. I think one more year, come back and finish up school, it's not going to hurt him.

Dwayne Roloson

He just dominates the play through the neutral zone.

Jimbo Cary

The music is down here. Pretty much mass media dominates everything (in the North).

Dwyane Wade

It's kind of scary where he's at right now, at 21 years old and the way he dominates games. If I didn't know him, I would be surprised (by his development). He's one of the most level-headed guys I've ever met, and he has a will to be the best.

Andrew Gould

This icy super-Earth dominates the region around its star that in our solar system is populated by the gas-giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn. We've never seen a system like this before, because we've never had the means to find them.

Carlos Castaneda

It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Charles Thomas

Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do.

Jarret Stoll

We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win.

Charlie Dent

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

Peter Cardillo

The CPI was good news but still leaves that question mark about energy prices. The gasoline hike of the past three weeks was not included in it.

Aaron Eckhart

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

Douglas Altabef

The real issue is that energy prices keep rising -- it's like an invisible tax on the market and the consumer.

Tony Bina

We set the tone right away and took the energy out them early.

Greg Todd

We know being a successful private school that we're under a watchful eye. We were very willing and open for the investigation. They spent a lot of time and energy looking at us, and we felt good about the investigation.

Brian Schmidt

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

Sherry Cooper

Worry not, the longest expansion in American history still has legs.

Michael Huyghue

We're looking at our options for putting an expansion team in St. Louis. We've met with Major League Soccer, had a feasibility study and made other inroads. At this point, we're very serious about it, but it's still in the planning stage and we're not ready to make an official announcement.

Carol Hively

Maine is one of the few states where we don't have a presence. Opening stores in Maine is part of our overall expansion plan. We are focused on growing in the U.S.

Mo Ibrahim

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Jim Boeheim

I don't want a doubling-type thing. I think there should be some teams added. I'm not looking at it like one or two. I'm not looking at 20 either. I think there should be an expansion of the tournament. Whatever seems to fit.

David May

If this range expansion continues, we're probably going to have more moose than in pre-Colonial times.

Yasser Arafat

No one single house to be added. Not any expansion to any settlement,

Anita Frazier

The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming.

Carlos Castaneda

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Carlos Castaneda

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Dale Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade

Agnes de Mille

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Charlotte Bronte

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...

Charles de Gaulle

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

David Guterson

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Carl Sagan

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Jeff Judkins

We have to go in and play with a lot of confidence. We know if we win we are in first place no matter what.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Tim Sheens

We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.

Marc Newson

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Bret Easton Ellis

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Maria Sharapova

When I do that, it means I'm not going to miss the ball.

Tracey Emin

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

Tim Finchem

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

Daniel Barber

I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.