Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Brian Cashman

People keep acting like we have some kind of easy schedule the rest of the way because of the records of the teams we're facing, ... Well, don't be so sure. How much of this season have we spent playing to the level of the opposition?

John Tory

Some of these powers, both governance and otherwise, should probably apply to some of the other larger cities in Ontario, that are maybe not as large as Toronto, but are certainly big governments deserving of acting in a more independent fashion.

John Gordon Sinclair

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Craig Biggio

Some guy in the crowd was trying to be funny and he slapped her upside the head, acting like a 12-year-old, and he ran, ... It was his misfortune that he messed with a Jersey girl. She chased him down and caught him.

Jim Scott

Our goal is not to develop the world. I don't want the agency to have anything come out that makes it look like we don't know what we're doing or acting imprudently.

James Augustine

Our fans are spoiled. We're 20-4 and people are acting like it's the worst year in history. We have two home games in a row now and we have to be ready for them. We can turn this thing right back around.

Mat Staver

Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality - that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental and spiritual consequences.

Eric Dubin

Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer in a court of law. He also wants to avoid the stigma that O.J. Simpson got after his civil conviction.

Nabil Sha'ath

President Arafat has always wanted to go back to the peace process on the right basis. He was very clear. ... and said (the) Israeli attack has to stop first. The deployment of heavy forces and tanks and the disproportionate use of force has to end, and only this will be able to calm down the situation and bring back the peace process.

Benjamin Netanyahu

It is, in fact, the failure of the Palestinian Authority and of Mr. Arafat to keep the pledge that he gave my predecessor, Mr. Rabin, and that is we give them territory, they give us a pledge to fight terrorism,

Dick Cheney

If in fact Arafat will do what he in the past has said he will do, if he will actually deliver on the Tenet plan, if he'll move to put a lid on the violence and do what's required,

James Rubin

Frankly, we want to talk with Chairman Arafat about that schedule and what is possible, and thus take stock for us in trying to assess how realistic it is to make that schedule that's been laid out.

Ehud Barak

If a single crack will appear, Arafat will enter into it and crack the whole system,

Ehud Barak

We looked for an equilibrium point that would provide a peace for generations, ... but unfortunately Arafat somehow hesitated to take the historic decisions.

Daniel Taub

One of the factors here is what role Yasser Arafat will play. From some of the statements that he has been making immediately, he doesn't seem to be trying to move the Bethlehem situation to a smooth and quiet resolution. Unfortunately he seems to be trying to use it as another excuse to inflame international passions, and I think that Yasser Arafat could be playing a more constructive role in trying to bring this impasse to an end.

Yasser Arafat

He was the only security chief who Arafat blindly relied on.

Colin Powell

Mr. Arafat has not been playing a helpful role, ... And if he wanted to play a helpful role, he would be supporting Prime Minister Abbas, not frustrating his efforts.

Tom Knight

Refining problems are behind the higher prices today, which have pushed Gulf Coast cash prices extremely high

Woody Allen

Recently there has been a lot of controversy between the countries, and I would hope that now the two countries could put all that behind them and start to build on what really has been a great friendship,

Damon Galgut

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

Javier Aguirre

Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.

John Hughs

President Bush's speech relieved some fears that war is imminent, it boosted the overseas markets and gave us a little short-covering rally at the open, but I'm not that impressed. There's nothing behind it,

Jim Folkman

Our reputation is behind this. We want to make sure that when a house reaches a certain standard that it does perform at that level.

Chris Baca

Our players play a physical type of game. Some teams aren't used to that and don't like it, and feel we are playing dirty. But they were pushing our players from behind and knocked down a few.

Mike Beaumont

Patrick pitched well. He just didn't have anything behind him.

Kenny Gray

Payne had moments where he struggled with his control, but he pitched well. He had good defense behind him and that was good enough to get the win.

Lonie Glieberman

Our relationship is more important than he and I fighting over the phone every night over a CFL football team.

Alex Rodriguez

Our offense is very capable. We'll come out fighting tomorrow.

Jeb Bush

Our military will be fighting the oppressors of Iraq, not the people of Iraq.

Jim Dilling

Staying ranked in the top 20 in the world is another (goal) that I have been fighting all season as well. With this (recent) jump I am sitting 17th as of now.

Victoria Clarke

some of the toughest fighting could lie ahead.

Shaukat Sultan

Our fighting bunkers are completely intact because their construction is very robust,

Brittany Thomas

Right now what we're fighting is the principal's right to do it.

Groucho Marx

Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor; which is probably more than she ever did.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Andres Obrador

Start working. Meet your responsibility, because you still have time left in office.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Phil Garner

Roger's left hamstring is slightly strained. He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along,

Bill Dixon

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Dee Smith

Just as one of our spotters to the north called in that he'd spotted a tornado, another one from the south said he saw another one. But they went around and pretty much left us alone.

Tim Moe

Janae was unbelievable. She's realizing she has three weeks left and she doesn't want to go out in three, she wants one more.

Brian Ballard

I think his legacy is pretty well assured.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Bob Harlan

I don't think his legacy will ever shrink.

Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

Al Davis

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Terry Belanger

making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book.

Eduardo Paes

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Gary Arnold

When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of the entertainment, so it kind of reinforces the legacy of people of short stature being used in entertainment.

Susan Backman

Residents can see the improvements made to the outside of the buildings.

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

F. Schumacher

I was on the outside and I tried and there was no opportunity.

Tom Zbikowski

I think to the outside people, it's not what they expected, but it is what we expected.

Terry Wallace

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Larry Bowa

That was a terrible call. A terrible call,

Jerry Davis

I think it's terrible that we can only do it at the high-school level.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Violence doesn't equal strength.

Bhagat Singh

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Alana Stewart

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Benito Mussolini

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Caprice Bourret

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Cesar Chavez

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I do not like violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.