Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

Kevin Caron

When we get beyond the Fed's decision in August, it then opens up the opportunity for technology to assert itself because of its strong earnings growth and take the market to higher highs and higher lows.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Thomas Erskine

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Peter Russell

We need to be a lot quicker in forming our defence and a lot more assertive when we go in for the tackle,

Gary Friedman

Some are trying to assert some control over their lives.

Ronnie Brewer

We knew they were a guard oriented team. That's what made their team go. We knew if we could make their guys take tough shots, we could control the pace of the game and kind of shut them down on defense.

E. O. Wilson

We know what it's like when the game gets out of control. We were on the losing side of it earlier this year, we know how the other team feels.

Lucy Caldwell

We know we can't prevent this from happening, but we can control the situation by planning for it.

Kathleen Vokes

We know from 13 years of experience that being ready, willing and able to defend our products and people, even in judicial 'hellholes,' is the most effective way to control litigation costs.

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Kirk Lewis

We are proud of the student who reported this. Students and staff are reacting just like we want. We tell them to take control of their campus.

Howard Eisen

We are at full control of a completely healthy spacecraft.

Dusty Baker

There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A.

Bayan Jabr

There are some forces out of order, not under our control, and not under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.