Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Levy

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.

Sue Kelly

Working toward this goal of helping local businesses grow, I have been an ardent supporter of reducing the tax burden.

Sandra Cisneros

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

O. J. Simpson

What we did, even the most ardent fan didn't expect from us this year. (The players) can't possibly understand what they've accomplished.

Ella Wilcox

Oh! what are years? A ripe three score and tenHold often less of life, in its best sense,Than just a twelvemonth lived by other men,Whose high-strung souls are ardent and intense.

William Story

Give me the old enthusiasms back,Give me the ardent longings that I lack, --The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth,The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .

William Story

Give me the old enthusiasms back, Give me the ardent longings that I lack, -- The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth, The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .

Peter DeFazio

I said to Mr. Bowles, 'That would be like me saying to you that the only reason that you were an ardent supporter of fast track is because you're a very wealthy man with a very large stock portfolio and you're making money, tons of money, because of these trade policies,

Peter Grandich

Gold continues to defy the bears, skeptics and even ardent bulls all of whom continue to pay little or no attention to one of the most powerful factors driving the secular bull market.

James Carville

Maybe it comes back stronger. No one forgot how to play the saxophone or how to cook or write. Or have a good time. That's all still there. Calamities and disasters are part of New Orleans' history. This too shall pass.

Bible Bible

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Larry Wall

We're still trying to get a handle on this thing, but it is too soon to put firm numbers on the damage. This is one of the worst calamities we've been through and it is one of the worst I've seen as far as hurricane damage.

Hui Liangyu

The Party and the government are affectionate to the people though typhoon and other calamities are merciless, ... We hope you will resume your work and rebuild your homes in a high morale as soon as possible.

L. Estrange

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

Edward Jenner

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others

William Archer

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Mara Wilson

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

Greg Rosenblum

There was shouting. There was hostility during the deliberation. There was adamant disagreement, but ultimately everyone respected everyone else's point of view.

Paul Saffo

The problem has not been hostility to technology; the problem has been big egos.

Lutfullah Mashal

We know that he has been killed, but do not know whether it was because of personal hostility or because he once had joined the Taliban,

Judy Carter

You go, you breathe, and when you come back, whatever hostility has been going on is usually gone.

Jon Stewart

I have a lot of hostility.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Hugh Johnson

I think the market has managed the inevitable profit-taking very well, but there's still a lot of skepticism out there,

Takenori Ugari

Looking at the situation of Japanese mobile phone handset makers, we thought that it was inevitable to tie-up with a major player in the world which produces some 50 million to 60 million handsets a year.

Kevin Connors

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

Robin Eames

If these protests aren't halted soon, it is inevitable that someone will be killed,

Doug Harris

We want to try and get more people out to introduce our crossbows, this is the second year for us with the crossbows, to come out and shoot them.

Sergei Lavrov

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Michael Burkett

Whenever you introduce a new product, you introduce risk.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Greg Hand

From the very beginning, we always said that when you introduce a new mark, sales will increase.

Charlie Brotman

For me, to have this opportunity to introduce presidents of the United States -- I'm overwhelmed,

Zhang Jie

I think many, many things are different here from China, so I'd want to see all kinds of things. I would like to introduce myself to real American people, real American life.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

Chosun Ilbo

For the sake of the remaining two years of his administration, Roh should seize the occasion to find a replacement for the man.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Collins

On occasion during cross-examination, the defendant was tearful and perhaps remorseful.

Evan Snapper

But there are occasions when separate filings make more sense. For example, when one taxpayer has lot of itemized deductions and the other taxpayer has very little income.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

Michael Starke

I thought we rose to the occasion and played well.

John Neff

(We can put together something) for any occasion you'd want to give a gift,

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Rebecca Loos

Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly want. Not even David.

Gregg Zenerovitz

I think we prepared as much as we possibly could. We've done everything we can to improve.

Herb Vincent

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

Michael Young

I think he's doing all he can possibly do, probably.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Anton Yelchin

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Clifford Garnto

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Paul Tagliabue

to play in the state in which they're franchised.

Susan Hill

We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

John Gibbons

I don't think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It should just be one start.

Gary Hume

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Pope Francis

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!