Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Steve Erickson

Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Chuck Hall

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

Steve Kessel

People have told us it's a way to both sample new authors and stay in touch with beloved authors between books.

David Conyers

'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.

Dave Morris

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Donte' Stallworth

Other than us staying here for a while, I don't even see myself as a victim because there are people who have lost family members, have lost everything they worked for in life and don't know when they're going to get their next meal or their next bottle of water. It's easy for me to stay focused knowing that those people are the ones who are struggling and not me. I've been blessed enough to be able to get out of there and get some of my things out of there.

Gerell Robinson

Man, I thank God that I am blessed with the talent God has given me and where I am at today. I don't know where I would be without him. My linemen opened holes and my recievers got open and we all clicked. This was the first game where we completed a whole game, instead of just playing half of it. Sometimes the it just doesn't go your way in life and that is what happened tonight. We will come back solid next year and God willing I will be the leader I need to be to get our team in Sun Devil Stadium.

C. S. Lewis

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

C. S. Lewis

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

C. S. Lewis

But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

C. S. Lewis

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

Catullus

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

Carrie Underwood

My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Bethany Hamilton

My faith in God is a huge part of my life, and yeah He has blessed me with an amazing family, and group of friends. In the Bible he tells us to think positively about ourselves, to not be down on ourselves. So I just try to live the way He wants me to, and make the best decisions I can.

Elaine Pagels

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.

Sathya Baba

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.

Thomas Ken

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

Blaise Pascal

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Catherine Ponder

I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.

Granth Sahib

Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Divine Guru, one's fears are erased and dispelled.

David Liu

My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,

Basil Hume

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Carmelo Anthony

Regardless of who they sent at me, I was going to the hole. We won the game, that's the only thing I'm happy about.

John Dingell

People here are happy about her, and that includes me.

Kim Collins

Surprisingly the weather was excellent. I am particularly happy because I haven't been winning much this year.

Lorrin Lee

SUCCESS is a journey, not a destination. Make your life a fun-filled, joyous, and happy journey lived with passion.

Dean Ellis

Steve has been playing really well that the last two games. I'm really happy to see him perform like that.

Thomas Hearns

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't, ... But I must live my life.

Doug Stoffel

Overall, I was very happy with our level of play.

Simon Khan

Overall, I'm happy but a little disappointed with this morning,

LaDainian Tomlinson

Out of everybody, people are the most happy he made it. It was long overdue for him.

Donna Roberts

Our main fundraiser is the gala. We raised $200,000 during the gala and our hope is to raise $50,000 here today.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Jeanette Siemens

Our leadership was well represented and we hope it will be again.

Dan White

Our members look for leadership from us and hopefully they'll take our advice. The majority said they liked what Culver had to say and that's where the endorsement went.

Helio Castroneves

People might see an opportunity, but I hope people are more patient a little bit, ... This is the last road course, but there is nothing I can do. It's out of my control.

Peter Jensen

Sure there are things that are discouraging. But I'm never going to lose hope.

Bart Schouten

Sure, some words have been exchanged. They've been talking about training together next year, and I hope they still feel that way.

Ben Tate

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put the 'boom' on me -- knock me out. I just laugh. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we are. I get to show what I can do a little bit.

Nomaindia Mfeketo

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

C. S. Lewis

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

C. S. Lewis

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

Gary Capaldi

I have never had an undefeated team. We are 16-0, but honestly, it does not seem like it. Our motto is to stay hungry and stay humble and these kids have done that.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Jim Stewart

He's a very humble person. When it comes to personal milestones, that's not what he's in it for. He's in it for the kids.

Anthony Fauci

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.