Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

Mike Royer

We know from the Redmond game that we can't overlook any team. It's nice to play Bend after Pendleton does, but we need to take care of business on our home floor (against Crook County).

Lin Stadler

We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively bend but don't break.

Brene Brown

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

Scott Stewart

We bend to the degree that we can bend, but he still must get his work done.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

Casey Randolph

We were trailing 30-28 heading into the final match. We bumped up our 125-pound wrestler, Steve Cox, to 130 and he came through with a pin for us to win. It was unbelievable.

Greg Haga

We rested a few kids and bumped some others up tonight. We tried to get as many seniors in the lineup as possible. It was a good chance for some of the kids.

Jack Michael

When we got bumped up to Class B and somebody else did too, we couldn't be in it anymore. There probably aren't many Class C teams around anymore.

Frank Reed

She is bumped and bruised. She will be very sore for a while, but she will be fine. She is very lucky.

Steve Segadelli

Last year we turned things around by going 17-7, but got bumped out short of state. It's so great to see this group of girls climb the mountain this year. We are a team to be contended with, and we are excited to be going to state.

Deb Hauser

Many people think we already do it that way. If we make the change, some of the schools will be bumped up and Hurley could be one of those.

Kevin Huck

We knew they didn't have a 171-pounder and Daniels didn't get to wrestle last week because Carthage bumped their wrestlers.

Nick Lidstrom

I don't think it was a penalty. I felt his stick and that was about it. I heard the crowd go nuts out there, but I didn't feel I bumped into him.

David Branshaw

I feel sorry for the guys who got bumped out because of Eric and I, but the season didn't end last week. Nobody was locked in until that last putt went in.

Augusten Burroughs

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

Gary Small

This suggests the technology may be useful in early diagnosis and in tracking people over time.

Kevin Williams

We thought it was just maybe he, something with his back or something that could be cured, something that he could you know just nurse for a while and then he'd be OK . He could go back to work. So it's pretty devastating to get such a diagnosis as ALS,

Corrie Brown

We made the diagnosis and the farmer went home with vaccines for his flock. So I like to think we did a very important thing.

David McMillan

If that's the case, the earlier we can do it after diagnosis the better.

Nancy Murphy

He drives, he gardens, he sees friends and family. We're lucky he had early diagnosis and got early treatment to stave it off.

Keith Dugger

We don't have a diagnosis at this time except for the stomach discomfort.

David McKay

I think if he had proper diagnosis and treatment, he'd still be alive.

Alfred P. Sloan

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Bear Bryant

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Charles Manson

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Armistead Maupin

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Ted Taylor

Since my knees wore out, I quit officiating.

Matthew Wright

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,

C. S. Lewis

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Dusty Baker

There is a little light strain we have to watch. Slight leg thing. It's not serious.

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Diane Watson

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

David Strathairn

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

David Prowse

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

Bryan Stevenson

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Jeremy Shockey

We know he's up there smiling, ... But in the same sense, he's probably saying, 'Get ready for San Francisco.'

Lee Johnson

We'd get the shack arranged, get it ready to pull, and would find more damage, ... They used every trick in the book, but they got it moved.

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Brett Gardner

Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Agnes Macphail

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Jason Bay

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

Bruce Campbell

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Brit Marling

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.