Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

Ann Coulter

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

Anthony Kiedis

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Rob Lowe

I have other obligations now-the show, my family, my life...though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Ida Tarbell

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Mark Twain

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

Oliver Reed

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Marya Mannes

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Michael Hurst

Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.

Jessica Martinez

Missing them is a big deal, but I think the rest of the team, the rest of the players knew what was on the line, and everyone just stepped it up and played harder throughout the second half.

David Miliband

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

Angus King

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

Natalie Cole

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Corey Woods

Obviously, it seems to me that if turnout is low, it's harder to get 50 percent plus one.

Tina Fey

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Tyler Murovich

When I hear stuff like that it reminds to work harder and stay in the weight room.

Cassie Ventura

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.