Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Stark

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

Martin Brodeur

We have no excuse to not get back to where we were at or even better. I think the competition will be greater from now on because of the stretch drive. Some teams are going to try to secure playoff spots. Some teams are going to try to get back in the mix. Some teams, like us, are trying to stay alive and move up with the big guys.

Jane Mullan

We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

Alan King

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

Charlotte Bronte

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Dan Kelly

We've staved it off for 15 years, but we have to pay the piper -- the time is here. To use money just to keep a dwindling school alive is not wise. I understand that it's difficult, but looking at it overall, it's not the board's fault enrollment in particular schools is going down, and it's not the board's fault that families have to move to Tracy to buy a house.

Peg Bracken

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

Larry Wachtel

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

Larry Wachtel

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4 1/2-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

Frank DeSalvo

When he dropped his hands to his waistband, the officers are trained to assume he's going for a weapon. That's what the punches were about. Officers who don't assume a suspect is going for a gun end up dead.

Tim Salmon

We were totally in Chicago's position. We led the whole way, and for a long time, it was just assumed that we were going to play in the postseason.

Jesse Benavidez

We've seen each other once and you can't assume both pitchers are going to have the same games they did last time. I think both of us are going to play more small ball than usual.

Greg Panter

We have relied upon certain flows over the last 20 years. If House Bill 800 passes, we have to assume the minimum.

David Brown

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

Indonesia is a very huge country, geographically and in number of people, and there is still a lot of growth in the income level; It is very easy to assume there is a lot of demand for travel.

Carlton Cuse

I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Katharine Weymouth

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Ken Cohen

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Carlos Castaneda

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

Carlos Castaneda

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Dale Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade

Agnes de Mille

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Charlotte Bronte

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...

Charles de Gaulle

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

David Guterson

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Carl Sagan

By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

George Parnham

We want to save ourselves as much of his future as we can.

Patrick Callahan

We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.

Mohammad Khan

We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Luiz Scolari

We've shown how the future can be -- more cheerful, more united.

Kris Allen

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

Frances Johnson

The people of Liberia can be proud that they have successfully participated in this important step for the future of their country.

Tom Rath

I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

Carol Leifer

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

Carol Shields

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Carlos Queiroz

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

Reg Pullen

We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sam Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Natasha Trethewey

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Edward Snowden

There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

Brandon Sanderson

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Daniel Goleman

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Eli Broad

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

S. Hughes

This is shedding like a cat, ... Right now, it's so fragile, it has no structural integrity.