Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

King Abdullah

Madness and evil. It is the work of the devil, ... Such acts cannot be perpetrated by any individual who has a sense of decency or humanity or justice or faith.

Susan Hill

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Nicole Hastings

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Judy Gold

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Bill Stokes

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Richard P. Feynman

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Manish Jha

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Roland Martin

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

Paul Stupin

Music is tremendously important for our show. The series is partially defined in the audience's eyes as a wonderful vehicle for incredible music.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Chris Eigeman

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

Peter Morgan

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

Robert Morse

This stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet, and a great many Hamlets have since murdered Shakespeare

Dr. Farrar

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

James Meade

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

Greg Ward

I think a sheriff must be street smart. In smaller departments like Geneva County, the sheriff is the one to train the deputies.

Doug Summers

I think it's part of the mayor's (Kevin Burns) push for Geneva to get a lot of restaurants in Geneva.

Jana Killen

We have goals for (opposing team) rebounds and they doubled it and some on what our goal is. We slacked off that, but Geneva did a good job of getting in there for those rebounds.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.

Kelvin Philpot

Geneva was ready and hungry for us. They just jumped on top of us real quick.

Gary Roberson

And besides, Geneva was here. I love history.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Gore Vidal

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.