Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Peter Power

We're not going to say anything tonight, under no circumstances.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Marshall Hamilton

Whether they had the proper firefighting equipment nearby or not, I don't know, but we'll take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that if that same job was done tomorrow, that same fire couldn't happen.

Jorge Guerra

We're going to get the latest equipment that's out there.

Steve Mariucci

Usually, after our game, equipment people have to redo jerseys and sew them up and fix them. Typically, three or four jerseys get fixed.

Keerti Melkote

We knew we were putting our equipment and technology right in the middle of the hackers' playground, but we viewed this as the ultimate test of our network security implementations.

James Donahue

The plant was shut down from about 5 p.m. to midnight, and the equipment was turned over to (complete this project),

Carl Duke

When the new surveillance equipment comes out ... the better quality that we are getting ... you are going to see more and more of this ... us putting these pictures out. We need the public's help.

Ali Yunesi

Most of the shining objects that our people see over Iran's airspace are American spying equipment used to spy on Iran's nuclear and military facilities,

Mario Pescante

We're looking to find possibly the same equipment Mr. Mayer had in his private residence in Austria.

Melissa Fleming

We regret that they left. But we've kept an open office. We're storing our equipment there, leaving open the eventual possibility that our inspectors could return.

Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

Charles Dickens

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Akshay Kumar

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Frank Stronach

We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can succeed in life.

Chris Colfer

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Chris Bosh

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

Darren Shan

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

David Mitchell

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Dave Barry

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Autumn Nelson

We've set up a playground for them. They kind of like to play 'king of the mountain' and take turns running up and down.

Channing Tatum

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

Joy King

We used to come down and play on the playground on holidays.

Adam Dauksas

We'll play on a playground if we have to.