Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Johnson

We bent a little, but we didn't break. That was a big thing that we talked about all week, being good in the red zone.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Timothy Noah

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.

Ken Hayes

This probably couldn't have happened back then. The bent back then was historicism.

Alexander Pope

Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined

Taylor Wilson

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

Stephen Davis

My leg is fine. It got kind of bent up there and that hadn't happened in a long time, ... It feels pretty good, but I was kind of scared at first.

Lee Smith

Buck and I are somewhat alike. We don't get worked up or bent out of shape. Things are going to happen and you can't control it.

Rudyard Kipling

But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).

Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Krystyna Phillips

We actually get more people out here by appointment than during our open hours.

Guy Ritchie

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Susan Beal

Whether that other theater will remain open is yet to be seen.

Catherine Deneuve

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Robert Janssen

We are preparing like this thing is going to go (to trial).

Buddy Bell

We're going about it, quite frankly, that Zack is not going to be here in time to get ready for the rotation. We pretty much are preparing for the worst right now. That could change. I don't think it will.

Alex Pettyfer

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

Charli Thorne

We don't have to adjust. We've been preparing for this.

Alvin Wyatt

McCloud is the quarterback for this week. He's the quarterback we're preparing to go with.

Gary Pinkel

He has been preparing for this season since January.

Alison Jackson

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

Mario Pescante

Up until yesterday we were preparing an Olympics, starting today we are organizing.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

Daniel Handler

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Ambrose Bierce

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Duer Miller

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Benjamin Franklin

The only time not wasted is wasted time.

Nicolas Chamfort

The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.

Jim Henson

No time is wasted time

John Lennon

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.

Lady Gregory

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.