Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Wallace

We have seen a continuation of the hotel recovery in almost all areas of the world helped both by higher occupancies and higher rates,

John Quinn

We have to get out of this rut of letting teams hang around and get back in the game. It's almost like we're playing from behind when we have the lead. We just have to finish out games better.

Dirk Nowitzki

We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.

Gary Milhollin

What the tapes show is that between the first gulf war and the second gulf war, Saddam Hussein had not lost his appetite for, or interest in, weapons of mass destruction. To the contrary, he was almost obsessed by them.

Mark Dindal

When everybody feels pretty good about themselves, and you have Champagne coming out of the water fountain, it's almost like we've got to burn the place down.

Duane Wallace

When your power bill is almost half of what your rent is it creates a real problem.

John M. Smith

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.

Melissa Elmer

We were almost tasting it. Girls that went through it took it pretty hard. It wasn't easy to come out on the losing end of that match.

Russ Suemnicht

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Jacky Teplitzky

There is a standstill situation. We all thought September was going to be a strong month, but that did not happen. The phones did not ring. Turnout at the open houses was low, lower than we had expected.

Ricky Gervais

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Brent Musburger

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Bret Harte

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Bram Stoker

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Bram Stoker

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

John Eaton

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Louis MacNeice

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Charlaine Harris

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

Carl Honore

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Irish Proverb

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

Charles Dickens

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Methods are the masters of masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Diego Maradona

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

Mike McCurry

They're up to political mischief and making a nuisance of themselves." ()

Spanish Proverb

Every one is wise when the mischief is done.

J. K. Rowling

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Cat Deeley

I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me

William Camden

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Dave Brat

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

Andrea Hirata

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Allen Zaremberg

We're trying to work together to resolve policy issues.

Louis Pitschmann

To say there is no policy is incorrect.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.