Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what worked in the first period. We wanted to pass the puck into the net, not shoot it. It goes back to very simple hockey. Pucks to the net create excitement for everybody.

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what we did in the first period. That's when we shot and went to the net. After that, we started looking for the pretty play, and the pretty play wasn't there.

Trent Yawney

We abandoned what was working in the first period, and that was shooting the puck. We wanted to pass the puck into the net. In the first period we shot the puck and went to the net.

David Levy

We have not abandoned the SLA, ... Our gates are open.

Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now, ... The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Gifford Miller

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Nneka

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

Matt Walton

We've got eight freshman who are eager to play but we only had three spots open.

Stephen Vinson

Watching that does kind of make you want to turn the channel. But as low as we felt after that, I'm proud of how far our team has come this season. It's been a big turnaround. It makes us eager to play in the tournament again.

Kevin McGrath

We're so eager to play them again. We're just hungry for them.

Gary Cooper

Women really have an eagerness to hit things. These girls are athletes.

French Proverb

Lazy people are always eager to be doing something

Eric Brown

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

Jason McCartney

I don't think anything can prepare you for the emotion of Sunday, but I generally love the place and am eager to get back,

Ron Evans

I was just hoping for three or four good innings from him. We were eager to see what he could do as a starter. He did a great job.

Jaime Ray Newman

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Al Jourgensen

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

Frank Tyger

You can't be envious and happy at the same time

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

William Shenstone

Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise.

Michael Keaton

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

Patrice Servelle

He told us he was envious of us, that he missed it and would like to be with us. That he was with us in spirit, but would have liked to have been in the sled with us.

Maurice Cheeks

In the NBA, it?s a little different. It?s more of a job. I?m sure some NBA players -- I know myself -- are a little envious of just the feeling of it all. It?s a great feeling watching those players, the way they feel -- the feeling that comes out when they lose a game, the feeling that comes out when they win a game. It?s a great thing to watch.

Johnny Depp

You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be appalled.

Charles Caleb Colton

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

Charles Caleb Colton

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Charles Caleb Colton

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Edward Gibbon

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Elizabeth Montagu

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

Edmund Waller

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

Arthur C. Clarke

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

Bertrand Russell

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Trent Yawney

We want them to experience what it's like to be in that situation. This has been a hard year for everyone -- not just the kids, but everybody off the ice who are trying so hard to make this thing work.

David Burns

We want to treat everybody the same, ... provide the same level of service whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon.

Alan Henderson

We want to thank everybody who helped us,

Jamie Varley

We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.

Alexis Karel

We want to show everybody we belong. Our record doesn't matter. All those losses prepared us for this.

Larry Glass

We want to see something that's going to be a win-win for everybody and not just for one segment of the population.

Bengt Gustafsson

We know what we have to do. We know this is going to be a tough test, but we're here to win the gold medal. That's what we want ... that's what everybody wants. We just have to get the job done.

Levi Levine

We know we've got what it takes. It's not even a question. It's just a question of how much we want it. We've got to come out and play as hard as we can, and everybody has to be on the same page.

Shean Donovan

We know we need to play better. Everybody in here knows that.

Adam Allen

We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.

Chita Rivera

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

Saudi Arabia

We know what it feels like to be hit by terrorists. The fight is an international fight.

Mark Richt

We know what it feels liked to be here and win it, and we know what it feels like to be here and lose it.

David Brooks

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.

David Mitchell

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

Josh Brown

We've all put so much time in, and it's what we deserve. It's an unbelievable feeling. It feels great.

Geoff Blum

We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.

Darrin Zeer

We're in a mode where it feels like there's no free time, but there really is. To live a good life is not about going to a meditation retreat one weekend a year. It's about moment by moment, every day. You've got to train yourself, train yourself to be calm.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Bible Bible

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Pastor Nicholls

God is not interested in our small mentality and our foolish perceptions. God is interested in the people of this nation.

Greg Hampton

If we stop making those foolish mistakes, we'll be fine.

Ken Dulaney

I think they would be foolish not to support WAP. They're trying to push Web Clipping as a metaphor for surfing the Web, but I don't think they'll be that successful.

Dusty Baker

What do I want to find out for? ... I know already. I'd be foolish to try to find out at this point, right? I mean, this guy is going to hit until he can't even walk.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

Charles Caleb Colton

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Charles Spurgeon

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

Alan Jackson

I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...

Alan Alda

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

David Guterson

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

Alan Moore

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Chris Chelios

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

David Mitchell

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

Bryan Stevenson

I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.

Caroline Kennedy

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

Kurt Vonnegut

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

David Hume

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions...

Audrey Tautou

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

Audre Lorde

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Louis C. K.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Blaise Pascal

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Dave Davies

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

David Sze

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Bryan Singer

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Edward Hirsch

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

John Travolta

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Bella Freud

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Bret Harte

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Wayne Gandy

That wasn't the Saints of old out there,

Brett Favre

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Douglas Horton

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

Dorothy Day

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Vickie Warehime

It is being investigated as a suspicious death.

Ted Denny

There are some very suspicious circumstances surrounding these fires.

Bill Forsyth

Financiers are suspicious because I work in low-budget.

David Bloom

We are very suspicious of the U.S. market,

Gail Collins

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Catherine Tate

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

F. Stone

I'm suspicious of their story, ... They are not out of the woods in this one yet.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Tom Reich

This isn't a play to see what else is out there. He thinks he's better off not playing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's what he thinks about all day long

Charlie Chaplin

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

Sen. Gallegos

I think I can, but to be truthful with you, I don't know until I come to that point. There's going to be times when it's going to be difficult.

Brenda Ueland

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

Randy Mayes

I can get a feel for whether the person is truthful or not.

Camille Pissarro

Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

Roseanne Barr

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Thomas Jefferson

The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Roger Taylor

No sir, I don't think she's a truthful woman at all.