Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Vernor Smith

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Kerry Thornley

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

Kevin Yoder

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Sathya Baba

Love is the basis of all forms of worship of which Abraham was the human prototype.

The Archives

Look, you know and I know that it's either Abraham or Einstein, but dammit, a free beer is a free beer!

Brooks Bollinger

We're just trying to stay upbeat,'' Abraham said.

Robert H. Connelly

Riders that spy the most Lincoln sites will be eligible for a prize drawing. Participants will win either way because they'll have the opportunity to ride where Abraham Lincoln once walked.

Bruce Feiler

One of the reasons Abraham is an important figure in the world today is because he is not a saint,

Bible Bible

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? / Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: / And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Thomas Monaghan

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

James Wolfe

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Douglas Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

John Byng

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.

Horatio Nelson

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

David Milne

Jim Reid and I started the company as a design company, as I said earlier, back in '85 and and we transformed it into a product company in 1995.

William Bligh

The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn.

Cory Booker

We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.

Jim Gaylor

We have to go and play them down there Friday and I'm sure they are going to remember. I'm sure it's going to be an exciting time over at Lenoir City for that game.

Mike McDaniel

We have to get the water out of the city or the nightmare will continue.

Arthur Hardy

We have no model for this. Will the city ever be back to normal? We don't know. All I can tell you is we're going to enjoy this Mardi Gras.

Cynthia Rezentes

We have moved not one inch. There are options that the city could have been approaching.

Roxanne Rogers

We want people in Valley City to see how normal meditation is, and how healing.

Kirby Nishikawa

We want him to leave the city with a good feeling about Winnipeg.

David Nicholas

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

I. Stone

The fact of the matter is I've got some new commitments, ... My focus on those new commitments would really preclude any intense kind of focus on city issues. It's not that I'm ready to move on - it's very bittersweet.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Tom Browning

With the players we lost, we were hoping we'd be happy to be able to put together a formidable defense,

Barton Gellman

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Steve Perkins

He had better velocity than he's had and he had good location. Those guys are formidable hitters, and we knew that.

Joseph Smith

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Craig Brewster

Matching their strength will be a priority. Regardless of who is picked, they will be a formidable side.

Jerry Sanders

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor,

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Charles de Gaulle

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Matt Sokolowski

The procedure went really well and a full recovery is expected.

Gina Johnson

We use Jennifer as our primary weapon in the full court. She's leading our team in 3-point percentage, and we need her around the paint.

Terry Richardson

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Eric Whitacre

A really good poem is full of music.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Rodney Michael

We did get the tanks full (Sunday) night, for the first time.

Pia Zadora

I'd like to keep going, to keep exploring. It's like anything else there's no way you can reach any kind heights or potential in your first film.

Charlie Rowe

Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.

Lon Carter

It always comes down to times, heights and distances.

Nathan Lump

Queens is a part of New York that a lot of people don't go to and really should. Walking down the streets in Jackson Heights is in many ways like taking a world tour.

Jeff Pyle

We've reached heights that people in this town have never seen.

Robert G. Allen

I'd rather see new heights when I'm 65.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Charles de Secondat

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Margaret DiNinno

Right now that's where it stands to be.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Carl Bernstein

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

C. S. Lewis

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Agnes Repplier

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Aasif Mandvi

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Charlotte Bronte

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Ricky Gervais

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.