Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Flake

Our real leverage has come from the fear that DeLay will not have a post to come back to. They are deathly afraid of a leadership election in January.

Dyana Mason

Our question is what are they afraid of? Why do they feel they have to rush it? Why do they feel it's important to mislead voters on the ballot.

David Bowens

Pat loves Miami. He's not afraid to say it. But he knows he has a job to do for Kansas City. The good thing is that he doesn't know this offense like he's known the offense in the past. We really want to look out for Pat in that area, but Pat's going to play hard. I know he'll be ready. He'll be ready to hit, try to get some picks.

Miri Ben-Ari

Partnering with Reebok is a natural fit for me because they truly value artists who are not afraid to be different and stand out from the crowd. I am excited to work with Reebok on my new music video and thrilled to be part of their I Am What I Am campaign.

Barbara Boxer

Paul was never afraid to speak out when it might be unpopular, nor was he afraid to be on the losing side of a Senate vote.

Cris Williamson

Part of me wanted to say, 'It wasn't yours, it was mine.' But it's part of that iconic relationship. I was afraid I was going to lose my mind, like Virginia Woolf. The heart can break -- it's quite a resilient muscle -- but I don't know about the mind. It seems to be a creature of another sort.

Billy Joel

Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.

Tim Ehresman

Our offense hasn't been in sync for about a month now. It looks like were afraid to takes shots and for that matter make shots, and tonight we just didn't look like we were mentally prepared.

Jerry Parsons

Our main purpose is to empower abused children to not be afraid of the world they're in, to make a child feel secure in a scary time.

Barry Ritholtz

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Regarding these issues, certainly what is most important is to preserve and enhance the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait.

Dave Vining

Record wise, I knew we would have a winning record coming into this season, but I figured maybe we'd finish around 14-8. We had good kids, seven with experience, but we did much better than I thought we would. We did great, a lot better than expected. I certainly can't complain.

E. B. White

Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

Fernando Martin

Real will have 99 percent of its squad ready by June 30, that's for certain and will have a new coach in two weeks.

S. Walker

Regrets? Well, certainly I regret that I did that which got me into jail, ... Other than that, no. I've had a very roller coaster life, very roller coaster. And except for that -- which, of course, I regret exceedingly -- boy, no, I don't have any regrets.

Gene Luen Yang

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Anne Sinclair

Parts of the city have been waiting for their turns for years, and their turn has finally come. I'm not certain that there's a sense on City Council to change direction.

Scott Skiles

Paul pretty much has his way with us the whole night. There are certain rookies who come into this league and are ready to play and he is definitely one of them.

Patrick Walsh

Outside of my parents, what I learned at De La Salle has influenced me the most in my life. Obviously, there's a huge emotional impact.

J. J. Johnson

Riley was full of smiles that whole day. It was quite emotional because we just went to watch. We didn't think that would happen. But that is what Power Soccer is all about. The game is truly inclusive.

Beck

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

Joe Paopao

We never saw this coming. They played emotional football and, for the most part, they really had momentum and control.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Dave Orzel

Spenser did a good job, and Brandon did a great job in his first varsity game. That was a tough position to put a freshman in, but he responded.

Jason Gerken

Our team is very consistent, and I think our freshmen will live up to how they've been billed.

Ed DeChellis

Our freshmen will be stronger, tougher, better, our sophomores will become juniors. We'll have some guys who have been through the wars.

Jason Tuggle

Our freshmen stepped up and made play after play. I'm really proud of this group and what they've already accomplished.

Amber Magner

Our freshmen haven't played as well since we shook it up earlier. So I think we might go with some new players.

Tom Corbett

Our freshman group last year was real good. It's been good, fun practices because the younger girls are really pushing the older girls.

Gene Watson

Our two freshmen ran exceptionally well. Down the road, they could help us out on the varsity team.

Dennis Martell

Our two freshman pitchers pitched outstanding today. They stepped up big for us and pitched the way you'd hope they would when you recruit them.

Mamoru Ashimoto

Other than the U.S. payrolls data, there isn't any fresh market-moving factor.

Carl Sagan

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Ben Jorgensen

I was kind of stuck in that place where the only thing I could write about was through the perspective of me being dead, What to Do When You Are Dead.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Jonathan Littman

From most of these shows you get a different perspective,

David Wagler

From his perspective we know what he would have said -- he had no regrets.

Phil Parker

Tackling is not easy, you've got to have some toughness.

Joe Heacock

It still comes down to blocking, tackling and making plays.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Rosalind Wiseman

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness

Dan Mclaughlin

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.

Joe Gibbs

It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Jeff Bowden

If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.