Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Davis

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

William Shakespeare

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

Nick Woodman

The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It's not good for that person because they're not succeeding in their role. And it's not good for the organization because it's just not working.

Jay Inslee

What the president did was wrong; he should be censured, but not impeached. Rick White and Newt Gingrich shouldn't be dragging us through this. Enough is enough. It's time to get on with the nation's business.

Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

Norman Black

We're getting very frustrated because the Teamsters have been dragging their feet and stalling these talks,

Stephan Jenkins

We're going to play really long tonight. They're gonna have to drag us off the stage tonight.

Lee Coppock

Unions drag down business, growth is slower, and right-to-work laws weaken the unions. So when the unions are weaker, you tend to have more economic growth.

Diana Wynne Jones

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

John Cox

We extended these plea offers, and we're very comfortable with what we offered and what was accepted.

Jack Foster

We extended out lead in the league, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Mike Taylor

We extended our press too much in the third quarter. They made some great passes and went to the middle on us very effectively.

Becky Ault

We're just monitoring the dikes right now and making sure the water isn't staying on them for an extended period of time.

Eula Biss

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

Jeffrey Sconce

Many shows this season ... had gruesome shots of women being brutalized and terrorized in very graphic and extended ways,

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alan Watts

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

James Allen

We want to see what's out there and is it worthwhile to take anything to the next level of funding.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

David Deutsch

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Michael Moriarty

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.'

Jim Boeheim

We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.

Chris Chocola

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chloe Bridges

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Chinua Achebe

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

David Suzuki

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year. We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

Stephen Stanley

We're in a pretty quiet time of the year, ... We've been pretty directionless today. Oil hasn't been doing much.

William Shakespeare

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

Edward Hopper

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

David Morrissey

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

Bill Pullman

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Bret Easton Ellis

I am gripped by an existential panic.

Kate Winslet

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

Amy Hempel

I get rational when I panic.

Bill Watkins

I think it's more of a panic on their part, ... It's not natural, what they're saying.

John Callahan

Going into the Rutland game, they know what's at stake. I'm not going to push the panic button.

Simon Perry

It got to the point where there was panic over nothing. But don't panic, it's not going to smash anybody.

Ray Nagin

We want you to take this very seriously, ... This not a test. This is the real deal. And I don't want to panic you but I wanted to make sure you understand.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.