Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

George Diller

Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond,

Ian Roberts

Let's begin looking at it now. Let's not wait until the last minute.

Russell Henderson

Let us make a demonstration on behalf of all those who have lost homes in our city, and in more than 1100 cases, lost their lives because the security we paid for was not there to begin with.

Adoniram Judson

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

Sandy Smith

Make it a priority and if you have little kids, start right at the beginning so they know there is no other way of doing it.

Connie Allen

Luckily, Chelsea hit those free throws at the end. If we would have made them at the beginning, it wouldn't have been that close, but we made them when it counted.

Tony Cox

Mailers are sensing that customers are ordering later and later, and responding by putting more catalogs in the mail at the beginning of December.

John Rooney

Let's have a good season, that's it. That's all I've said from the very beginning. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Rick Perlstein

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Amber Frey

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Marc Solomon

McAfee's top priority is the protection of its customers. Our new VirusScan product automatically blocks spyware before it runs on the customer's system and causes damage. We know the rigorous testing products are put through by PC Magazine, and we are very honored by this award.

B. R. Hayden

One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.

Matt Painter

When he makes good decisions, he is going to give us production. I think tonight he did a good job of that. He's got to be a guy who blocks shots, rebounds and is very active.

David Thompson

I don't think we're going to find too many running backs, whether it's 1-A, 2-A, 3-A or 4-A that are as good as that kid. He reads his blocks well. He's a strong kid. He's got good speed, and he's elusive. That makes for the total package for a running back.

Steve Tisch

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Roman Oben

I grew up with guys who would run circles around me intellectually, ... But I always had opinions about things. You kind of had to when you grew up going to school 10 blocks from the White House.

Lleyton Hewitt

I got out of the blocks well today, ... I went out there with a game plan and just executed it. I did what I needed to do and didn't feel that under pressure.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service.

MaryEllen Elia

Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.

John Best

Making a left turn onto Sawmill Road (from Sawmill Forest) is difficult if not downright dangerous. The last thing this community needs is another fatality due to shortsightedness.

Richard Opper

Lewistown is not unique in having contamination problems, but what is unique is the way the community faced up to the issue. They got together and faced it head on.

James Browning

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

Mike Kearney

Last year was the first year that the community 100 percent funded it on its own. So we put some of that away, and would like to eventually start an endowment ... but we're just so happy that we finally crested the hill and that we are well on our way.

Dan McAllister

Last year we raised $140,000; but our goal this year is to raise $250,000 to ensure that the neediest and most deserving students get what they need to graduate and become successful community members.

Ted Kennedy

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

Henry Hubble

Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.

Richard P. Feynman

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Samuel Coleridge

Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it

Mufi Hannemann

One of the things we discovered is that we may have to do this periodically.

Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time

Bertrand Russel

One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics

K. Chesterton

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Tina Fey

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

Ellen Key

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

David Foster Wallace

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

Marcel Proust

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

Kevin Spacey

Lester goes through not only a spiritual and emotional reawakening, but he gets pumped up, ... I had to work with a trainer for about four months and then every day on the set, twice a day.

Robert Gottlieb

'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

J. Taylor

Now we can form an emotional relationship. It's all relative to the performances of the actors around him.

Todd McCarthy

Newell tries to find the emotional reality in material that, until now, has been used more to showcase fantasy and wonder.

Regina Miller

Obviously, it was pretty emotional for everyone. She didn't remember much. But when I walked into the hospital, she did remember my face.

Elbert Hubbard

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Ehud Olmert

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Mariella Frostrup

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Deepak Chopra

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Abdu'l Baha

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it...

Dick Cheney

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

Tim Hardaway

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

A. R. Rahman

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

C. J. Mahaney

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Yuvraj Singh

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Scott Wilson

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

Michael Palin

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

Gay Talese

He was a sex junkie with an insatiable habit.

Natalia Makarova

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

Loren Eiseley

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Nic Beaver

Mental toughness is what got us through the game.

Jeff Suppan

Mentally, I think is the key, staying mentally prepared in a number of ways,

Brad Shaw

Mentally and physically, I didn't think we were sharp.

Edvard Munch

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

Maria Sharapova

I feel like I'm mentally tougher out there,

Steve Roberts

I was taken off-guard by our start. I thought our team was prepared mentally and emotionally. As much as they spread the field, there's a lot of running room. Even if you play perfectly.

Zabian Dowdell

I was surprised that he played. He's a strong kid, mentally and physically.

Retief Goosen

I worked on my temper and worked with Jos from 1998 to 2002 on the mental side of the game.

Phil Willard

She's a special kid. She just has that mental toughness.

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Dogen

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Stephen Manes

What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad.

Gunter Blobel

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

Jacki Weaver

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

Christopher Molineux

Sometimes things are most truly revealed by the illuminance of twilight

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

Alan Ball

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Bobby Valentine

Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess.

Elizabeth Kostova

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Unknown

May the most you wish for be the least you get.

Goran Ivanisevic

Of course, I really wish I was out there playing,

Mick Cronin

Obviously, I wish we could have had him. Things happen. What are you going to do?

Edsger Dijkstra

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

Eddie Vedder

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Eddie Vedder

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down....

Deepak Chopra

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Deepak Chopra

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.