Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Kim Smith

Make sure that you choose the right agency... there are a lot of scams out there. Never do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Christine Anderson

Making music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I could choose whether to be very famous right now or respected and understood a hundred years after I die, I'd choose the second option.

Ashley Young

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.

Ric Edelman

Left to their own devices, (investors) naturally choose safety and it's one of the worst decisions they can make,

Sarah Breathnach

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the ''good life'' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

H. Hunt

Leslie (Alexander) is the practitioner. I'm very interested in why people choose to poison the things they are going to eat.

Mary Wormington

Many people will choose Texarkana as their new home because of its hospitality.

Howard Opinsky

Shareholders lose when companies choose to settle investigations motivated by political ambition, fueled by threats and settled out of fear.

Gary Vest

Obviously, most people who filled out the surveys don't know what we do. The law defines the kind of projects we do.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't think any one game defines a season. I don't like to put all those eggs in one basket. Never have. Don't see as I ever will.

Douglas Alexander

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Jeff Siegel

The question is who defines 'regularly' and what does it mean?

Omar Ahmad

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

Vince Staples

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

William Shatner

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

F. Sionil Jose

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Leila Janah

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Rick Perlstein

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

Paul Henderson

Obviously, it was a defining moment for us as Canadians. I hear it every day, and it still is. It's never going to go away. We were voted the Team of the Century, and the goal was voted the sports moment of the century.

Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

Gavin O'Connor

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

Max Lawson

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

Lisa O'Hare

I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Tony Fadell

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

Steve Harmon

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Gustavo Kuerten

My goal now is to be fully recovered and to be in great shape I need, at least, six weeks of intense work,

Janne Niinimaa

Obviously those names are not at the level of the names we lost, if you look at them on paper, ... But they are fully qualified.

Jeff Bagwell

For so long, it's been, 'OK, he's playing first base. Don't even worry about him in spring training. But it's a different story now, and I fully understand that. That part has been a little weird for me, but that's the way it is right now.

Raymond Kelly

fully executed ... so it's possible there could be more arrests.

Mahmoud Abbas

fully accounted for and used in the way it was intended.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97% back now, ... It is very hard. ... Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I'm fully recovered, yeah.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

Jim Bradley

On the run itself we have 92 barricades and over 300 cones.

Dan Aykroyd

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Allen Settle

The project itself was not voted on in 1999,

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Ken Klee

Momentum switches in a heartbeat, ... I thought we were taking it to them, then there was one extraordinary play by their guy. ... I'd like to have it over again.

Jack Straw

one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.

Matthew Taylor

Odd. I will remember that moment till the day I die.

Don McCormack

Now the momentum is in our favor, ... We will just try to ride it as long as we can because we are on a roll.

Aaron Brown

New Orleans dodged a bullet. It was the moment for viewers and in some respects for me that we understood it was not getting better, it was getting worse.

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Angus MacMillan

Fundamentals are just taking a back seat at the moment (to funds).

Deepak Chopra

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Sarah Hill

We were challenging the keeper. We had a wonderful passing game.

Vin Laczkoski

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

Jim Press

To us, it's not a passing phase but a vital technology for the 21st century.

Paul Hewitt

You look at the stat sheet and see we had 27 turnovers, I don't think there's anything else I can point to. They're long and they really got out in the passing lanes, and we didn't react to it very well.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Brea Grant

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Courtney Gains

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Victor Diaz

You know it, man. Every at-bat this spring was like the World Series for me. I'm just going to go out there and be ready.

Christopher Golden

'Baltimore' the series is inspired by all kinds of things, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Dracula.'

Christy Romano

Developing a series is a next step for me.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Chris Crocker

No. No, no, no. We thought we were good. We just wanted to put it all together. Put it together and play together as a team.

Patrick Sheehan

Now we'll have to get together and work out what to do,

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Dennis Quaid

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Dennis Crowley

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

Edgar Allan Poe

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

Eddie Vedder

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence...

Ed Miliband

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.