Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

Ashwin Sanghi

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

Kathryn Harrison

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Kathryn Harrison

I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

John Holt

We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.

Ron Hutchins

This project provides a unique opportunity for the students and faculty at Georgia Tech to gain experience with a compelling new platform for next-generation wireless applications.

Laila Ali

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Kate Reardon

There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

Elizabeth Pena

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Carl Ragasa

We destroyed everyone in the first tournament up there. We won everything by submission.

Atharva Veda

The Perfect Lord is All-pervading everywhere; He destroys the poison of Maya. I am rid of the three-phased Maya, dwelling in the Pure Lord.

David Beckham

We're in form. When we make the most of our potential, we can destroy any team we come up against.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Tom Thomson

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

Emilio Butragueno

We want to reflect and in the next few weeks we'll make a decision.

Jovon Johnson

When you run a blitz, a lot of things have to happen. It might take a few games for it to feel natural.

Ryan Gentles

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Jimmy Chupp

We have played a lot of passing teams, so it's kind of like the first few games got us ready for this.

Benedict Arnold

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.

John Breeding

We've sold quite a few already this year.

Kathy Drea

We've seen this happen in other states. After the first few pass (restrictions) and people see the sky doesn't fall, then it goes very quickly.

John Glover

We have responded to several grass fires in the last few weeks, but there have been no structure fires. For us, it has been considerably more than we normally run.

Jacques Santini

There is a lot of fatigue, so we need to take things step by step, ... There is a lot of physical and psychological pressure when you play every few days.

Chris Brady

We were trying to force things too much. We were too impatient.

Charlotte Bronte

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Randy Roach

We've seen the Gulf of Mexico relocate. The force of nature is something to behold.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We shall run independently ... We shall run as an independent and self-supporting force.

R. Robinson

We set the tone from the start of the game that we were going to play hard and make it tough on them. We were able to force them out of a lot of stuff that they were running comfortably in the first game.

Stephen Colletti

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Tony Hale

But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him... he's such an older masculine force that I remember thinking, 'Wow, his voice makes me sound like Pee-Wee Herman.'

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates. I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Terri Cash

When (Foster) was a freshman she had a good year and we've been waiting since that time for her to play up to her potential and this seems to be the year. She's taken on a leadership role with our team. It wasn't quite expected, but she's stepped into the role.

Jim Calhoun

When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.

Butch Beard

We have played only one home game. When you do that with freshmen and sophomores, this is what happens.

Chris Carlisle

There are a lot of good sticks out here today. Our guys are swinging great, and most of them are fresh to the course.

Mike Wheeler

We're just trying new stuff. You've got to make some changes, give the young kids a chance. You saw three sophomores and a freshman out there tonight. Some of the younger kids put in a lot of time during the summer. We're shuffling people in. It's tough.

Bill Potoczny

This was a solid start for us. Our veterans played well and the freshmen did a great job in their first competition. They had high intensity and they did a great job of putting opponents away when they had the chance.

Katia Winter

If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.

John Galliano

The perfume is sweet, like the girl, and is young and a fresh reinvention of Miss Dior.

Lance Gross

I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

Sharon Stone

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Erika Eleniak

I didn't have a pool growing up, and we went to the beach to lay out and get sun.

Elie Saab

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

Juvenal

To lay down one's life for the truth.

James E. Faust

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Bill Gates

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Albert Jones

When I got there he was laying on the ground. He was hollering and waving his arms.

Tamara Feldman

I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

Marie de France

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.

Charlie Cook

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

Charlie Cook

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Vladimir Putin

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

Andrew Grossman

Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differently.

Gordon Davidson

We've been talking pretty regularly through all this.

Anton LaVey

I see nothing wrong with robbing somebody on the street.

William Tecumseh Sherman

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

Alan Kay

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Thayer David

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Jeff Pendergraph

We know we can't just be satisfied with this.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Charles Baudelaire

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Brian McKnight

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Arthur C. Brooks

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.