Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Haden

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Suzy Buchholtz

Luckily, our girls have embraced foster care. They like new people.

Kathryn Stockett

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Marian Salzman

There is a straight (heterosexual) man who embraced a mention of femininity. He responded to those marketing messages but ultimately had a reaction that's pushed him back to traditional masculinity.

Chris Cichocki

We set the 20-win mark a week or so ago, and we can still make it if we play well down the stretch. The team has embraced the idea.

Jodi Olson

She was just very supportive, and I thank her for that. I know a lot of people think it would have been bitter. It wasn't. She embraced me, and we cried, and she was very nice.

Gwyn Howat

Maybe because snowboarding used to be a minority sport, it embraced all kinds.

Quentin Tarantino

The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool,

Don Piatt

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Benjamin Disraeli

We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests.

Gerald R. Ford

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Elliott Abrams

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Khaleda Zia

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

Gholamhossein Elham

The (real) enemies are those occupiers who have set themselves up in Iraq, particularly Britain.

Barack Obama

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Teresa Calcutta

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Francisco Goya

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

David Korten

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Camille Paglia

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

Casey Neistat

Free time is the enemy of progress

Tom Curley

The perfect was the enemy of the good,

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

John Walters

We're going to have to focus on the particular, unique circumstances we're faced with girls, which is different today than it's ever been before, which has obstacles we've not faced before, but obstacles we can overcome if we do the right thing.

Dawn Staley

We faced elimination, so we know what it feels like. Seattle doesn't at this point, so it (the pressure) is going to be on them. They're supposed to win.

Mike Angel

We faced a team with a lot of athleticism and a lot of length. That made it more difficult.

Todd Abbott

We faced a really good pitcher our first game.

Kirk Maltby

We faced a lot of great goaltending in Nashville, so we're familiar with it,

Randy Osnes

We faced a kid last night that threw different than what we saw tonight, so we had to make some adjustments.

Frank Poirot

We faced a choice. Low and wide, or tall and narrow.

Meir Soloveichik

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.