Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Glauber

We know from research we've conducted that a high percentage of servicemen and women lack basic financial knowledge. We are here to unveil an important new program that will help members of the armed services and their families manage their money, and save and invest it wisely.

Alvaro Soto

Ultimately in a democracy you cannot have both participation in elected office and participation in armed militia. They are simply incompatible.

Michael Specter

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

Jay Francis

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

Melanie Hill

We are looking in the future to expand it to other branches of the armed forces.

Li Bingbing

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Nicolas Maduro

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to re-implement a draft. There is no need for it at all, ... The disadvantages of using compulsion to bring into the armed forces the men and women needed are notable.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

Stephen Colvin

The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand,

Dan Favreau

We started connecting with some of our passes. It's tough on this field because it's smaller, but we made the passes we needed to and made the most of our chances.

Craig Hatkoff

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Amar'e Stoudemire

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

Joseph Cirincione

The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

Jim Glassman

When I hear (about a housing bubble) I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Rose Rosetree

She makes a gesture toward connecting with other people, but she doesn't go very far.

Don Cheadle

Just from him doing the things that he knew how to do, moment to moment -- it's not some mythic figure. It's just a common, everyday man. And I think that's what people are connecting to.

Jan Denise

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

Richard Flanagan

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Juvenal

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Matthew Storin

Obviously, each of them violates the sacred trust that the Globe has with its readers.

Clive Thompson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Mike Quigley

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

Gillian Zinser

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

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!

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Bob Casey

I think it's time we had a senator who wasn't pushing a narrow, intolerant ideology that says 'I'm right, you're wrong and you don't know better.

George Rockwell

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Brad Henry

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Joschka Fischer

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Dave Finkel

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Abby Wambach

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

David Forst

Until they are in the Major Leagues, they are assets.

Lisa Bonet

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bill Bavasi

We'll see if we can fine-tune it. Those are important spots, but we have no major trades (in the works).

Robert Shea

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Steve Shields

We need to have a paradigm shift. What we've been doing hasn't been working.

Bo Burnham

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

John Green

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

Karl Albrecht

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Thomas Kuhn

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.

Stephen Malkmus

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Alan Pardew

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Jane Austen

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Edith Wharton

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Susan B. Anthony

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Charles Atlas

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.