Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rainy

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Koko Taylor

I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin' cotton, I wouldn't of cared who come by and said, 'I'll take you to Chicago.'

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Steven Brill

We're not dealing with kidnappers here. When you see the way they continued to raise him and take care of him, you're dealing with parents that love their kid and would do anything they could to keep him.

George H. W. Bush

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,

Joan Lingard

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

Brenda Valdes

Life is ... you work, you support yourself, take care of yourself, but you also have to take care of your community.

Jason Varitek

Like I always say, we handle things in here. In no way, shape or form are we going to play a media game with our teammates. I think that people look to pick on things on Manny because he's Manny Ramirez. We'll take care of things and we take care of things in here.

Lou Lamoriello

Let's be careful how far we go with that.

Drew Altman

Seniors still are having a hard time. Seniors still aren't really prepared, and they're going to need a lot of help to make the choices they need to make under the law.

Maajid Nawaz

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

Donna Moir

My hat's off to Mercy. They were on fire in the first half. We didn't get tired in the fourth quarter. We made some poor choices that ended up costing us.

Willie Randolph

Obviously, if you play games like that with the fans, they can come down harder on you. We all have choices to make and reactions to different things.

Charles Petzold

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Edward Abbey

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Earl Nightingale

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

Alexandra Paul

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Robert Osborne

When a movie opened - if you lived in New York, you would see it at Radio City Music Hall where it would play a couple of weeks, and then you moved on to the next movie. Now you can see it the rest of your life - it's going to be on Netflix and DVD.

Kurt Browning

Four world titles is a good swath at the top of the podium. The Olympics didn't work out for a couple of reasons, but it feels good when people say 'four world titles.'

Lee Bennett

Maguire answered. That was big. We just didn't make a couple of plays down the stretch. That's the way it goes.

Rick Taylor

Lynn had three crucial hits that led to runs and made a couple of defensive plays that ended Pleasant Hill rallies.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Charley Juris

Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team of 'no stars.' It's really been a major team effort here.

Jon Tremayne

Many of these (outages) are one or two customers, and others are a couple hundred customers.

Frank Robinson

Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.

Blake Ress

Many of the people in the legislature send their kids to private schools and I think they would defend them, defend the current system. I don't know that we've done enough research where we can defend this before the legislature or in court. If we're going to go this way we better have some facts to back our decision.

Herbert Hainer

Many of our current efforts will now focus on turning around the Reebok brand.

Cindy Clark

Several teachers also go to training all year long. Even in the summer, they go to week-long training sponsored by different groups. We want them to keep up with the current research.

Atul Lele

Momentum is on the mining companies' side, at least for the short term, as current commodities prices feed through to earnings.

Mark Levine

Mr. President, please reject the Left's current efforts to influence your selection. Your political enemies wish you ill.

Xiao Qiang

Much more relevant is current affairs, social and political news. You don't necessarily have to touch taboo areas.

John Robertson

Much more inflation. Because this government is always going to be printing its way out of its current difficulty.

Robert Gruber

Most wine importers hedge about 12 months; in other words, to the end of the current price list.

Norihito Kanai

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Eduardo Saverin

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Eddie Vedder

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Elizabeth Dole

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Jin Renqing

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Susan B. Anthony

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

W. C. Fields

Go back to reform school, you little nose-picker!

Alexander Hamilton

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Abraham Verghese

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Gary Sharpe

We're going to the South side on Tuesday. Our seniors have never won down there.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Dustin Villepigue

I was wondering what he was doing there. I didn't have the ball. Then he swung at me, but I didn't swing back because seniors aren't supposed to retaliate.

Matt Loveland

We wanted to (get to state) for the seniors and we wanted to do it for (Graham).

Martin Brown

We have several seniors from a lot of different sports,

Meggie Ford

We thought some of our other seniors were going to get on through, but it was a heartbreaker.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,