Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moshe Sharett

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

Dan Woods

Local government needs to respect people's rights. There's a backlash when people see government regulations infringing on those rights.

Stan Herman

When there's a disaster, there must be a backlash in fashion. But the figures aren't in yet, so we don't know.

Vivek Wadhwa

Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to.

Alan Baum

Toyota obviously has staked a lot of its prestige on this technology, so if there is a developing negative backlash in the U.S., they are going to work very hard to reverse that.

Josh Clark

The Grateful Dead gave birth to punk rock in more ways than we realize. That whole concept of 'Do It Yourself,' giving the finger to The Man, that backlash to the '60s.

Richard Yamarone

Up until now, we haven't seen any backlash to record prices at the pump from consumers, but now the story is changing,

Seiji Adachi

It's mainly a backlash from the powerful momentum of the last half-year.

Peter Ratcliffe

Any wear that does eventually occur in the screw or nut is compensated by the nut which adjusts automatically to maintain a zero backlash over a very long service life.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles Simmons

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Alan Bennett

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

Chris Brown

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

Diane von Furstenberg

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

David Sedaris

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

Dave Barry

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Dave Barry

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

Kevin Campbell

The only reason we would go forward with this concept is for the historical preservation of the property.

Paul Turner

The Powergen Cup is a great new concept for us and one everyone at the region is looking forward to,

Madison Jobe

Where the Mike's concept started was in smaller towns and has continued to develop in smaller towns, and we have done well with that.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Nick Woodman

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Niger Innis

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Ollanta Humala

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

David Walton

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Joe Mihalich

When you run that baseline when it's a dead ball, you give a team life.

Ann Rice

When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.

Ryan MacMurchy

When we were winning, our practices were (about) grinding each other, getting on each other, yelling and hollering. It's been a little dead out there lately, not as competitive.

John Washington

We wrapped them and all, but due to the heat, well, I don't know. We just left a lot of dead people, I figure 40 to 50.

Terry Greene

What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.

Denis Leary

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Chris Carpenter

When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing happened when I went up to hit.

Jan Brett

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Jonathan Orr

We're in this together. I'm sure outside sources will point fingers (at the defense). But last year it was a different story, remember? We're a team and that's what this all comes down to.

Joe Vitt

Whenever you let a good football team like the Colts get on a run, it's tough to put your finger in the dike.

john bejo

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

Chris Kramer

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,

Jarvis Johnson

Should it have been done properly? Yes. But I'm not here to point fingers who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Rafael Benitez

We knew they needed rest to recover but the problem that gave us was they were all missing the Newcastle game.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Erik Kimrey

We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Billy Sheehan

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

Charles Taylor

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

Charles de Lint

Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

Charles Dickens

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Dudley Warner

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Charles Spurgeon

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Alan Watts

If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

Alan Chambers

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.

Dianne Wiest

I've been grateful for what comes along.

David Kim

If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.

David Morse

I will be always grateful to NBC.

Carl Sagan

Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.