Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

Rick Warren

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

Maxime Talbot

Let's make it 4-2. With that team, they score and you're like, 'We're not even worried.' We know we have the team to come back. We know we have the players to score goals and stop goals. There was no doubt in my mind that this game belonged to us.

Jeff Buckley

Lots of time I feel like I don't belong to this place.

Joe Pesci

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

Andy Partridge

So it was a bit tricky, 'cause most of the people in London belonged to this London clique and we didn't. So we didn't go to parties or hang out.

Tom Graham

May, June and July are the heart of the season. We're being strangled out of business on an ocean that belongs to everybody.

Susan Collins

My inclination is to say that FEMA does belong in the Department of Homeland Security.

Margaret Thatcher

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Alan Dunham

Low this morning was 10, but it felt a lot colder than that. Wind chills were a little below zero.

William Barnes

Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride, Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .

Tony McCoy

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

Siti Supari

So far the situation is still under control, the number of deaths due to the AI virus is still below those in Vietnam and Thailand ,

Brian Avery

Much of the valley has been at or below freezing for the last three days.

Jorge Reyes

My legs feel like they've gotten stronger, ... but the machines feel like they're below my level. They're too easy.

Lyle Gramley

My concern is not with a double-dip recession. It's with the likelihood we are gong to be in an extended period of growth below potential, and that would mean rising unemployment.

Chad Knaus

Maybe there were some people below minimum inflation tonight. If they were, and they had a tire issue, it cures itself. You're only going to go out there a couple of times and have a problem. They do what they do to make sure we have a safe and competitive race and that the drivers are able to walk away.

Bruce Evers

Numbers were below consensus because they had a big impact from the hurricanes and the closure of Texas City. These were events outside their control.

Felix Magath

Let's not get too carried away with this loss. The outcome of the title race is still in our hands and we won't let it slip away.

Thomas Doll

Let's not get carried away about this loss, we played well in stretches, we just didn't score when we should have.

Gary Fifield

Last year, she carried us on her back all the way through the tournament. She's that kind of player. She'll take the ball.

Mike Anderson

Momentum. A lot of momentum that I think carried over from game to game.

Justin Cage

My freshman year, we could really depend on three players that kind of carried us. We could screen or do whatever we were asked. Now, we have to try to lead and put some points on the board. It's changed a lot since our freshman year.

Joe Reints

One of our players really stepped up and made some plays. Meghan Fuqua saddled up and carried us with about 10 minutes left.

Malcolm Forbes

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Cherie Blair

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

Lindy Ruff

Maybe Jochen needed to be carried off the ice, and then that's a suspension. That's sad, but maybe that's what it is.

Malorie Blackman

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

Pete Cohen

Make exercise a reward, rather than a punishment. Think about how you feel at the end of a run and use that to motivate yourself.

Thomas Cummings

Make exercise a regular part of your life, something that you don't discontinue because of weather.

John Leddy

Make sure you exercise more than once a week. Make sure you're active, even when you're not playing basketball.

Mark Knowles

Medications in this case, this one, which does seem to be one of the better ones, so far, still will need exercise and a good diet.

Erin Olson

One was for them and one was for a caregiver or parent who could work with the student on the project. It's to get them learning that walking is exercise and get them up and going.

Ludwig von Mises

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

Dick Van Dyke

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Maryann Courson

We're not being real strict on putting the signs 5 feet from the property line and we're taking pictures of the violations to show the candidates.

Tommy Otterbine

Mentally, I feel fine, but my feet ...

Alice Johnson

My legs and feet got so cold, I thought I'd never get to sleep last night.

Deborah Bull

My feet are pretty normal, but they are probably much stronger than most people's feet, and some of the tendons are exceptionally strong.

Brian Dawkins

One of our stations went 11 feet under. The other went 4 feet under.

Jason Baker

My daughter's window is right there, 25 feet away. Unbelievable. We didn't hear anything, and she didn't wake up.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got six feet of water in it.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Martin Jol

Maybe it's better to keep his feet on the ground, rather than praising him all the time, but he always plays a big part.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Alexandra Paul

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let's get the power back to the people, ... not have the politicians go into a back room and slap each other on the back and smoke a stogie and come up with an agreement, smiling.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

John Humphreys

Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.

Thomas Fuller

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Charles Spurgeon

Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.

Diane Lane

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Dennis Prager

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Edward Gibbon

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Charles Baudelaire

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Elizabeth I

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Jeffrey Herman

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Andrew Marvell

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Dennis Eckersley

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Ben Harper

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Aberjhani

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Chris Botti

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Arthur Rimbaud

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

Bob Marley

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.

Bob Marley

Dry your tears, have no fears.

Aimee Bender

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

Bill Richardson

Opposes compromise immigration bill- it tears apart families.

Mike Meador

Thirty years is a long time to do anything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Theophilus London

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Marcia Angell

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Ridley Scott

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Stephen Colbert

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Abdu'l Baha

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

Eliza Haywood

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Jane Austen

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edmund Burke

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

Anthony Kennedy

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

Confucius

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.