Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bass

Regardless of where you work or live, the changes affect you and your community. This is about knowing what's in the air we breathe and water we drink.

Bill Cheney

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Jeff Morris

Refineries lost a lot of money. In fact they lost money for most of the 1990s. People chose not to spend on refineries. So what's affecting us now is that we're behind the investment curve and it will take us five to 10 years to catch up.

Jack Smith

Record market demand in North America and Europe was accompanied by unrelenting competitive pressures, while economic conditions continued to affect markets in the Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions, ... We're particularly pleased that GM Europe improved its profitability during the period, and that both GM Latin America/Africa/Middle East and GM Asia Pacific were profitable, a significant improvement over the first quarter last year.

Nazir Ahmed

Relief has been exchanged for Kashmiri villagers affected by the quake on both sides of the border,

Jo Bonner

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

John Stanton

President Bush needs to stop playing politics with public health. We need a stronger standard dealing with fine particle soot pollution that affects the health of millions of Americans.

Wade Henderson

President Bush has dug in his heels by refusing to release relevant documents from Roberts' time as a top political appointee and dragged his feet on releasing thousands of other records. This is no time to hide the ball. Given that the next chief justice will affect the lives of all Americans, the Bush administration has a clear obligation to the public to provide the Senate with everything it needs to fully review Roberts' record.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has instructed the Cabinet to conduct dialogues not only with the oil firms but with all affected sectors, including workers, small and medium enterprises, manufacturers and transport groups among others, that are affected by this crisis.

Carla Peterson

Rebecca wears her heart on her face. She has been working on that skill for awhile. She has competed with it before. Everything came together for her with that.

Deon Thompson

Reggie really sparked us off the bench. He came in with his head focused on helping us win this game.

George H. W. Bush

President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'

H. Hart

Our players left everything on the field. When they came off the field, they were spent. I was watching them come through the tunnel going to the locker room. I just really hurt for them because the effort was just terrific. It was like two heavyweight fighters through the overtimes refusing to go down.

Ken Stringfellow

Our relationship, musically and friendship-wise, came to a halt for a couple of years, ... Slowly those doors opened again, and we had an opportunity to do some shows in Spain and took the chance to experiment over the course of a year or so. I spent some time repairing my friendship with Jon, and then we were probably open to anything at that point.

Eve

Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had issues with my record label at the time, which was Interscope. We couldn't agree on a record, so that took some time. I had to leave them and find a new label.

Joe Kuhn

Parker kept us in the game prior to halftime. He came out and hit a couple of big 3s for us during the first half. We might have been out of it early were it not for Dustin.

Barry Trotz

Parker came over the glass, and your first reaction is one of disbelief. Witt turns around, and his first reaction is to swing back. I don't like that trade-off. ... Parker is a marginal player for San Jose, and Witt is really starting to do some good things for us.

Doug Scheidt

Park did a great job. They came out really ready to play and I thought coach (Josh Wolf) did a really good job of having them just enough fired up, but just enough under control and calm. I thought they exhibited that in the game, and we didn't.

Mark Newton

Stephen quite understandably wants to be playing first-team cricket. If he wants to talk to other people, that is OK.

Michael Hussey

Sri Lanka is probably playing the better cricket at this point than South Africa.

Alec Stewart

Our cricket is too gentle - all of it.

John Read

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

Bill Bryson

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Dav Whatmore

It is not good is it, international cricket was held up because of other reasons, it is not good I have not seen that before in cricket in my three years (here).

Paul Wilson

I think SACA fell in love with the idea of having a cricket icon as their coach,

Zaheer Khan

I thought I will use the time to work on those things. I think if it has worked well for me in domestic cricket, it should work in international cricket as well.

Ian Botham

He crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

John Bercow

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Russ Feingold

The president is not telling us the time frame ... what's happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation,

Erik Larson

Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.

Sonny Vaccaro

Patrick's enthusiasm is contagious. He is what you want kids to feel like when they are picked for this kind of event. And the kid can play at the very highest level.

Eddie O'Sullivan

Paul is full of fire and enthusiasm and the perfect man to get the team going.

Winston Churchill

Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Joel Quenneville

Overall, I liked our preseason, ... I thought we did a lot of good things. We have a lot of momentum and enthusiasm going into opening night.

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Larry Brown

I was just looking for something to give us enthusiasm and effort, ... I would have been horrified if they didn't fight back. But I was proud of the effort.

Graham Spanier

It is a very, very positive development for the whole Penn State family. There's so much enthusiasm right now in the university because of the turnaround in the team's performance.

Mike Pratt

Last season just kind of melded into this year. He never really stopped wrestling. He has such an enthusiasm for the sport, and it showed all of (his teammates) that this is what you can do when you work as hard as he does.

William Cobbett

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Nomaindia Mfeketo

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

C. S. Lewis

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

C. S. Lewis

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

Gary Capaldi

I have never had an undefeated team. We are 16-0, but honestly, it does not seem like it. Our motto is to stay hungry and stay humble and these kids have done that.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Jim Stewart

He's a very humble person. When it comes to personal milestones, that's not what he's in it for. He's in it for the kids.

Anthony Fauci

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Ron Edmonds

Pittman is tough. She's an outstanding player. I'll vote for her as an Indiana All-Star.

Garry Marshall

I think on the first day we get there everyone will have a peak at the Indian training session to see who's there.

Clark Kellogg

I think Indiana has those things in place but not necessarily so much more than a lot of other places.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

James Navolio

Kentuckians in 2004 paid $236-million in taxes in Indiana and Illinois. I find that offensive.

Brad Huse

I talked with him last week. But I had no idea the Indiana thing was going down.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

Tasnim Aslam

If it is part of the significant reduction in Indian presence in Indian occupied Kashmir, we will welcome it.

Daryl Kimball

If the Indians mean what they say (about not testing), they should have no quibble with this provision.

Richard Rossi

Paths kept leading me back to Aimee McPherson,

Eric Zastoupil

Our motto was, 'Let's make history,' or at least that was the unofficial motto. We kept saying, let's do something profound. We did. Well be remembered. We'll be back here in 25 years being remembered for this. We won the state title. We are the state champions.

Karen VanHyfte

People kept telling us that everything is going to Mississippi and Louisiana and they feel forgotten.

Carl Schurz

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

Rebecca Reynolds

Robert and I kind of kept up with each other.

Richard Breitman

Most Secret, to Be Kept Under Lock and Key, Never to Be Removed From the Office.

Donnie Jones

We never really thought a lot about that, to tell you the truth. We just kept focused, kept working, kept getting ready.

Tyson Nash

I was just going through the motions but I didn't feel anything (wrong), so I just kept on going.

Kim Clijsters

It is a nice start for me, ... I had to make sure I kept the pressure on and stayed aggressive.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Colum McCann

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.

Allan Houston

I always wanted to be in those moments when you could have an opportunity to win the game,

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Dave Ramsey

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Abdu'l Baha

We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.

Billy Graham

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

Edna O'Brien

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Guy Kawasaki

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Ignatius of Loyola

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

George Bernard Shaw

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

George Herbert

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Granth Sahib

Your servant begs to serve those who are enjoined to Your service.

Azzedine Alaia

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Bert McCracken

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Greg Taylor

I don't get up and think today is going to be 'the' day they find something. I get up every day and think that 'someday' they will find something.

Keith Faulkner

He said I look better today than I did the day we married,