Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Sen. Langhorst

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Vint Cerf

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Sue Brush

We have literally waited decades -- and I mean decades -- to have a hotel in St. Paul. It is a dream come true for Westin.

Patrick Reilly

Lynn is a Mount Mercy girl. Her husband, Tom, who is also here tonight, and I are Timon guys. Incidentally, Kevin and Tom grew up together in South Buffalo. They haven't seen each other in 25 years since they were at Holy Family on Tifft Street together.

Jon Corzine

let his family down and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too.

Camille Moute

Leaving my hometown and my family was very hard.

Matt Doherty

Leaving Florida was hard. At first I didn't want to leave, at first I didn't want to look at another job because we have a lot of work to do there yet...but this was an opportunity here for me professionally and for my family was that was just a great fit. It had 'Matt Doherty' written all over it.

Deborah Chernoff

Many teenagers are supplementing the family income. Connecticut has a high standard of living, and people need more money to live on.

Ben Bernanke

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Gene Nudo

Selfishly, I wanted my family to see our team play and let them know we are doing a good job out here. We put a good show on tonight.

John Boehner

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

John Kierstead

Mountain Pointe always seems to come out and fool people. We make it a family and put it together.

Robert Osborne

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Doug Smith

Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.

Christopher Smith

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Joyce Thompson

Last year we worked with three or four (volunteers) and that wasn't really enough because some had to do it in Midland.

James Jackson

Last year, we lost a lot of games by one, two, three, four points on a regular basis. This year, a lot of those losses we turned into wins.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

Cathy Hancock

One of the volunteers lived the next street over.

Annie Parisse

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

Stella McCartney

For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.

Roy Brown

On Sept. 12, he lived a day longer than my daughter. And it's just not fair.

John Foster

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Dull Knife

I have lived my life. I am ready.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Wendy Miller

She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

James Hayes

Money does motivate but only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Willie McGinest

I have a lot (left). I don't measure by years. I take it day by day.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Zach Thomas

Don't even try to type him. It's a waste of time. He'll never repeat tendencies.

Milan Baros

The way things are going here, we could repeat the 1996 result. Only this time, we should win the trophy.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.