Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

George Postolos

We stand ready to honor the bargain we struck with the sports authority, and we hope and expect that the sports authority will do the same.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Steve Lantsberger

We have never, ever used that authority, ever. We have never run out and taken someone's property ever, that's just not the way we do business here.

Al Pacino

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

Dav Whatmore

We want to start well whether we bat first or bowl first and it helps things when you start well and that's what we have not done yet.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up,

Virender Sehwag

We want to see him bat up the order. In the last few games he did not get a chance to bat.

Rudy Jaramillo

The power is there, the only question was his health. But he's definitely showing the power and the bat speed that he's shown in the past.

Jeff Rooklidge

The positive on this team is that they're never out of it because they swing the bat so well.

John Adams

The point is made we're still fighting this battle. It's not as dynamic a battle as people being hosed down ... but it's still happening.

Virender Sehwag

We are progressing well. By the time of the World Cup, we will be ready in all departments -- bowling, batting order etc.

Bill Fetters

We started slow tonight. It took our bats a while to get going, but now I'm looking down the lineup and a couple kids went 3-for-4, so it didn't turn out too bad.

Benmont Tench

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

Nancy Marchand

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

Bob Bartlett

The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in,

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Jon Alterman

People were overly optimistic. And now people are overly pessimistic.

Pat Riley

He wants to play, he wants to be out there. We're not being overly cautious, he's got a problem and we just want to treat it. We want to get it right.

Wayne Andrews

We're not overly concerned. I wouldn't have even done my own house.

Charles Sturcken

We don't give this out to the public, but we're not overly concerned.

Tomika Ferguson

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

Charles Caleb Colton

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Buddy Rich

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Charles Krauthammer

For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

Eddie Izzard

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

David Duval

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Ed Gillespie

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Carlos Beltran

I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

Charlie Parker

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.