Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Charles Barkley

We've won some heat races and had some decent finishes but we haven't been able to get the luck to win a feature,

Ed Bond

There are a lot of decent folks who have been given a lot of misinformation.

Abby Wambach

I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

Scott Mellanby

We know we need some help. One has to lose. You'd like to think you have decent odds.

Tom Hougaard

...we are holding the flat line, but we are vulnerable to the downside. A lot of people are getting worried about the market...we are long overdue for a decent correction.

John Brady

We want to see the figures, refinery runs and all the others. There will be a decent draw in products, especially gasoline.

Andrew Flintoff

We are pleased with the total and the fashion we got it. I think we've had a decent day.

Robert Long

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

David Crosby

We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing.

Elizabeth Emken

In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.

John Doolittle

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.

Khloe Kardashian

Most families aren't all in the public eye as we are. It works as a blessing. It works in our favor.

Julia Glass

If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

Trent Duffy

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

James Lee

We're grieving for our employees, our customers, their families and their loved ones.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

Adrian Ross

Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting. Payment now should be speedy to prevent further hardship.

Kelly Herndon

We're just taking it step by step right now. I've got to see how I feel in practices and then how I feel for the game.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Philip Morris

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

Steve Long

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

Mike Price

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Mike Goforth

It's one of the two or three worst spring practices (for injuries) I can remember.

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Gary Barnett

This team is getting better. I'm pretty pleased. . . . We've got 10-11 practices left, but I'm satisfied with where we are.

Doug Harris

We weren't in our regular routine, and I could tell in our practices we were somewhere else.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Steve Fitzgerald

We're trying to work out how to survive the 26th.

Martin Brodeur

We're trying to survive and get in the playoffs, so these wins are huge.

Megan Fox

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Andy Lopez

If they don't get healthy, we've got to find a way to survive without those guys.

Roy Williams

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Mike Brey

My theme is survival, and that's even before we are where we are. You're trying to survive and trying to claw your way to New York City.

Randy Smith

I thought she was dead. I didn't think she'd survive that.

Gary Graham

I thought, 'He's done.' If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

Paul Bailey

I thought, 'How long can they survive in there?'

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.