Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

Terry Adams

Last year was the first one where I really struggled. I'm determined to make it back.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Let's display our determination that was lacking in Buenos Aires.

George Henderson

My grandparents instilled in me that hard work and determination are keys to your success. I think the students need to learn that in the school system.

Chris Evert

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Gene Sarazen

From where we were last year to now, this is a huge win for our program. This is a big stepping stone for us and it just shows the determination of these girls. When they have things going, they can really play this game.

John Gifford

Senior retail management is increasingly hard to find right now, ... A lot of the top executives have been around for a long time and they're still working on the premise that sales are driven by value for price and assortment.

Mel Martinez

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Daniel Butler

Newness drives sales. Today there is more newness in the market than in the last five years. There is a faster turn in trends driven by the industry.

Ray Neidl

Fuel prices are up, and to a large extent we're being driven by fuel prices.

Cynthia Ozick

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Randy Olson

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

Laura Innes

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Kate Klise

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

Don Shelby

One of the problems with modern journalism is that it is not driven by news so much as it is by story elements.

Rodel Natividad

Life. You either live with or live without.

George Lucas

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Linda Todd

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Bill Bray

Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

Daniel Brodsky

Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.

Stan Domin

Maureen is either really hot or really cold. When she's on she is really on though.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.

Newt Gingrich

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Noah Hawley

Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her whole career for a network partner who truly understands and encourages their vision. For me, the search is over.

Steven Hall

Let's try to find incentives for the development to encourage reclamation and also for the development to encourage minimum surface disturbance. Let's try to structure a plan that encourages industry to be innovative.

Craig Martin

Many trail users around town are doing a little trail maintenance on the trails in their neighborhood. This workshop is to encourage volunteers and to make sure they do the job right.

Johnnie Burton

MMS must have a leasing plan in place if Virginia seeks to end the moratorium and encourage offshore oil and gas development.

Peter Frost

One might expect that this female surplus would encourage more men to take second wives, but having two families simultaneously is difficult.

Jill Carroll

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

Jon Kyl

One way that we might encourage others to come forth with potential savings is to demonstrate that we ourselves are willing to forgo this COLA, ... It's a gesture that members of the Senate ought to make.

C. K. Williams

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Unknown

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

John Pearson

Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him.

Luhanna Chesley

I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died. She was her happy-go-lucky self.

Brett Hall

Frankly, we haven't had any major discussions on that bill, but no one here has ever expressed any objections to it.

Shinzo Abe

... I have heard that the North Korean side also expressed views and questions of their own.

Om Puri

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Simon Van Booy

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Don Cooper

Mac needs to come into spring ready to get a lot of innings. I'm not going to say he's our long guy or our seventh-inning guy or a spot starter, but he is a reliever right now until further notice.

Bruce Springsteen

Let's take the good times as they go, and I'll meet you further on up the road...

Milan Khatri

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Jia Qinglin

Last year, President Hu Jintao and President Jacques Chirac exchanged visits successfully, which further boosted the development of bilateral ties,

John Edward

So long as he leaves open the prospect of even further rate increases, however, he won't get it.

Paul Tracy

Obviously we've had some run-ins this year and I've come out on the short end of the stick but that only motivates me further for next year,

Mark Regev

No one on the Israeli side has ever said that disengagement goes further than Gaza. Let's be very clear, this was a unilateral Israeli step.

Brian Nelson

More money should come in to the sector in anticipation of further consolidation.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Kenneth Williams

I feel gratified by that. It's been a long battle.

Mark Hilson

We are gratified that shareholders have supported our recommendation.

Jay Blanton

We've been very gratified with the conversations we've been having with policy-makers.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We're obviously very gratified by today's verdict. It was a very important case.

Patricia Wright

I honestly am gratified that the process works. I don't want to do away with our system. I want to make it work for everyone.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Jenni Allen

I was pleased with representation on the committee. There were a variety of different opinions and we've successfully incorporated every member of the third-year class.

Gorden Blain

If I'm going to be a member of Rivals, they want the message boards. If I pulled the message boards, then I would be lopped off the network.

David Hawkins

If I seek an appointment with a member of Congress, I get a staff member, if anybody.

Hut Landon

I'd like to uncover some worthy recipients and I'd like it if the member booksellers nominated programs in their communities.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Jamie Shea

NATO will always be hopeful, but we'll always be realistic.

Donald Trump

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

George Robertson

I will be taking that request back to NATO headquarters to see what we can do.

Robin Cook

Those teeth will be supplied by the NATO countries,

Boris Trajkovski

We don't need NATO to stay on as guarantor for peace,

Jaap Scheffer

That will not keep NATO from doing what it is going to do. NATO will stay the course. We are not leaving.

Javier Solana

If Milosevic does not comply, I can tell you that NATO is ready to act,

Jaap Scheffer

This is the first time NATO has done something like this on this scale.

Nicholas Burns

These two individuals are standing in the way of Serbia's progress with NATO and the United States as well as with Europe.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Dr. Paulos

No brace is perfect. No brace can prevent every injury, but they do help.

Amartya Sen

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Vanessa Mae

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

Archibald Cox

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

James Blankenship

We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.

Barton Gellman

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

Richard Cobden

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Jerry Jones

The development could be virtually anything, from a five- star resort to a vacation-club development.

Alexandra Paul

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.

S. Walker

One will be right here and the other will be other side of the ramp, diagonally.

Roger Szendy

New Fairfield is on the other side of the lake, and there would be a lot of time spent just trying to stay organized.

Tessanne Chin

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

Eleanor Porter

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

Ehud Barak

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Eric Herzik

I don't think he's going to want to let this go unanswered. You don't want to see it (the rating) slip any more, or you're on the wrong side of the equation.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Claude Mandil

On the refining side we need regulations to be predictable.

Diane Lane

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Deepak Chopra

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Dave Ramsey

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Adam Everett

She has taken as many as 12 steps before crashing.

Lisa Busch

We play as a team and someone always steps up. Tonight it was just my time, my chance, to be there for the team and do that.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Ludwig von Mises

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I do not like violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Aaron Allston

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Camille Paglia

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

Camille Paglia

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?

Athol Fugard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

Chazz Palminteri

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Bo Derek

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.