Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hass

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Walpole

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.

Ted Roof

We're not deep enough, but we're deeper than we were last year. We've just got to keep addressing depth in recruiting and the development of the players that we have.

John Douglas

Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.

Gordon Brown

Let us move the IMF forward from its old role for an old world of sheltered national economies -- of addressing balance of payments problems -- to a new role in a world of global capital flows.

Bob Bone

Let's have a meeting where I can address everybody's concerns. If at the end of that meeting they still think it's unsafe to go and the majority of people don't want to do it - fine.

David Silva

Let us turn these notions of ordinances into programs for services that will actually address the problem that every American city has.

Hu Jintao

Let me address this question in a very brief way,

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down. But we all need to take a breath and fashion solutions to address the real problem, which is how much information kids are putting online and who are they communicating with online.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Malorie Blackman

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Cherie Blair

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Andy Stern

Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting him. Wesley Clark has a life-long pattern of support for national Republicans whose policies have been disastrous for public employees, and that is a track record that raises huge doubts about what he would do if he ever became President.

Paul Dowling

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Rep. Detert

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Shannon Hawrylo

Last year, we made a breakthrough because we became the closest-knit group since I have been on the team. That really helped, being together. We came together a little late though. Near the end, we had some really good races, but had we done better, we would have been in the nationals. That was not cool, but at least we are taking a step forward.

Albert Schweitzer

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Charles Jones

Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.

Ken Bacon

many of the tankers are flown by reservists.

Renee Shepherd

Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight.

Gabriella Goddard

Nature has a way of reminding us, that all things great and small,ebb and flow in rhythm with the heartbeat of her call.

Osamu Takashima

Money should flow into Japanese government bonds, including from foreign investors. It wouldn't be surprising for the recent rise in yen interest rates, which had been ignored by the market until now, to garner attention.

Tom Foreman

My girls were mesmerized by Baker. They just couldn't get in the flow of the game. We couldn't run our offense. We couldn't run the press because the girls weren't in the right places to press. They just got mesmerized by her, and that told the tale of the game right there.

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Robin Eames

If these protests aren't halted soon, it is inevitable that someone will be killed,

David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

Rick Yancey

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Hugh Johnson

I think the market has managed the inevitable profit-taking very well, but there's still a lot of skepticism out there,

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

Sathya Baba

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Jim Crace

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

Pete Smith

The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.

Jim Bradley

On the run itself we have 92 barricades and over 300 cones.

Dan Aykroyd

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Allen Settle

The project itself was not voted on in 1999,

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Will C. Barnes

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

John Battelle

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

Matthew Aid

The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.

Jeanne Calment

I didn't like mundane life.

Martha Reeves

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

Bernardo Alvarez

Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.

Pud Galvin

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Charles Lyell

In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature.

Charles Kuralt

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Jeff Berman

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Johnny Smith

For years, we have had problems with the water down here. But nothing has ever been done about it.

Peter Ashkenaz

From everything we've seen, those problems are in the past.

Alyce Wiedner

We've never had an argument. We've never had any problems.

Peter Beutel

One of the big problems is that it seems there's no supply to see us through the end of the year.

Jim Mora

I wouldn't say we let down our fans, but we wanted to go 9-7 and get rid of that 40-year problems we've had. We didn't get that done.

Robert Hartman

I would have some real problems with going back and recovering the money.

M. Thompson

She understands the problems we have up here. I know she doesn't have the solutions, but she's willing to look for them. I'm a supporter - 100 percent. One thousand percent.

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.