Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Bond

Parochialism, poor information architectures, and bureaucratic confusion should not be included amongst the reasons to squirrel away intelligence that we need by cognizant analysts throughout the community.

Francis Bacon

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

Shaukat Sultan

Some foreigners were amongst those killed, but we have no information on their origin,

John Vane

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

Paul Roos

I think there's also a clear understanding amongst the group now that you don't last too long within the boys' bloods system if you're not prepared to sacrifice for your team, if you're not prepared to do all the things that the boys require.

John Tortorella

I think there were things within our team tonight amongst ourselves where it was boiling points and frustration with one another. I think it's very important right now, when it gets to that level, that we've just got to stay together. There are some tough times in a long season. This is the time we need to stay together and just get through it.

Dave Holland

I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.

Matt Brady

James has made strides. There's a growing trust amongst his teammates that James is gonna come through if we get him going.

Lakhdar Brahimi

I think they want support from the U.N.. They think the U.N. has a role to play in helping them understand these problems and also in working out compromises and concerns amongst themselves.

Rebecca Davis

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Charles Canady

Partially born children are being eviscerated, you can see it right here.

Harry Holzer

Paths to legalization for those who are here and for those who remain here makes sense. Legalizing these immigrants will reduce some of the competition they provide to native born workers.

Tony Blair

Particularly with the shock of knowing that those that have perpetrated this were actually born and brought up in this country, I think it is particularly important we recognize the worldwide dimension of this,

Gregory Benford

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

George Vecsey

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Paris Hilton

Some girls were just born with glitter in their veins.

Greg Mason

Reggie posted up hard and gave us a great post presence.

Koy Banal

Our loss last Saturday was a wake-up call. I gave them a lesson on mental toughness and it paid off.

LeeAnn Palo

Our legs kind of gave out on us a bit.

David Piehler

Sterling gave us more size up front. Our rebounding improved with him back in the lineup. He'll get better as he spends more time on the court.

George Braun

Some of the threes were unbelievable. But we gave them the opportunity to get it.

Tim Shankle

Some kids in school were saying they were better than us, so he made us all try out. He gave everyone a chance.

Kyle McLaren

Our speed tonight was pretty good throughout. We have to improve in some areas. ... We gave up one goal, and I don't like giving up any goals, so we have to improve on that.

Joe Hernandez

Our girls didn't do a very good job on offense. And their big girls gave us fits.

Nel Parado

Our first win gave us the confidence. We always come well-prepared, but we're lucky to have the leadership of our veterans like Alex.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Tami McLaughlin

Our name has been around for quite a while now.

Dirk Koetter

Other than the running back, a lot of those are just names on a paper.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name." Patch to Pepper

Becca Fitzpatrick

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

Azzedine Alaia

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

B. R. Ambedkar

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

B. B. King

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.

Bill Simmons

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

Erik Solheim

We will do whatever we can from the Norwegian side to try and find a solution ... to the present withering situation at the peninsula, and also to the long time settlement of the Tamil aspirations,

Somawansa Amerasinghe

Only three parties know what is in it - the President, the LTTE and the Norwegian embassy.

Siri Hustvedt

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Adrian Beltre

He can make the lineup on any team. Especially on our team. If he is able to come back and play with us in Puerto Rico, our team is going to be a lot better.

Gina Rodriguez

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

Gina Rodriguez

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

David Witt

We've got (firefighters) here from Florida, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, pretty much all over the United States.

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ron Gardenhire

That was (coach Paul) Molitor yelling at the umpire, not me. I just raised and said, 'What?' and he told me to get out of here.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Robert Milmore

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

Sharon Cody

I was raised with a sense of not throwing things away.

Sally Field

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Greg Simmons

I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Do Won Chang

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

Hermann Maier

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Sam Dumont

We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Rachel Tucker

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.