Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Allen

Whenever you advance to the Super Bowl after a period of not having success in the playoffs, you think about that as a potential springboard for the future. I think we've got great people in the front office and great players on the team. I told them that. Let's keep it together and keep going next year.

John Worsfold

We have refined the structure because we believe Chris and Andrew have advanced in their leadership capacities over the last 12 months. Both players have been identified as potential captains.

Ken Lowe

The eye-catching, sleek LCD monitors that Sharp continues to showcase provide the perfect packaging for consumer convenience and appeal. Sigma is committed to providing leaders like Sharp with advanced features and technological expertise to stay ahead of the market.

Chris Richards

We've still got a lot to prove to a lot of people. So we just want to go out and advance as far as we can and try to win the whole thing.

Stephane Dujarric

There is clearly a sense of urgency, the clock continues to tick, the negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in the light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance and Annan is concerned the work might not be done.

Doug Henning

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Frank Moss

When I turned 50, I took a look at the bigger picture. Until then, I developed technology to build companies, but now I want to advance technology to make a difference for people.

Thomas Mallon

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy.

Stephen Cambone

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Kathryn Harrison

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

Milton Ezrati

This provides some conviction that China's economy is still growing very fast.

Charles M. Blow

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Brigitte Bardot

I have the courage of my convictions.

Ayn Rand

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Todd Akin

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Elias Atallah

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

Mark Everson

We want people to get the refunds they're entitled to. Taxpayers can't get a refund if they don't file a return.

James Hurst

The reality is, this judge has signaled his feelings already and NTP won a jury trial already. Under the normal operation of patent cases, they are entitled to an injunction unless there are extraordinary circumstances.

Kevin James

We spoke with him and none of us thought those were his ideas of Sept. 11, ... He is entitled to his views, but it would not be appropriate for him to be a chaplain for the FDNY.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

James Turner

Ms. Patrick is entitled to her own opinion.

Jacques Chirac

unjust for those who are not entitled to them.

Bobby Allison

Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the 'King' title,

Brownie McGhee

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

Aden Fine

The government's attitude, apparently, is that it's entitled to information without justification. Like everyone else in litigation, they need to justify their request for information.

Tom Peters

My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

Kim Cattrall

The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

Joshua Katcher

When it comes down to a meet like this and you put two equally talented kids out there, it comes down to which one wants it more. Obviously, our little guys wanted to move on.

Nikita Khrushchev

Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.

Herb Sendek

With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is their balanced. Stopping that trio of guards is equally challenging.

Mark Richt

We're just rolling them and evaluating them. We're rotating them as equally as we can.

Jim Calhoun

People were watching to see history being made but history wasn't. Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. But we were equally magnificent for the final 10 minutes.

Mark Richardson

We want him to live the rest of his life in happiness and we want to be a part of his life as we possibly can. We love him very much.

Agnes Martin

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Agnes Martin

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Repplier

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

Agnes Repplier

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Charlotte Bronte

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Charlotte Bronte

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Carol Roth

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Carol Leifer

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

Carol Vorderman

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Carlos Fuentes

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Carlos Castaneda

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Carlos Castaneda

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Carlos Castaneda

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Terence

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Frank Herbert

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Alex Pareene

Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents.

Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Nasser Joudeh

The pursuit is still going on and the investigations into this are being conducted.

Shannon Rempel

Our pursuit team is very strong, and can win a medal. I want to be part of that.

Bertrand Russell

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.