Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

O. Henry

We know we cannot win this long war by ourselves.

Bill Womack

Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

Alan Paton

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Chris Cleave

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Cesare Pavese

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...

Jones Very

The poets of the present day who would raise the epic song cry out, like Archimedes of old, "give us a place to stand on and we will move the world." This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty.

Marilyn Marinelli

We are a voice crying in the wilderness.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

Anton Chekhov

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Francis Bacon

What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?

Jamie Carragher

Whenever we play Chelsea, we always seem to get penalties that aren't given, but we don't cry too much about what happened.

Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Alan Parsons

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

Barbra Streisand

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

The Edge

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

Justine Larbalestier

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Bob Thaves

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

Aimee Bender

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

Alan Greenspan

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

Gitte Lindgaard

We know from the judgment and decision-making literature that once we have formed an opinion, that opinion is likely to stick and we're going to look selectively for evidence supporting our hypothesis.

Patricia Baker

Until evidence of an improvement in Eckerd stores and overall trends, we remain on the sidelines with respect to these shares.

Jack McConnell

The possibilities could range from a full evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, to just arguments on the evidence that exists or something in between." ()

Edward Gorey

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Ben Bernanke

I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble,

Joe Chavez

We've got evidence that it was an intentionally set fire.

Bernard Goldberg

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

Ahmad Chalabi

We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Rep. Gannon

For too long, it's been a hidden issue in Florida. It's a testament to our state that we're going to try to stop this.

Don Hewitt

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

Simonides Simonides

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Tim Carter

There are so many things that can go wrong and so many hidden costs.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.

William Cowper

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Mo Ibrahim

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Steve Greene

We're not scary and we don't have a hidden agenda,

Charles Dickens

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse

Navjot Singh Sidhu

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Henry Ward Beecher

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Thomas S. Monson

The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

Virginia Woolf

For nothing was simply one thing.

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Annabelle Selldorf

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

David Williams

We want a more orderly process and a process that really protects taxpayers,

David Lynch

I like things to be orderly.

Hedi Reynolds

There has been no panic selling and very orderly trading.

Walter Bradley

An orderly universe is one described by mathematics,

David Tom

During the whole process, they were all very cooperative. It's been a very orderly process.

Barton Gellman

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Steve Greene

We've got a pretty robust product road map.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Barry Diller

We're ready to compete. We're very serious about this. Search evolves. We have a product that I think is part of that.

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Matt Flynn

The product is out there. It's not necessarily right, and it's not necessarily wrong. It's just the idea that was generated.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Alan Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

Alan Ayckbourn

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Alain Robert

I love all people, whatever race they are.

Al McGuire

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Chris Chocola

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living.

Chip Kidd

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Edward Fitzgerald

To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.

Elie Wiesel

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Andreas Gursky

A word is worth a thousand images.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.