Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Kurt Student

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Daisy Donovan

Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear.

Mallory Ortberg

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

Jim Black

Lorene, like every other member of the House, has to make her own decision as to which leaders she supports. I am constantly talking with members of the House who support me and want to work together on our shared goals, and I will continue to do so.

Theresa May

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Ulysses Yannas

Many retailers have gone through the season constantly lowering prices. Sure, you create sales but at what cost?

Herbert Thompson

Software is not static -- it is constantly changing. You can't just measure the executable; you need to measure the vendor.

Jennifer Egan

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

Jeff Murray

One of the things that we see constantly with university folks is that they have grants, they get funding to do research, a research program lasts maybe two to five years and then they need to go and use that space for something else.

Drew Goddard

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

David Irving

Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.

Gregg Andrews

I wouldn't do wood alone. But take some of those wood bangles, especially in darker colors, and mix them with gold.

Madison McKinley

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

Devon Bostick

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted to try new genres and stuff - but I love comedy. I grew up on comedy, and I love having a good time and making people laugh. But it is also really nice to switch it around and make people think and feel some darker emotions.

Sarah McLachlan

The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in the moment. I'm part of this beautiful world, and it's fantastic, and I don't really know how else to describe it.

Gilbert Hernandez

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'

Nick Tosches

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

Ryan Murphy

Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.

Stacey Koerner

We know that viewing levels increase in September because the weather starts getting a little cooler, it gets darker a little earlier, viewers are already conditioned to be looking for new programming.

Jesse McCartney

It is a darker film, not only real but deep and heavy,

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Dominic James

One of the things they love to do is lull you to sleep on the weak side and go off of screens. I was always trying to stay focused on Falls and not let him get his feet set 'cause I know a lot of shooters like to be comfortable in their shots.

Laura Bush

No one who falls will be forgotten by this grateful nation,

Eric Lewis

Now we're on another United flight, we might make that, I don't know. If not, we're just going to stay in Sioux Falls forever.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Thomas Fuller

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Oprah Winfrey

If Oprah falls into the hands of Scientology, who can tell what influence she might have on the population? The prospect is terrifying.

Aviv Kochavi

From now on, ... responsibility for what happens in Gaza falls on the Palestinian Authority.

Thomas Fuller

If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.

Charles Koppelman

Of all working screenwriters, I'm a foul shooter, ... I would take any screenwriter on in foul shots.

MaChelle Joseph

Obviously that was a huge loss for us. That's been a problem all year for us, Terry getting in foul trouble.

Craig Mortensen

Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth.

Robert Bristow

If we had hit those two foul shots, we could have put pressure on them with their point guard out. But it wasn't meant to be, I guess.

Steve Williamson

She stepped up huge. That was a huge step for us to play the way she did. She was all over the place, especially when (point guard) Erin McFadden had foul trouble, because Erin is always the player that makes us go.

Bobby Bates

She can't get tired, she can't get in foul trouble because she means too much to us out there. If she gets tired in practice, I don't take her out because she's not going to come out in the game. I tell her getting tired is not an option, she can get that out of her head.

Jen Milne

She hasn't been in foul trouble all season. It was so uncharacteristic that it kind of left us at a loss for a little bit.

Harry DeFrank

She's a good shooter, a good foul shooter, too. She has a nice touch, and she can hit the boards. We worked with her on her inside game this year, and when she started doing the right things in practice then I started playing her more.

Mike Conner

We probably messed up. That was totally our fault. We thought he only had two and we told everyone to foul to get them to the bonus.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

French Proverbs

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Mike Mastroianni

Making the playoffs last year is a huge part of our success this season. We played very well the second half of the season and managed to get in as the fourth-place team. I think that was really the beginning.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Karen Coyle

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.

Paul Biancardi

Second half turnovers really did us in. I think that was the real difference.

David Wood

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

Aldous Huxley

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Jessica Guild

I saw Hyde Park play and they are a very talented team. They play well together. We will have to play tough defense.

Curtis Deloatch

I say he's like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of person,

Tracy Nelson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is our (modus operandi). That's the way we've operated all year.

Culinary Institute

and then, we anticipate, many students will go on to Hyde Park.

Cliff Stearns

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Tim Smith

Low prices are king these days. But there are things that differentiate us.

Bible Bible

So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.

William J. Wills

Mr. Burke and King are down on the lower part of the creek. I am about to return to them, when we shall all probably come up this way.

Yubaraj Ghimire

Morally and constitutionally, the king is getting weaker.

John Ruiz

Now we'll see if Don King is my promoter or not.

Chris Farley

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

Charles Spurgeon

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

Charles Spurgeon

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Charles Perrault

The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Kenko Yoshida

Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.

Charles Olson

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

Dennis Prager

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done...

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Deepak Chopra

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Alan Cohen

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.