Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tino Reyes

When we were getting pretty close to signing him, he called us from one of his maneuvers. I asked him, 'Where are you guys?' He said, 'Up north.' I said, 'Where up north?' He said, 'The Arctic Circle.' That was different. He e-mailed us a picture from there. He had his parka off.

Lois Capps

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Alex Sosnowski

We've been in a six-week pattern of warm temperatures, which is a normal span. Now, we're entering a new one and it's coming from the Arctic and Alaska.

Kevin Patterson

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.

Ann Bancroft

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

Dave Gahan

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Charles Bass

I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has drilling in the Arctic there,

Peter Harris

We are pleased with initial customer reactions to our merchandise assortment changes and store service improvements. While still early, we are making visible progress with our targeted initiatives.

Dan Roberts

We've already noticed some changes in the water.

Derek McLuckey

We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military support business. These changes have forced us to make this necessary decision to ensure our competitiveness.

Juergen Boos

We are looking forward to presenting in Frankfurt the great changes that have taken place in India over the last 20 years.

Bill Belichick

There are changes every year. It's hard to tell how all of those will pan out. But there's a lot of work to do.

Frank Robinson

We started making subtle changes during the course of that (1988) season and got prepared for '89,

John Ashcroft

Where there are responsible changes to be made, we will make them, ... Where there are mistakes to acknowledge, we will not shy away from doing so. Those who step forward to voice their legitimate concerns will be welcomed, and often their ideas reviewed and embraced.

Nicolas Roeg

I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.

Brian Morrison

We're not going to put asterisks on any of our records. There have been so many rule changes, and so many changes in the style of play, and so many other things to consider over the years that we're not going to go there.

Jill Soloway

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Peggy Jones

We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.

Robert Reich

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

E. P. Thompson

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

Sen. Langhorst

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

Bernie Sanders

In 1996, Republicans used reconciliation to pass major legislation that ended six decades of welfare policy.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Michael Rubin

To have a result like this after two decades is extraordinary.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Studd

Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.

Charles Studd

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Charles Spurgeon

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.