Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Gonzalez

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Stephen Harper

We have no alternative but to accept the checks; they're part of our system.

Alpha Konare

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Geoff Hoon

We want Saddam to accept the will of the international community,

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Trevor Bayliss

We've seen he's still got the goods on this tour and he'll be able to choose the timing of his departure.

Sheryl Sandberg

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

Ashwin Sanghi

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.

Evangeline Lilly

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Carol P. Christ

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.

C. S. Lewis

If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

C. S. Lewis

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

C. S. Lewis

A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.

C. S. Lewis

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

C. S. Lewis

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

C. S. Lewis

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

C. S. Lewis

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

James E. Faust

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

Harry Reid

We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change.

Christopher Hitchens

Mr. Blumenthal stated that Monica Lewinsky had been a 'stalker' and that the president was 'the victim' of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman, ... Referring to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Blumenthal used the word 'stalker' several times.

John Ellis

From number seven on I played very well. I knew just to stay in the tournament I would need to shoot three- or four-under. Fortunately, a 66 was good enough on a very demanding golf course.

Julia Stiles

I don't think it's easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then we'll get there, I'm sure. "-Julia Stiles

Mariella Frostrup

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Dmitry Medvedev

Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

Bryn Terfel

Falstaff is very demanding vocally but dramatically it is something to get my teeth into. I'm really looking forward to that.

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Camille Paglia

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

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Barry Commoner

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

Aubrey McClendon

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

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Emile Cioran

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Fred Greenstein

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

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

C. S. Lewis

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Susan B. Anthony

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Tracy Chapman

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Carl Sagan

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Alan Stern

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Turing

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Shepard

Why don't you light that candle ?

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Clarice Lispector

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Brenda Fassie

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Billy Casper

As long as you're not shouting and hollering.

Niall Horan

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Emily Hughes

A little over a week ago, I wasn't even supposed to be here. I went out there for warm-ups and they were shouting my name. That's the first time that ever happened.

Steve Jones

I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.

Robert Duvall

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

George Muller

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Hank Azaria

I have no new voices - they've all been used.

Paul Lieberstein

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

John Nash

I thought of the voices as... something a little different from aliens. I thought of them more like angels... It's really my subconscious talking, it was really that... I know that now.

Mike Judge

I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Janet Weiss

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

Richard LaGravenese

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

Rick Springfield

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans.