Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francesca Cantalini

Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros (dollars). The puppies are often sedated, so that they don't move around, and when they grow up who knows what happens to them.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Emmanuel Jal

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Om Puri

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

Mr Davis

Whatever the cost it still beggars belief that the government wants to make people pay this plastic poll tax,

Source Unknown

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

Jeff LaBar

We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook them in with Naked Beggars songs. But we do a few Cinderella songs.

R. Robinson

Pavement slippery, people sneezing,Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;Titled gluttons dainties carving,Genius in a garret starving.

Muhammad Yunus

Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.

Maya Angelou

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

Robert Edwards

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Atharva Veda

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

Marc Williams

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Christopher Howson

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

O. Singh

Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.

Robin Dezarn

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Samuel Freeman Miller

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.

William Roth

Life is not getting any cheaper for millions of American families, ... It's only fair to let them keep more of their hard-earned money.

Nazmeera Moola

Macro reforms have become entrenched and made it cheaper and easier to run a business, and are no longer questioned.

Jim Moore

Left to their own devices, people will choose the mode that's cheapest to them not just in out-of-pocket costs but in time costs.

Michael Bastian

Men's wear is a game of millimeters. You can find really cheap stuff out there, but you'll never wear it.

Ben Ross

My initial reaction was that they were putting us in the cheap seats, so they could give the good seats to the people who make big donations.

Bob Brusca

New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.

Timothy Noah

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Jan C. Ting

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Tom Parsons

Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons, those are really tight days for the cheap stuff, ... You may find the cheaper fares Tuesday through Thursday. But if you're not willing to do that, then you'll pay a premium -- maybe double the cheapest airfare on some of these routes.

Ban Ki-moon

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Ben Shapiro

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

Clarence Thomas

the demeaning treatment Anita Hill received before the all-male committee.

Peter Hoekstra

It's very difficult to do an honest appraisal of a lot of people's personal and professional performance without demeaning them, and to do it fairly and in hindsight.

Marc Chandler

Demeaning is in the eye of the beholder.

Robert Davies

Some people want to make it a race thing. I don't. That's demeaning to me.

Brian Cross

It's been going on here forever. You hope guys ... look at what happened just last year and see where they are. There were guys last year who were good enough to have an opportunity, but didn't get to walk in their freshman year and play. It's something we talk about, but not in a demeaning way.

Leslie Brown

I don't like holding this sign. It's demeaning and I hate it with all the teas in China.

Rick Perlstein

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.

Charles Kennedy

Let no-one be in any doubt - the Liberal Democrats are not about to cede our emphatic, sincere and long-standing green credentials for some spray on aerosol version.

Julian Castro

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Howard Kurtz

McCain has always been a conservative, anti-abortion, pro-military Republican who took more moderate positions on a few key issues. If he runs, he could well win the White House, shutting out the Democrats for the third straight election. And that is rallying the pundits of the left.

Ken Mehlman

Maybe he was responding to James Carville, who warned the Democrats that the public wanted reform. The Democrats seem stuck in concrete.

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Timothy Noah

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

Charles Kennedy

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect. These guys are awesome. This is a farm team.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Erica Mann Jong

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

Jason Breiholz

Making it as far as he did was incredible, and getting there and winning one match is incredible with the top 16 in the state.

Mike Levine

Licensees have gone as far as they can go,

Don Mattingly

Looks like he's just starting to tune it up a little bit. Hideki, he's just so solid as far as his work. He never gets out of his program. His work is the same if he's going good or if he's going bad.

Victor Murphy

Last year was really phenomenal as far as rainfall goes. This year, total opposite. It's feast or famine.

Charlie Brown

Last year was a record year for us as far as we can tell.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.