Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Marty Schottenheimer

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Edward Flynn

Police chiefs like myself are going to say, 'We like our guy. Don't move him. But my interests may not be identical to the FBI as an organization. It has got to force those painful choices on its staff.

George Speight

On the morning of Thursday, before the chiefs sit down, all of the hostages will be released.

H. Hunt

More than 100,000 Soldiers have trained on our combat convoy simulators, mostly National Guard. About 1,000 pilots, crew chiefs and Soldiers have trained on the door-gunner simulator at Fort Hood and Fort Rucker.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Mark Schlereth

With the way the Chiefs have played offense, he'd be a guy you'd have to consider, that some team would have to consider. There's going to be a lot of opportunity out there.

Dale Jarrett

We have two crew chiefs who are willing to work with that engineering staff. Before, we haven't exactly had that combination working. Now we feel like because everyone who has come here has been talked to about the same ideas, everyone is on the same page. We're going to be a much better organization than we have in quite a few years.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Ratu Bokini

If the chiefs are united-the nation would follow suit.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Joe Thomas

We were trying to get a feel where they will do the job in the county meet. I wanted to find out what we have. I just want them to go and do their best.

Mike Wright

We've won three games in a row with Cocke County up Monday and we've got a little momentum, which is what we're looking for heading into the district run.

Lisa Kleypas

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Dan Penick

From what I'm told going hard in practice is what determines how much playing time you get. I'll just get up there and work hard and hopefully I'll get in there.

David A. R. White

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Lee Smolin

How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.

Colleen Atwood

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

Jim Sweeney

The present system says the town determines the fair market value, which is a very expensive to assess, ... But the IOU's can respond with a much higher figure if they don't like what the town has offered, and that's the price we have to take.

Attorney Garnati

We have scraped together the $9,500 to keep the doors open until March 31. We need a miracle to save our domestic violence program, and in turn, save women and children.

Therese Fowler

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

Harvinder Kalirai

We did expect a sharp deterioration of the trade balance. The real story on the trade numbers is that the import surge reflects very solid domestic demand.

Maajid Nawaz

The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

Adi Godrej

We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.

Wasim Bari

We have included Iqbal because of his prolific form in domestic matches.

Kate Winslet

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

Bill Cheney

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

With the year-end and new-year retail sales showing good results, the market mirrors optimism about the outlook of domestic consumption.

Carl Andre

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Lee Kreindler

What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile.

Amy Hall

When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.

Alan King

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Katy McKim

We have reservations a year in advance. For those purposes we rent three vans to handle our traffic, 15-passenger - whatever we can get.

Scott Verplank

When I walked onto the green, I was happy to see that it was so close, ... I'm thinking, 'I can handle a shot like that.'

Tom Benson

In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them.

Ken Bell

We're just trying to get a handle on these private displays.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Brandon Sanderson

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

Anne McLellan

were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures.

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

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.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Greg Nickels

The people of Seattle know I'm a mayor willing to make tough decisions.

Stephen Kinzer

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Robert Maxwell

Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

Paul Farris

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Martin O'Malley

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Alex Padilla

I find it weird that he lost. He has been mayor for a while.

Fred Sainz

We can't piecemeal policy, so the mayor thought it was the right thing to do.

Nancy Pelosi

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

Alan Lakein

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Keyes

In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

Charles de Gaulle

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Charles de Gaulle

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Charles Dickens

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Charles Stanley

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

David Morrell

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

John M. Smith

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Chester Gould

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Barbara Ehrenreich

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Elizabeth Thornton

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Jeb Bush

We've got a response team that is second to none, ... We will get through this storm and respond quickly.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

John McCarthy

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Christophe Barbier

He has profited from the riots and the protests.

Alain Badiou

We have the riots we deserve.

Tony Martinez

It was crazy. It was like the L.A. riots all over again.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alvin Copeland

We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over.

Jessica Smith

We have so many fatalities in our state from impaired drivers. This is another tool to get them off our roadways.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Ted Nugent

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Clifford Geertz

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

Phiroz Vandrevala

The structure for the subsidiary would be in place by June.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Tarvaris Jackson

I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Mario Harpel

This was a super win for Nick. He has been working hard. It was a well-deserved win.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman—who is only a mere superhero.

Bai Ling

I'm not superstitious.

Baha'u'llah

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

Ashley Jensen

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Bill Maher

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Brenda Ueland

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.