Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alonzo Church

Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He believed in taking long walks through the woods to discuss mathematical research.

Lorraine Toussaint

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Gary Sheffer

We have said all along that we will continue to advocate for our proposal and we are continuing to do that.

Kevin Smith

The fact it's repeatedly passed Chairman Pombo's committee would advocate for a vote, as would the fact the CNMI is the only U.S. territory without nonvoting representation.

Robert P. McCulloch

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Kathryn Lasky

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

John Deane

We have have been an advocate of world languages for a long time. And we've got to keep the place clean.

Brad Dean

We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

James Graf

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

Robert Forney

Several ships have (the outbreaks), but it's not a cruise ship problem. It's a people problem.

Lee Nelson

She plopped it into my office and said she'd been saving for a cruise but there is no way she could go after all this,

Anthony Amero

Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.

Jonny Lee Miller

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Steve Cernak

When history looks back, it'll see the cruise industry as the rebirth of this port.

Brandon Roy

We've got to stop trying to cruise so much. Right now, we're just doing SOME of the things it takes to win.

Adam Allen

We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.

Chita Rivera

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

Saudi Arabia

We know what it feels like to be hit by terrorists. The fight is an international fight.

Mark Richt

We know what it feels liked to be here and win it, and we know what it feels like to be here and lose it.

David Brooks

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.

David Mitchell

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

Josh Brown

We've all put so much time in, and it's what we deserve. It's an unbelievable feeling. It feels great.

Geoff Blum

We've all played this game and had our hearts broken. I can only imagine what it feels like at this level.

Darrin Zeer

We're in a mode where it feels like there's no free time, but there really is. To live a good life is not about going to a meditation retreat one weekend a year. It's about moment by moment, every day. You've got to train yourself, train yourself to be calm.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Bill Hamilton

We know you want to do the smart money thing, ... We hope you want to be heroes, and we'll help you do that.

Michael Young

We know we're responsible for a lot our team's offense, and that's something that we take seriously. We take a lot of pride in being productive and helping the team win.

Jason Richardson

We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.

Amanda Radovich

We know how to come back and that will help us in the end.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Lalit Modi

If others want to play they can. Why should we play in October?

Bill Cowher

I saw the play and would not condone it. Is it illegal. No? It is necessary? I don't think so. ... Do unto others as you want others to do unto you.

Robert Winn

It is a little disappointing, ... That being said, there are others in development.

Charles Edison

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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.

David Suzuki

You are what you do, not what you say.

Al Yankovic

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

Brian Tracy

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

John Washington

I think the contractor's very proactive with this. He's really ready to go. He wants to go to work.

John Hendrick

Where he's being proactive is with leadership. We're better offensively with him.

Drew Bledsoe

It seems like we're a little reactive right now. We need to be more proactive in our approach.

Charlie Daniels

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Charles Tupper

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Charles de Gaulle

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles Dickens

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

Charles Caleb Colton

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Joe Crawford

I feel like I'm getting better every game, more comfortable, just being aggressive, taking my opportunities.

Andrea Mitchell

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

Angelo Crowell

Just taking things more serious, taking a different approach. I was kind of transformed, so it's kind of cool.

Ann Robinson

I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years.

Justin Smiley

I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.

Charlie Chaplin

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Charlie Chaplin

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

Charlie Chaplin

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Charles Wang

I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction.

Charles Tillman

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

Charles Tillman

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Taze Russell

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

Charles W. Pickering

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles de Gaulle

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.

Scott Simmons

She's incredible. She can do whatever she wants when she has the ball.

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.