Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Peggy Brown

We want them to learn simple things that are relaxing, like conscious breathing and guided imagery, which are antidotes to anxiety.

Cathy Freeman

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Caitlin Hyduke

We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a deep breath and stuck with it. We never let it get to us and just kept playing tough defense.

Mark Capasso

We stuck to the basics. They have really good chemistry on the court and were able to put together a great run and get a little breathing room.

L. Frank Baum

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Edith Wharton

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Dean Cain

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

David Brock

Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

Michael Weatherly

The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Niki de St. Phalle

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Brian Roper

We were too rushed in the first half and in the third we calmed down. We executed better.

Tracy Sutton

Magazine did a great job. For a number four seed, that was a pretty good team. I think truthfully our kids come out a little tight and trying a little too hard instead of playing and letting it happen. Once we calmed down and relaxed we started playing a little bit.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.

Emily Moorkamp

We were a little emotional and rattled in the first half. We weren't hitting shots. But, once we calmed down and got settled, we were fine. Also, we picked up our defensive pressure a bit.

Laurie Cook

But that has calmed down at this point.

Ray Holloway

Next week, when things have calmed down again, we'll see prices fall due to falling wholesale prices,

Peter Fleming

He's calmed down a little bit, certainly. You know, you can't be so self-absorbed with six kids -- that's a plain fact.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Justin Glover

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Lanny Breuer

The plaintiff's claims are without merit, as shown by the fact that the entrepreneur-defendants are supported by the expert reports of three former FCC Commissioners, including a former FCC chairman.

Sir Campbell

He could have tackled the unfair tax system. He could have made the environment a priority. He could have faced up to the pensions crisis. He could have addressed the problem of personal debt. He has declined to do any of these. This is a legacy from which it will be difficult for him to escape.

Scott Chasin

We would not make the statement today that spam has completely declined. What we can say, and what we believe, is that spam has declined as far as reaching the consumer's in-box. I think it's a big difference from saying overall spam volumes are down.

Bob Klein

We do license products very selectively. In the past, we've declined to license such products. We would rather be out there riding the products down the road.

Mark Murphy

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to US$10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to US$73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Mark Murphy

Novell's Linux revenue increased 22 percent year over year to $10.4 million. Red Hat's revenue grew 44 percent year over year to $73 million in its most recent quarter. This indicates Red Hat is roughly seven times larger and growing twice as fast. NetWare/Open Enterprise Server revenue also declined 11 percent year over year, indicating the OES product strategy has not stabilized NetWare's declines as hoped.

Dario Pedrajo

Those ratings have come from fundamental improvements in monetary and fiscal policy. Deficit spending has declined considerably in emerging-market countries.

Lloyd Johnston

What is significant is that the use of these substances has declined substantially since the recent peak levels reached in the mid-1990s.

Charles McMillion

The total number of hours worked in the private sector by production labor declined even though there were more of those jobs. That tells me that we're seeing a shift not just away from manufacturing jobs but toward jobs with shorter hours.

John Reade

We expect that funds held 17-18 million ounces of gross long positions as of Tuesday. If the net long position is more than this then we will become even more bearish; only a release that shows that the net long positions declined from the 15 million ounces reported last week would make us positive about the short-term outlook for gold.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Kyle Visser

We're excited. We have hope now. We were holding on to very little hope. That's a big thing for us. We see we can play as well as we can.

Brooke Bingaman

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

Kurt Eichenwald

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

Brad Henry

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

John Madden

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

Chris Cornell

She's known how to walk for about three months but she would only take steps if she was holding onto my finger, ... Now she'll just take off and go anywhere.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Jeffrey Joerres

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Mohammad Afzal

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

George Meyer

We are a 24-hour department. If you see something amiss, report it immediately. Timing is very important,

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

Charlize Theron

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Alexander Kozulin

Tomorrow we will show the world our might!

Mariano Rivera

Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.

Brigham Young

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

Benjamin Graham

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

Barbara Mandrell

I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.

Barbara Mandrell

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

Charles Spurgeon

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

David Icke

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Denis Waitley

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Deborah Harkness

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

Bill O'Reilly

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

Chang-Rae Lee

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Bob Saget

I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the Full House house.' It literally was a drive-by. I photobombed the Full House house yesterday. I took like 20 pictures because I thought I didn't look good in any of these - you can't see the house! You gotta really show that that's the house!

Edgar Lee Masters

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

Barbara Tuchman

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.