Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Estelle Perrault

We used to have just one little shelf devoted to local history. We have tremendous new resources now. We have gotten some CDs, some microfilm, lots of reference materials.

Azim Premji

You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

E. F. Benson

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

Louis Finkelstein

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Nick Woodman

As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Lesley Manville

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

Susan Mitchell

We've been able to devote more resources to him because of that, but he has not had a particularly privileged upbringing. I was a single parent for most of his life. It's not like he had tutors and parents who could sit around and help him.

Bill Fleckenstein

Shorting is very time intensive and it's very hard to do at home. That's not because you have to be smart, but because you have to have a lot of time devoted to it.

David Sedaris

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

Caroline Kennedy

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Lester B. Pearson

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Benjamin Haydon

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

Charles Spurgeon

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

George McGovern

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.

Charles Williams

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Sathya Baba

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Bhagavad Gita

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Simon Schama

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.