Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Morse Earle

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

Phaedrus

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you

William Burroughs

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

Rick Wagoner

I think it's going to be silly not to take the competitive threat seriously. If we haven't learned any lessons from Japan and Korea, we deserve the things that befall us, ... On the flip side, the growth in China continues to be so strong that our guess is that most of the capacity in China will be used to meet Chinese needs.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting

Michael Griffin

We're talking about returning to the Moon in 2018. There will be a lot more hurricanes and a lot more other natural disasters to befall the United States and the world in that time, I hope none worse than Katrina,

W. Somerset Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

Nihad Awad

I was moved by these scenes to show the injustices that befall our communities, when the government decides to crack down on the whole community in New York.

Michael Griffin

There will be a lot more hurricanes and a lot more other natural disasters to befall the United States and the world in that time, I hope none worse than Katrina,

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Dave Gahan

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

Ron Walters

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

Reese Witherspoon

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He would just sit funny. And stand funny. He was just so funny in everything he did.

Natsuo Kirino

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

Paul Roos

We respect them as an opposition and they are going to have a real crack and so we need to as well.

Alex Gonzalez

When the sheriff came, that's when you really started noticing more of a difference. Ever since they started cracking down on everything, things got better.

David Sims

like crack cocaine to the state of West Virginia right now.

E. Hicks

We're just waiting. We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball. We hope he decides to play. Once he's made the decision, he's a player we would have great interest in.

Brian Neary

Ultimately, the jury decides how much weight to give to the testimony.

L.A. Reid

Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

Steve Breen

We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Jess Glynne

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Mike Brookhart

When Grant decides to play and really go after it, he can do anything. He can score, he can rebound and he can do a lot of little things that help us win.

Lauren Bacall

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

Juan Gonzalez

Of course, he has told me so. And the only one who decides for him is me, his father.

Orrin Hatch

No, no. I think we have to proceed with the hearings, but we'll have to see. We'll have to see what the president decides to do here,

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

F. Sionil Jose

It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

Jack Klugman

There are so many stories about injustices that I would like to do, especially about the harmfulness of smoking tobacco.

Malala Yousafzai

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Kym Whitley

Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is.

Louis Bolden

Some motorists are moved to tears and others stop to chat.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Gia Coppola

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

Shawn Wayans

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Debbie Allen

There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one.

Brittany Snow

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Rob Riggle

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Tony Gilroy

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.