Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Sandy Johnson

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Darcy Tucker

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Source Unknown

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Tom Reilly

Many of the closeted people ... do use the Internet, because of the anonymity afforded by e-mail address. We're hoping to reach people who may not hear all the fuss.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Dick Cavett

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

Otis Smith

Whether you like him or dislike him, Kobe is a special player. He has the killer instinct in him that a lot of the talented players don't have. When he smells blood, he goes for the jugular. That's a (Michael) Jordan-like quality.

Benjamin Franklin

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Hoshyar Zebari

Make no mistake. We are here to stay, ... We are not temporary or interim leaders. After Saddam's topple, you have to live with these faces, whether you like them or you dislike them.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Dan Brown

She (Blythe Brown) dislikes the public attention, and I (see) no reason why she should be put through the stress that the glare of publicity would cause.

Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope

Walter Kirn

She started out all excited and impressed. ... (She took an immediate dislike to Bill, who struck her as a narcissistic snake.)

David Horsey

What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Shane Koyczan

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

Friedrich Muller

If an occasion arises, friends are pleasant; enjoyment is pleasant, whatever be the cause.

Donald McKay

I feel the better way is to 'begin' and then see where your imagination takes you. That's where the enjoyment of writing comes into full flower.

Judy Thompson

I find it extremely enjoyable, I'm far more patient and I think I know a lot more.

Clare Callahan

I can tell if someone auditioning has good coordination, and hearing, but I look for the enjoyment in what they are doing too.

Jerome Forneris

I have bowled my entire life and gained great pleasure and enjoyment from the sport. This is a tremendous honor.

Paolo Maldini

He enjoys the game and that is the only thing that you can know about him at the moment, ... If he really wants to be a footballer than he will know how to handle all the pressures there will be for him.

Guus Hiddink

I think the reaction is very nice because it's a reaction of enjoyment, it's not violent...I think there were one or two injuries where people dislocated their shoulders waving flags.

Zubin Mehta

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

Charlie Daniels

We will miss Ransom's presence and are indebted to him for his many years of service,

Paul Cellucci

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

Jo Handelsman

We actually don't know much about soil microbes and the lives they live.

Karen Hall

We're for making women's lives ? everyone's lives ? better.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Robert Maguire

She has touched more lives personally than all 12 of the disciples.

Dan Ware

We're here to provide as much protection as possible. We're here to save lives first, and then do as much as we can to protect property.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Hugh Jackman

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.