Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Toombs

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

Arthur Conan

Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.

Sathya Baba

Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Robert Toombs

Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.

Charles Dickens

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

Michael Morpurgo

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Bill Richardson

Senator Kerry is very relaxed. He's very much at peace. He's confident. He feels the debates have gone well. He's looking forward to the Boston Red Sox winning.

Manny Ramirez

My main focus, like I say, is getting prepared for the season to help Boston win. I'm here. I don't live in the past, I live in the present.

Jim Calhoun

My fear is being flat (for the start of league play). When we lost to Boston College last year to start the Big East, we couldn't raise ourselves to that level. Having not played that kind of competition recently, I have concerns, but we have to play these two games first.

Cy Young

My heart will always be with the Boston fans. I hope that everyone who truly loves me will still support me now that I won't be with the Red Sox,

Mark Hendrickson

Now we just need to carry it back to the road starting tonight in Boston and do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Barbara Turner

Obviously, that's something that has been in the back of our minds. There is no resentment toward Diana at all. She was an unbelievable pioneer in women's basketball. We also want to leave our legacy with a successful career. It wouldn't end any better way than us being in Boston at the Final Four and winning the national championship.

Dick Umile

We had been playing well prior to our game with Boston U. We have to get it back because of the way Michigan State is playing.

Keay Nakae

If Boston Scientific is to come back, they will have to come back north of US$75 to keep this alive. They'll have to come back at least US$2 or more higher than they were.

Doug Pappas

If Boston and Oakland start competing to draft players no one else wants, each will get half. As long as the A's keep churning out talent from the draft and the farm system, they'll be fine.

Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Mike Pence

makes a powerful case that Congress should reconsider before we create this massive new government entitlement.

Robert Hamilton

Make no mistake, John Casey feels that it is a horrible thing to have to lay people off. And hopefully our worst fears will not be realized.

Sandy Amass

Let's say I'm in Carroll County and I needed a backhoe. I could select backhoe, then click, and the database gives me a list of people in Carroll County who've volunteered their backhoes in case of an emergency.

Mo Shaoping

Many lawyers who handled criminal cases have ended up in prison.

Robert Snyder

Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.

James Diamond

Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.

Ken Dulaney

Settlement of the case remains the most likely outcome.

James Awad

Sell in May' very well may be the case this year,

Italo Calvino

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Mark Snyder

Leadership. That's No. 1. Leadership. A good quarterback has got to have a presence of command, that without saying a word he convinces everyone in the huddle and everyone on the field that he's the man in charge.

Phil Smith

Many organizations today are headed by (those) who joined as graduate recruits. This should convince people that investing in talent is definitely worthwhile.

David Craig

My job was to manage that network of people and -- if people couldn't be convinced to support us -- to take them out, as people who could stop us from selling our project.

Nikki Rocco

My little monkey's doing great. We're convinced with all the information we have that this is the big guy, and he's going to be around for a long time.

Robert Scales

One of the surest signs of our sincerity would be to withdraw a few brigades. It would convince the nations in the region that we're not there to stay, not an occupation power. Second is the notice to the Iraq government that they're going to have to start shouldering more responsibility, that our presence there is not infinite.

Robert Scales

One of the surest signs of our sincerity would be to withdraw a few brigades, ... It would convince the nations in the region that we're not there to stay, not an occupation power. Second is the notice to the Iraq government that they're going to have to start shouldering more responsibility, that our presence there is not infinite.

Tami Erickson

One minute I think, 'We're just looking for his body.' The next minute I've convinced myself well he's taken off somewhere.

Charles Payne

No one is panicking and that is the good news. There's no leadership out there and there are a lot of question marks. Investors have convinced themselves of a better second half, but it's not assured.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

John Morse

None of these items should have come as a surprise to anyone.

Benjamin Tal

So I will not be surprised to see consumption of other items going down, like people taking less vacations, spending less on furniture, or any other items that are non-essential.

Kelly Callahan

We'll have a lot more items than we've had in the past, probably 15 different vehicles and all kinds of other things, from A to Z.

Hans Blix

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.

Pat Joyner

He'd order 40 to 50 of these items at a time.

Lindy Urso

Whatever they're looking for is not in there. He doesn't have any of those items any where. I'm not at all concerned. I know none of the items they were looking for are in Carlos' possession.

Robert Baird

We've been working on this for years, ... It's not going to be fail-proof. It's going to take some time to get items in order, but the system works well in the states that have it.

David Payne

Our plan is to use the items on one test and not on subsequent administrations of test.

Matthew Brown

We sell items on eBay. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

Kevin Fisher

Mayor Coble likes to talk about the knowledge economy. Maybe what we need first is more knowledge about how to plan and manage public works projects.

Darin Strauss

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

Daisy Ridley

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Elbert Hubbard

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

Eduardo Chillida

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

William Butler Yeats

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Bob Berg

Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve.

Albert Schweitzer

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Winston Churchill

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Lincoln Steffens

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.

Andy Carter

Numbers are up. School spirit is up. Morale is up. I have one-tenth of the school in band.

Dennis Prager

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

Allen Perry

The place was vulnerable during construction, and most of the things stolen were smaller.

Nathan Fillion

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

Halldor Laxness

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Guy deBord

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

Neil Finn

What was stolen must be returned