Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

Jolanda Schreurs

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Steve Chapman

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Baltasar Gracian

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Scott Dover

Throughout the conversation, he (Angle) threatened to come out of the house with a firearm, despite pleas by the negotiator for him to come out unarmed.

Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Mark Dooley

Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.

Shannon LaRocque

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

Tim Ehrgott

We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.

Richard Lee

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

Bob Kelly

We are going to shape the industry discussion on this.

James Wolfensohn

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

Scott Magruder

We're back to the status quo. After all the discussion we've had about this issue, there's no reason to make any changes.

Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Peter Bart

When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.

Ariel Sharon

We had a very constructive and frank discussion of strategic issues in the interests of the United States and Israel,

John Moores

We really haven't had any discussion on what we want to see out there.

Thomas Bangalter

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Deepak Chopra

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

George Karl

In coaching, you don't ever really have that joyful fun, but there's no question that it's enjoyable.

William Channing

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see

James Broughton

We are all participants in the marvelous.

Common Prayer

A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful

J. Tillman

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Leo Buscaglia

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

Martha Beck

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Donte Whitner

We stopped him from getting outside the pocket, and we were making him uncomfortable. Once he spiked the ball, I knew we'd got to him.

Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Chris Schwartz

When we were down early, I wasn't worried about it because I knew we were trying. It was just a matter of our shots going in. Then, when they started going in, (the Rough Riders) couldn't stop us.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Rafael Benitez

When the others see how much he runs they will know they have competition.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Richard Sherman

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

Franz Wright

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Brendan Myers

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

George Dzundza

I'm here to serve. I was trained as an actor to see the writer as the ultimate creator... and that primarily what actors do is interpret.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.