Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Grenville

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sheryl Sandberg

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Katharine Barondeau

Missouri?s economy has consistently improved since Governor Blunt took office. The growth in new jobs over the past year is good news for Missouri families and our state economy.

John Hancock

The fact is that Congressman Blunt has a senior leadership position in the Congress of the United States, and that can only be good for Missouri.

Feist

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Tracy McMillan

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

Pink

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

Robert Kirshner

We don't know much about bursts so there is a risk this is misleading. It is a blunt tool to measure a delicate effect.

David Harsanyi

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

Mary Bailey

We also share a bold spirit and wry sense of humor.

Michael Nelson

We're going to have to wait a few more years before we can decide where it belongs. The fact that we don't know shows you how hard it is sometimes to tell how they're going to look with the passage of time. When a president makes a bold decision, it carries great opportunity but also great risk.

Steve Ballmer

Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets.

M. Thompson

With the process in Liberia heading for normality, we would foresee a very large number of people taking the bold decision of going back home.

Bible Bible

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Laura Mvula

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Jim Webb

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

George Borrow

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

James Rubin

We have no reason to think this is any way related to Deputy Secretary Talbott's visit.

Asfandyar Khan

We dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

Dennis Scheib

If a deputy was to go before a judge and say this person did this to me, a judge would sign a warrant. But because it's Paul Howard, the district attorney, nobody wants to touch it.

Haley Barbour

Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.

Mark Roe

There aren't enough deputy sheriffs. I don't want them to keep going there.

Kevin Doll

He never complained to the deputy of being injured, and he never filed a report.

Sheriff White

For most of us it made no sense. It made no sense whatsoever as to why somebody would shoot a deputy just doing a traffic stop.

Howard Johnson

We're all deputy recorders here; that's one of our titles.

Asfandyar Khan

We have dispersed the protestors who ransacked the office of the deputy superintendent of police. The situation is tense and curfew is being strictly enforced in the town.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Charles Spurgeon

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

Alan Bennett

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

Alan Arkin

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Buenaventura Durruti

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

Bryan Adams

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Caroline B. Cooney

When in doubt, shut up.

Camille Paglia

When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Brandan Wright

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

Austin O'Malley

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

Mike Seward

We tried passing over the top and that didn't work; we just got killed inside. We couldn't make up for that size.

Rachel Brown

We really have to work on our passing and shooting and get better by Friday.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Kim

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

Mike Keenan

The position Olli is in had nothing to do with it,

Mike Brey

We're in a position where we're just trying to scratch our way to New York City.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Marco Trbovich

We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's been our position for several years.

Jim Hillman

When we get runners in scoring position somebody has to step up.

Whitney Watson

We're doing everything we can to make sure that he is not put in a position to re-offend.

Danny Ferry

We're in the same position now as are a lot of other teams.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Brad Berenson

They're probably going to turn back to the Roberts model.

Jennifer Tilly

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Michael Bennett

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Dave Chappelle

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

David D. Burns

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Cesar Romero

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

Bryan Batt

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.

Catherynne M. Valente

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

Casey Stengel

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out