Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Saunders

We're going to go work on our short game when we get back, and our approaches to the green. I think that's where we're losing strokes.

Elizabeth Bradley

We found exceptional, innovative approaches to ensuring rapid treatment of patients, ... We used management techniques and flow charts to define achievable times for each step.

Walter Isaacson

With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice -- it has helped lay the groundwork for new approaches to national and world issues,

Khalil Greene

The pitches were different, the approaches were different. The pitch today was in a different place than last night. As a hitter, you have to understand that every at-bat is different. If not, you can go up there trying to do too much.

Karen Carpenter

There are many approaches, thousands of approaches out there can help you stop smoking. There's the gum, there's the patch. But what's important is what's going to work for you. And I think you and your physician, having a conversation about that, can provide the best results,

John Stout

Luke has matured. His outlook has changed. He approaches the sport from a different point of view now. He was so aggressive. He'd come out like a maniac. Now he's smarter, more calculated.

James E. Faust

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

Thomas Stevens

When the market is good, you have a lot of creative approaches to real estate. But, I have been in the business for 34 years, and you see a lot of peaks and valleys.

Denis Healey

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

John Bollinger

We're in a long-term sideways type of market, a consolidation market, typified by alternating cyclical bull and bear markets lasting a year or two each,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Suriyasai Katasila

We always bear in mind the king's concern of peace and stability. But the rally to Government House, which will be peaceful, will continue.

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Jeff Lemire

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Steve Squyres

There are cliffs the rover could fall over and die if we aren't careful. We are gong to proceed carefully and methodically.

Lee Byung-hun

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

Steve Struzyk

When you stress the weight room, you have to be careful about your message.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been. The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been, ... The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Kevin Kinel

We've still got to be careful to get things done at sectional. Once he's at the state meet, he'll be at home. That says a lot for a freshman, but that's sort of the way he is. He loves to race and loves a challenge.

Nic Pizzolatto

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Michael Tanner

Whether it will help remains to be seen. We have to be careful not to generalize before we have enough information.

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

John Kyriakopoulos

There are clearly upside risks around the consensus expectations for non-farm payrolls. As such, we would not be short the U.S. dollar over the next 24 hours.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Li Zhaoxing

The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way,

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Charles Buxton

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Kerry Greenwood

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Eric Brown

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Kathe Kollwitz

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

John Abizaid

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

Richard Grimes

Shocked, I don't know how this man could do something like this when we were paying him faithfully

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

Monica Crowley

There are plenty of Muslims who live faithfully in the United States.

Chuck Grassley

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

E. O. Wilson

I?m about to retire, been teaching for 34 years and have faithfully made contributions to the required retirement fund and I?m hoping when I finish my years of teaching that there will be money in the retirement fund for me.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akhil Sharma

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Greg Stuart

We actually think the (Internet) penetration in households is higher.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Judy McDermott

More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.

Mamie Gummer

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Darrell Issa

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Thomas Sutton

He loved his job. Even after he retired, he kept spreadsheets with all his household bills.

Elaine Pagels

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

Beverly Jones

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

Aaron Sorkin

The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

Pamela Moore

We feel that we need to listen to our constituents and make an informed decision.

Benon Sevan

Similarly, I informed the U.S. government, effectively the policeman for sanctions violations in the Gulf, of maritime smuggling on a massive scale that was occurring, to no avail.

Marty Hurney

We don't know anything about it because we really have not been informed throughout the legal process.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

No president is informed if some plane lands,

Bret Bielema

He informed me he might be interested in pursuing another option with LSU. I said that's all I needed to know because I want people that need to be here.

Don Luskin

We want you to be an informed consumer.

Jacci Jahnke

When we table a subject, we're not using it as a tool to make it go away. It's a tool we use to make more informed decisions.

Martin Brodeur

We're not kids. At least we're informed of the possibilities.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Bill Coleman

We are a very safe community. His primary responsibility is keeping us safe.

Ted Carpenter

What we're seeing is the reflection of two developments -- first of all, the U.S. military being more and more into a force-protection mode, keeping its military personnel as unexposed as possible to fighting.

Bob McNair

We're going to look at any and all options. Whether it's keeping the pick or trading or whatever.

Susie Gardner

We?re back to preparing for each opponent and keeping a routine going. Right now, we?re really out of our motivational gimmicks.

Ashwin Sanghi

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

Jeremih

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

Daniel Ellsberg

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Barry Erwin

She is talking about keeping those cuts. It's a smaller state financially and population-wise for some time.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Charles Spurgeon

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Alan Bennett

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Al Sharpton

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Pacino

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Spurgeon

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan Watts

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

Alan Watts

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Charles Spurgeon

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Lorraine Toussaint

I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.

Bobby Bowden

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

Edward McKendree Bounds

He who would pray, must obey.

Brigham Young

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

Bobby Labonte

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.

Brigham Young

If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!

Brennan Manning

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

Dave Ramsey

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Andrew Neff

It corroborates our view of a renewed sense of vigor and competitive spirit at HP.

Marco Caceres

All the sudden, you have these new visions for space exploration, and there's renewed excitement.

Damon Lindelof

Those who survived are separated for the first third of the season.

Bhagavad Gita

Those who see Me in everything and see everything in Me, are not separated from Me and I am not separated from them.

Roy Moore

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

Jennifer Hill

That's where I was separated from my brother,

Richard King

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Jared Leto

We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Stephen Graham Jones

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it. I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Jim Hunter

We'd do whatever we could, and I don't think we'd be boneheaded about it, ... I'm not intimating that they're boneheaded, because I don't know the circumstances.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Louis C. K.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Kathleen Blanco

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

John Pomfret

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Philip Brooks

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

Cheryl Conway

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

Joan Didion

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.