Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Connelly

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Tim Collins

This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives.

Elizabeth Janeway

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Evan Hunter

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Haley Jowle

I didn't want to get my hopes up. He might have said that I wasn't his daughter.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Neil Peart

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Richard Menicke

I had intended to race three in the varsity race.

Courtney Pratt

If other people see it differently, they'll see it the way they want to see it, but that's not what it's intended to do.

Edgar Ramirez

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

Chip Conley

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

Bayard Taylor

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

Bob Ehrlich

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Neil Strother

I would think they'd want to get something tangible for that,

Mike Riley

He has a lot of intangibles but also a lot of tangible qualities,

Abraham Lincoln

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Hulk Hogan

I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

Jeremy Renner

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

Herbert Marcuse

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.