Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

The possibility was open for him to be here during the game. It all depended on something he had to do.

Jean Bruyere

There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'.

Richard Fuller

If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? What would I do?

Gordon Brown

Past economic transformations depended as much on brawn as well as on brains.

Patti Smith

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

Walter Brisken

Most earlier estimates of neutron-star speeds depended on educated guesses about their distances. With this one, we have a precise, direct measurement of the distance, so we can measure the speed directly.

Robert Wise

His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ... He knew exactly what worked for him on screen and knew what he could get away with.

Mark Few

Plus we can score in different ways, which is good, because last year we depended way too much on Blake.

Heywood Broun

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Charles Dickens

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Charles Dickens

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Charles Dickens

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

Charles Simmons

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Tempestt Bledsoe

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Jack Campbell

There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use.

Michael Burgess

Nursing homes should be a last resort, and that's what a lot of this is moving toward.

Michael Chertoff

making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued.

Tom Morris

Getting people in homes is real important towards improving the quality of life in the parish.

John Ortberg

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.

David Hong

The positive impact of an FTA is tremendous, ... Prospects for the Philippine Economy.

Richard Flood

We are seeing an expanded use of impact fees.

Kathryn Wylde

We've already got reports that sales were down this last weekend over last year. I'm sure there's been an impact on tourism as well.

Jim Tracy

We're talking about a catcher. Squatting, up and down out of the crouch, runners going, boom, the impact of landing. ... It doesn't make any sense to push it.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

James Cahill

There is no one who has had as much of an impact on my life.

We're going to make a major impact at this university. This hasn't been done before not because the students can't collaborate, but because they haven't had the opportunity to do it.

Mark Carmon

We're going to have to see what kind of impact the rain has had.

Kathy Stephens

We're just now realizing the impact of what 'long-term' means. This isn't going to be over next week.

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

There is no question it would have taken some of their luster away had we lost the base.

We're smelling blood, too. They lost to Michigan. We're all the same right now.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

We're a young team that lost three big players, so we have a ways to go. Our midfield play was missing, and that's something we have to correct. We have a tough schedule at the start of the season, so it's not going to get any easier.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

We are at the brink. Time is short.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

What is past is prologue.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.