Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Bell

We know what the canon is, and people can argue whether you should study F. Scott Fitzgerald or D.H. Lawrence ... I probably would put Shakespeare right in the middle - on that, George Pell and I agree.

Jon Davidson

The point is that the history of marriage is a history of constant change. I think it's hard to argue that this change is somehow fundamentally different from the others.

Herbert A. Simon

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

Alan Yamamoto

We've argued about it. ... We've gone around in circles,

Luis Suarez

When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.

Larry Ellison

We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.

Ed Pinckney

We reminisce a little bit about the run. But usually we argue over which team could go on the same type of run this year.

Heywood Sanders

What has gone on in Pittsburgh is what has gone on in lots of other cities, which are often faced with convention centers that don't perform as their proponents had hoped or promised, and so it is argued that what you need is an adjacent hotel.

Leonard Susskind

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

Charlie Daniels

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Charlie Chaplin

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Charles Sumner

The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

Charles Dudley Warner

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Charles de Lint

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Charles de Lint

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Charles de Lint

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens.

Zwelinzima Vavi

We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region.

O. Henry

We know we cannot win this long war by ourselves.

Bill Womack

Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it.

Louis Bacon

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.

Michel Onfray

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Morgan Wootten

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.

Stephen R. Covey

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise

P. J. Harvey

We know what he can do now. It's been a long two days for Jake, but it was worth it.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Al Gore

has been a friend, and it's my fervent hope that he will also be our nominee in the year 2004.

Bob Roach

I would like them to pay. Our fervent hope is that they feel pain.

Elliott Pollack

It is my fervent hope that they don't do the same thing this time. The level of single-family housing growth in Phoenix and Tucson is not sustainable.

Bradley Chicho

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Tommy Kron

Was he fervent about (recruiting Beard)? I don't know.

Pat Hanlon

Any time people who are ardent, fervent supporters of your franchise have a place to go to share in that fervor, I think it's a good thing.

Thomas Monson

Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer and its heaven-sent response. "

Gore Vidal

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

John Ricci

But if (nursing homes) don't have vaccines by the end of the month, they will probably start making more fervent pleas.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Charlton Heston

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Neil Craig

From a bigger-picture point of view, to generate a game at this stage of the year for the state and footy followers is just fantastic.

Kyle Davis

I think the seniors will be key this year and they have to step up and be leaders. Most of our young guys are followers and they are good team guys. If the first practice was any indication, this team is going to have great chemistry. And liking each other can go a long way.

Ella Wilcox

Who is the wise? Not he who from the startWith Wisdom's followers has taken part;But he who looks in Folly's tempting eyes,And turns away, perceiving her disguise.

Sheriff Stankus

When the trial first began, there were women in their late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s here. As the trial progressed, the followers are getting younger in their late teens.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Jon Ronson

Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.

Charlie Daniels

People say, "Well, we're all just going to die and go to heaven anyway, or Jesus is going to come back" or something. I don't feel like God wants us just to lay down and die just because that's going to happen. I think we should keep trying.

Charlie Chaplin

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Charles Caleb Colton

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

Charles Studd

...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

Charles Studd

I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me.

Charles Studd

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

Charles Stanley

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Charles Stanley

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

Greg Darnell

If they walked up to me today, I wouldn't know them.

Greg Beratlis

We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Forrest Pearson

We walked out practically side-by-side. I thought everything was cool.

Doug Bruno

We cried, we laughed, told stories. We walked away reflected. She was a bubbly, fun-loving personality.

Rob Blake

It's the same as any year when I've walked in here.

Tyler James

It was at my callback. He just walked in. He got it. I didn't get it,

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.