Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Charles Sturt

I did not feel myself equal either to the task or the responsibility of venturing any remarks on the Colony of New South Wales itself.

Jim Daley

Gilles Colon led CIS in returns prior to coming here so it's not a new thing to him but it is a new thing to him in our league.

Gore Vidal

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Saskya Pandita

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

Donald Trump

Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion.

Evel Knievel

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Charles Sturt

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Alice Morse Earle

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Mark Swartzberg

looks excessive for the right to own a loss-making, share-losing business.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Dickens

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Jeff Greene

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Timothy Noah

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

Democritus

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Jose Luis

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

Gareth Jones

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Vince Vaughn

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Tony Blair

Libya has declared its intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and to limit the range of Libyan missiles to no greater than 300 kilometers, ... that this process will be transparent and verifiable.

Joan Anderson

Most women I know have, in the service of some greater good, let their very lives wilt on the vine. We've dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else's, and we're no longer able to even imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning or purpose for ourselves.

Lynsey Addario

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Paul Giamatti

I can't imagine a greater honor than being acknowledged by my peers.

Samuel Coleridge

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Mark Twain

I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

George Robertson

I have heard the news and greatly welcome it. I hope it will lead to greater stability for the people of Iraq.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Ron Orlosky

She lost her kidneys her first day in the hospital. She never really got them back. She wasn't in a situation where she could have received a donation.

Rick Joyce

They're like the kidneys of surface water management. They provide filtration for contaminants like fertilizers, pesticides and metals.

Wanda Sykes

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

Wanda Sykes

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Steven Nissen

We've been misled many times by observational studies like this,

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Diane Sawyer

Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Diane Kruger

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

Diane Kruger

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

Janet Jackson

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.