Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stafford

Let's not forget those folks that are in such desperate need,

Norman Kember

One night, our captors took us downstairs, sat us in front of the TV, and showed us the life of Jesus on DVD in Arabic. But these are the people who shot Tom Fox in the head. People are very complex. Also, I think they wanted to keep us happy, so that we wouldn't try any desperate escape.

Phil Jackson

Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.

Samir Mihi

One thing the riots have shown is that these kids are desperate for attention. We're trying to tell them that you matter most when you vote, that's when politicians have to start listening to you.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

Lucy Sharratt

Monsanto is desperate to recapture royalties from its GM seeds, and terminator is the perfect solution because it would be able to biologically ensure that farmers have to return to the market every year.

Willie Mitchell

When you're a desperate team, you do whatever it takes.

Bruce Gersh

Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere.

John Fitzgerald

I was so proud of them in Switzerland. I would've been disappointed if he wasn't disappointed because that means he's desperate to play.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Terry Holt

Mr. Armey and Mr. Lott are longtime friends and allies, and they will always work hard together on the issues facing Congress,

Adam Sampson

More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.

Richie Adubato

Now we're facing a four-game road trip. We have to steal one very shortly.

Dave Duncan

From here on out he's going to start seeing more situations like that and he's going to be facing big lefthanders. And he's going to have to be ready to start getting them out.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Jim Sinclair

I work for lots of fire protection districts. With some exceptions, everyone is facing the same problem.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

David Somerville

I'll be on the convoys taking the supplies to the infantry,

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, know Him as the True Guru, who unites all with the Lord.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?