Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Smith

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

Robert Hall

Woodson hoped that the celebration would help blacks overcome their inferiority complex and instill racial pride and optimism. Black History Month also helps people from all different cultures to become a little more knowledgeable about African-American history and culture.

John Smit

We're going to Dunedin to win the Tri-nations, not to defend it. We do not want to wait another week to see what will happen in the match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. It is probably the worst thing in the world to wait and see if you are going to win the trophy. We must make sure we retain the title ourselves.

James Oliver

Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story.

J. C. Watts

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

Martin Henderson

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

George Bernard Shaw

Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.

Lenora Fulani

Frank MacKay and the state leadership of the Independence Party have now shown their true colors. They're intent upon turning the Independence Party into an all-white party, where blacks and other minorities are not just unwelcome, they are maligned and abused.

Justin Marshall

I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the All Blacks and he is one of the most dangerous wings the game has ever seen. It is a testament to the kind of man Jonah is that he is back on the rugby field. He is driven by a desire to succeed and we will have to make sure we are ready for him.

Alan Morrison

We're just trying to cut every possible expense that we can. Most people just see Ritter Park and don't think about everything else we do. It's very complex and complicated and there's got to be a solution because I can't give up.

Elliott Abrams

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Jim Yong Kim

Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Laura Wasser

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

Jack Jostes

We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in a more complex direction without taking ourselves too seriously and not having fun.

Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Niki Tsongas

Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.

Bob Lambert

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Desarae Garland

I expected a lot of parties, different cultures and seeing people sticking with others from their hometown.

John Gallagher

One very important secondary set of skills people learn is how to manage a large-scale project with a globally distributed team, usually made up of people from different cultures and different countries,

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Brian Sewell

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Sasho Cirovski

We have purposefully put together a tough spring schedule to help us prepare for next fall. We are trying to get our players used to playing in pressure situations.

Ken Hitchcock

We have players who played for the Phantoms last year who do a lot of things really well that are going to help us,

Darrell Dickey

We have played the 3-4 some in the past and are looking at using it more. We think it will help us get some of our better players on the field.

Eric Hyman

We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

Javier Vazquez

The expectations are here, they want to (repeat) again. I want to help as much as I can to do it again.

Arlen Kantarian

There are a lot of constituencies we want to help: the players, the officials and the fans. This means more help for the officials, more strategy for the players and more intrigue for the fans. We need to marry tradition with innovation.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

John Erskine

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Michael Milken

This provides something that is readable for the layperson and has been vetted by some of the top scientists. It helps you separate the misinformation.

Andrea Bocelli

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

James Galway

Singing is also important as this helps with your projection.

Scott Peters

She refused to be denied. Wilcox put a lot of pressure on us and to be able to survive that helps us be a better team.

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Lana Wood

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

Richard Butler

We did not make the progress I have hoped for.

Chuck Ramsey

What he can do is something we really need. Now that he's healthy, we're getting what we hoped to be getting all season.

Bob Bratkowski

Perry has been everything we hoped (for) when we took him in the first round.

Ali Lacey

I'm a little better (this year). Not as much as I hoped to be, but I am a little better.

Roger Turner

I had hoped to retire in two years, and that's likely not possible now. I'm sure that's true for a lot of our members.

Derek Anderson

I don't know why I'm not playing. I'm frustrated. I got in shape. I didn't go on the (two-game) trip, stayed back, worked on getting in shape. I hoped I would be playing today, but obviously I'm not. I'm going to talk to him tomorrow and see what my status is.

Lukas Haas

I'd always hoped to work with Tim Burton.

Jason Silva

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Chris Quinn

My family's always instilled that in me, just having integrity. There's been a lot of tough times throughout this year, throughout my career, but it's important to stick with it and keep battling.

Henry Ian Cusick

I'd imagine if there were more Scottish people making Scottish movies about Scotland, it would not only be educational, but it would instill a sense of pride.

Chris Eigeman

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.

Homaro Cantu

Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids.

Amy Chua

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

Aaron Cook

He has instilled this, 'This is who you are, stick with it, be stubborn with it' approach. The sinker was working great. As long as I don't try to do too much with it, it is always there.

Jonathan Scott

We're on track to be one of the better teams in the nation. We got to keep working at it. It has been instilled in us that complacency kills. We've got to make sure that we work to get better.

Amber Riley

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

Bruce Smith

We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened.

Alan Trammell

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Sylvia Harriss

We usually give the restaurants a month to submit their checks.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Kirk Hinrich

We know how big this month is for us. This just isn't the way to start it off.

Dianna Agron

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

Ron Jirsa

We are going to have to get tougher if we are going to go on through this month and make anything happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Kazeronnie Mak

Nothing is difficult, if one can overcome with it !

Chad Bankston

We're young right now and we're trying to overcome some of that. We just weren't able to punch it in down in the red zone.

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Michael Cole

Yeah, they're good. It will be another challenge. But if we play well, we can overcome it.

Manmohan Singh

If we work together, we can overcome these problems,

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Shane Jabaar

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Ken Sparks

And then professionally, at 6-foot, he wasn't supposed to be big enough to play in the NFL. But he's always worked to overcome his problems.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

Robert Davies

He does not see it as a racial thing,

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Warren Moon

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it was the first time.