Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

Toshihiko Matsuno

The extent of the U.S. economic damage caused by Katrina is so unclear, and that could weigh on stocks there.

Paul Offit

The problem with the original vaccine is when given to kids over 7, it caused some pretty severe reactions,

Ted Cruz

What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.

Caroline Allen

We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.

Tom Coughlin

This was not an easy decision. I regret the embarrassment this matter has caused my family and friends and I thank them for their support, love and friendship.

Eugene Fama

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

Edward P. Jones

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Charles de Secondat

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Kofi Annan

We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play,

Ludivine Sagnier

It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV.

Tom Fitzgerald

We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust.

Karen Hughes

We're in a war on terror. We are still at war. And to succeed in this war, we must effectively explain our policies and fundamental values to people around the world,

Nayvadius Cash

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Lawrence M. Krauss

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.

Kevin McDonald

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Mahmoud Othman

There is no progress. We are sticking to our stance and they explained their stance.

Brene Brown

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Carol Shields

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Carlos Castaneda

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Savannah Cowley

We have no fear we won't have enough snow to stay open through Memorial Day Weekend, and there's always the possibility we'll open for the Fourth of July. Right now the possibilities are endless.

Agnes de Mille

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Larraine Segil

There is a lot of fear when an acquisition takes place. Most people are fiddling around with their resumes on their computers.

LaMarcus Aldridge

We have to follow the game plan. The pressure starts to pick up when it gets late, and we tend to just stand around, so we have to have more movement and a better mind-set.

Stephen Merchant

We were trying to follow up The Office,

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.

Taylor Lautner

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

Tracy Morgan

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

Gary Wolf

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

Eric Cantona

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea.

Kaki King

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

Lynsey Addario

If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

Kim Keelor

The reduction in the speed lessens the potential for serious rear-end crashes.

Birch Bayh

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

Madeline Albright

We have to see what we can do to lessen the pain,

Lance Reynolds

It really lessens your worries about taxing them.

Rob Manfred

If you compress payroll, lessen payroll disparity, have a little restraint at the top, give more at the bottom,

Chad Brown

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

Burke Stinson

The lessen is that sometimes the parts are worth more than the whole.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

John M. Smith

There ain't going to be trouble today because they got police everywhere. It's going to be all right because no one wants to go to jail.

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Chester Gould

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Gareth Peirce

Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role?

Barbara Ehrenreich

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Dale Parsons

We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.

Dave Reed

We want somebody who is really going to do it.

Michael Franti

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Bhagavad Gita

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

O. Winston

We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney. Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Justin Timberlake

Make out in a club? I didn't do that when I was with Britney, ... Why would I do it with somebody I just met?

Simon Schama

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?