Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Sampson

Let's put it this way France '98 was half a decade ago - it's ancient history as far as I'm concerned. I've moved on.

Niccolo Machiavelli

May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to break the laws and those customs and usages that are ancient and under which men have lived for a long time

Richard Preston

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Doug Heiken

Now the Forest Service and BLM must stop avoiding their legal responsibilities and get to work implementing the Forest Plan, so at least minimal protections are in place for ancient forests, salmon, wildlife and clean drinking water.

Lyndon Johnson

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Thomas Day

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

John Ortberg

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing. There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

John Challenger

We are definitely going to see downsizing, ... There just isn't going to be a need for people to the degree that was required in the boon years.

Roy McFarland

Wayne is having a good season and his wealth of experience is a really boon for our younger players - both on and off the pitch.

John Cassavetes

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

Don Phillips

Joe's decision ... is a great boon for our business. Frankly, it made little sense to me that he left in the first place.

Jozef Straus

Had we not done what we did, and told customers when there was a boon that I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to fire 5,000 people, some little guy would have got the business.

Michael Panzner

Sure, lower rates might offer another brief respite in an environment that has seen increasing dollops of profit-warnings and negative economic news recently, but when that is all said and done, a poor operating environment is unlikely to be a boon for corporate profits -- or U.S. shares prices -- in the months ahead, ... The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle.

Ron Ranson

This was a tremendous boon to the students to have these professional actors working with them, ... It was a wonderful mix.

Mark Knox

There's no doubt that everyone has various agendas. But whatever their agenda, Microsoft's support has been a huge boon to HD-DVD.

Proverb Proverbs

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Sathya Baba

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Barry Bonds

Luckily, I'm still playing. Thank God I'm still out there.

Leo Veness

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Stephen Baldwin

Luis Palau is the best-kept secret God ever had.

Corbin Bernsen

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Sathya Baba

Love God with all your heart,With all your soul

George Whitefield

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Elbert Hubbard

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Abraham Lincoln

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Aaron Brown

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

Fred Greenstein

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Rob James-Collier

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Logan Marshall-Green

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Zach Braff

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Bill Hader

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Nicole Holofcener

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Chris Snyder

We've done a lot of research on it, and we don't know which way we'll go if offered one or the other, or both. We'll have to wait and see who wants us.

O. J. Simpson

You know he didn't have a caddie, so I offered to caddie.

Don MacAdam

We'd end up in the office talking hockey. He offered (to coach), and I'm not one to turn down help.

Ed Pastor

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Angelina Jolie

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

Monica Wright

I feel privileged to be a part of that.

Catherynne M. Valente

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Bart Gordon

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Billy Bragg

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Barney Frank

It is a terrible allocation of scarce resources, ... The time has come to de-emphasize the manned space program.

Joanna Lumley

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Bhagavad Gita

Scarcely any one of the striving, or even the perfected persons, truly understands Me.

Beth Moore

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Al Gore

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

David Platt

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

David Platt

We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.

Ted Stevens

This is no way to treat a state, ... We're a sovereign state.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

R. C. Sproul

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are