Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

Rick Perlstein

In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Richard P. Feynman

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Bill Vernon

Mandates do not solve, but only exacerbate the problem. Mandates will seriously impact the state's ability to compete economically with other states.

Randy Cunneyworth

Like any young player, there was a period of inconsistency. He can be average and then he can be Clarke MacArthur. Average isn't good enough, but he possesses the ability to be above average.

David Blask

Light, in terms of our experiments, stimulates breast-cancer growth activity, and obviously this is due to the ability of light to shut off melatonin production.

Mark Duda

LT hit him a ton and practically killed him. (Charlie) got up, went out for about four plays and came back and ran the ball 25 more times. His ability to cope with adversity and physical pain, he had no equal.

Becca Kohli

MacKenzie is a player with the right attitude and the natural ability to go after every ball and to be a spark on the field. We feel MacKenzie can be a very strong player for us because she has potential in several different positions on the field.

Jeanine Pirro

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

John Hennessy

Like all Americans, members of the Stanford community feel great compassion for the many who have suffered loss and a desire to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, ... We are committed to helping out in whatever way we can, and we hope these efforts will make a small contribution to the outpouring of relief to victims of this disaster.

Gordon Gee

Let there be no misunderstanding of our intention, ... Vanderbilt is committed to competing at the highest levels in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA, but we intend on competing consistent with the values of a world-class university.

I. Stone

Lowe's is committed to recognizing and supporting efforts that help our neighbors and customers. No time is this support more important than following natural disasters. Since Lowe's launched its customer donation program in 2000, thanks to the generosity and cooperation of our customers and vendor partners, we have raised nearly $16 million for American Red Cross disaster relief efforts.

Bobby Dunn

Lots of people start exercising because a spouse or other person has told them they need to lose weight. But you'll only stick with it if it's your own goal, if it's something you're committed to.

Leo Kiely

Last year, we committed to a strategic review of our Brazilian business. We made good on that commitment, and this transaction is the result.

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy is committed to ensuring that this program continues and that the commonwealth's proud history in military technology continues to grow and expand.

Sen. Bray

Sen. Rita Days and I were committed to maintaining a safe and friendly emissions program even though the effort was to decentralize it. Decentralize did not mean the program was going away; it?s a federal mandate. Our six amendments protect the public and make the often inconvenient process of emissions testing as painless as possible.

Chris White

Motorola is committed to delivering 'wickedly cool' products and solutions that make always-on entertainment and communication a reality for consumers.

Ari Fleischer

Nepal is fighting a Maoist rebellion, and Nepal is an example, again, of a democracy, and the United States is committed to helping Nepal.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

John Bailey

My instinct is that it is deeply learned sitting at the table listening to one's parents. Police are there to be avoided.

Edgar Winter

My favorite songs are those that are most deeply personal and emotional for me, and they include the love songs that I've written for Monique.

Harry Whittington

My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney has had to go through this past week.

William Tucker

My family and I are deeply and profoundly thankful for the honor and recognition of my wife's lifelong work. After all of her efforts to make the nation and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania a better place to live, this is a deserving tribute. As her husband, I know that she was one of the greatest women that God ever gave to this planet.

Jim Calhoun

Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Ben Jackson

Last year we were focused on going to states and this year we're more taking it one game at a time,

Barry Alvarez

Many times it's the teams that stay the most focused that win the games. There's a lot of potential to be distracted.

J. Lewis

Scott is a great leader and teammate. He is focused and hard-working, but also genuinely nice and fun to be around.

Ronnie Peacock

Several schools are calling. They're just now getting around it. They're still focused on next week. After that, they'll jump on the juniors.

John Breeding

So, it's back to practice for us on Monday. The thing I like is that we have three weeks to get things sorted out before sectional. We saw what we need to work on. Now, we just have to focus on it.

Brian Seymore

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Scott Luster

Moving Lindsay outside forces defenses to honor the left side and that means they can't focus on our middle or the right. Lindsay on the outside gives us the outlet we needed.

Bill Cowher

Maybe we focus better. Maybe there's a sense of urgency. We've been the underdogs and our guys relished that.

Todd Hultquist

Meal times are such a focus for Hispanic families.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Gustavo Kuerten

My goal now is to be fully recovered and to be in great shape I need, at least, six weeks of intense work,

Janne Niinimaa

Obviously those names are not at the level of the names we lost, if you look at them on paper, ... But they are fully qualified.

Jeff Bagwell

For so long, it's been, 'OK, he's playing first base. Don't even worry about him in spring training. But it's a different story now, and I fully understand that. That part has been a little weird for me, but that's the way it is right now.

Raymond Kelly

fully executed ... so it's possible there could be more arrests.

Mahmoud Abbas

fully accounted for and used in the way it was intended.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97% back now, ... It is very hard. ... Chemotherapy is so hard on a person. And I would say I'm fully recovered, yeah.

Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

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.

Warren Farrell

Men are not human beings,they are human doings

Ivonne Sanchez

Men is able to clonate a human body, but will never be able to clonate a human soul

Tom DeLay

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

John Kricfalusi

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Lydon

My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Jasmine Guy

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Barbet Schroeder

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Ann Landers

Are you better off with him or without him?

Anita Bryant

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Adrienne Rich

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

Fiona Apple

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

Catharine MacKinnon

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Erica Jong

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Neil Levine

We don't have any specific allocation for it yet.