Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

Michael Riedel

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

Rocky Nichols

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Harry Reid

I think it's right and proper for the Moderator to speak out on matters of great public interest. Too often in the recent past Moderators have failed to do so.

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

John Montgomery

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

Tony Leon

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

Fred Ketchen

Our natural resource sector is the thing that is moving us down.

Ralph Kauffman

Overall the report indicates that the non-manufacturing sector is moving right along. We seem to have recovered from the hurricanes, even though the index is down slightly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

Barry Manilow

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

Bill Shuster

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

Bill Shuster

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

Bill Engvall

It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign.

Bernie Sanders

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

C. S. Lewis

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

Tina Ruble

Our passing was much better than it has been in practice.

Keith Richard

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Frank Uryasz

Passing a drug test is very easy. All you have to do is not use drugs or dietary supplements.

Ashton Kutcher

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Charles Gabriel

That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.

Ernie Accorsi

That was really, to me, the passing of the torch, ... This was the second part of it.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

Sidney Crosby

I thought of passing it for a second.

George Speight

I think they're making themselves look stupid with every passing day. We will not be sidelined in this process.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

C. S. Lewis

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

Mark Rosenker

The train should have been slower we believe, when it made that crossover, that would be the way it was supposed to operate.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Mat Mladin

It was just a mishap with a slower guy. I was out there and had no where to go.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.

Leah Gingrich

(Saturday) I thought I was going slower than I was.

Greg Flores

They are sweeping up now. Everything is capped and plugged and cemented all the way up. It just went a lot slower than they thought it would.

Richard Greenberg

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

Christian Kane

You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.

Sean Salisbury

When you see yourself on a trailer at the movie theatre, you're kind of like, 'What? Man, this is amazing!' And it's a pretty significant role.

Kevin Collier

It will actually be on two flatbed trailers and will be able to go wherever they need us to go.

Casey Wilson

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Tilda Swinton

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

David Olsen

What most residents are getting right now are the truck lanes of the Internet.

David Hunter

We're just getting one truck (of fuel) a day,

Mike Schmitt

I think we were all pretty let down when we didn't find anything in the truck itself.

Hank Smith

We keep some on the truck at all times.

Lee Smith

Without these trucks here, I don't think we would have made it.

Tom Baxter

What is that truck doing here. That just infuriates me.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is a total disaster. And not only are your rates going up by numbers that nobody's ever believed, but your deductibles are going up, so that unless you get hit by a truck, you're never going to be able to use it.

Ally Carter

The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.

Barry Levinson

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Aldo Leopold

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

David F. Houston

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.