Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Goldberg

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Keith Lockhart

She's just an amazing, compelling performer. She has a wonderful vocal presence and really knows what to do with a song. She'll be fun. I guarantee it.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Tim O'Day

What we really do is tell entertaining and compelling stories, through our rides, shops, restaurants, entertainment, even our resort hotels.

Michael Gartenberg

There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.

Jerry Williams

When I was approached I realized that this has to be the face of the future not only for education but also for the health of American children. If the concepts are proven, Rochester will consider expanding such an experimental environment in one of our elementary schools.

Kevin Campbell

The only reason we would go forward with this concept is for the historical preservation of the property.

Paul Turner

The Powergen Cup is a great new concept for us and one everyone at the region is looking forward to,

Madison Jobe

Where the Mike's concept started was in smaller towns and has continued to develop in smaller towns, and we have done well with that.

Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Nick Woodman

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Niger Innis

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Hans Tietmeyer

We want to reach an overall concept in the foreseeable future,

Ollanta Humala

We want more investors to come, to rescue the concept of corporate social responsibility. We will be a government that respects foreign investments, that has a profound respect for private property and freedom of expression.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Bill Maris

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Sharon Stone

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Stephen Evans

Freedom exists in the experience of the perceiver; it is undeniably unique and scuttled by need for confirmation from others.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

George William Russell

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Eliseo Medina

People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.

John Brunner

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Craig Brown

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Peter Jackson

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

Cary Fukunaga

To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charles de Lint

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

Charles Dickens

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Dickens

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Stanley

God’s Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He’s promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He’s told you.

Charles Spurgeon

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Dmitry Medvedev

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Daymond John

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Billy Joel

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Edgar Friedenberg

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Anthony Trollope

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Diane Ackerman

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Stanley

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

Diablo Cody

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Bryan Adams

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Catherine Deneuve

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Luke Bracey

I like to think of myself as a romantic person!

William Shakespeare

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Diablo Cody

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Elizabeth Ashley

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.