Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Brandy Corbett

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.

Theo Van Gogh

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Kaskade

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Blake Lively

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

Sarah Hall

One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.

Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Mike Fazio

If the goal of the mural was to evoke interest, than I think it?s already a success.

Sufjan Stevens

I was working on several states simultaneously. The tone of the music for Illinois seemed much more exciting and challenging to me. The music itself seemed to evoke a very big character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Stephen Sisson

The things we read in scary stories are just using our imaginations to evoke a feeling. And sometimes that feeling is happiness or sometimes that feeling is surprise and sometimes that feeling is the spooky scary feelings of Halloween.

Angela Merkel

We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,

Joe Mullen

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Allen Iverson

We have to get it done, that's no excuse.

Dan Sanso

We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.

Ed Smith

We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.

Brad McClellan

We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Ray LaCroix

We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.

Kenny Johnson

I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have a connection. They fight like cats and dogs, but when they get in a really messed-up situation, they're there for each other.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Edward Albee

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Anna Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.