Famous Quotes & Sayings

Freda Adler

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

Peter Clarke

Since July, the pace of investigation, the scale of the threat has not diminished in any way whatsoever.

Rory Stewart

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Eduardo Galeano

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Ben Gibbard

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

William Sullivan

We knew the economy slowed down, and there was evidence from some of the monthly price statistics that inflationary pressures diminished during the period.

Conrad DeQuadros

While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wednesday's) CPI report, it will nonetheless be important,

Brian Foley

As a practical matter, the options have, for the moment, substantially diminished value, if any.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Charles Spurgeon

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Dennis Prager

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Democritus

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Denis Diderot

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Edgar Allan Poe

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

Edgar Allan Poe

And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Karl Dorrell

Make one or two more plays than they do.

Terry Teachout

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor.

Bret Bielema

Obviously, you've seen him make plays out there. He's going to make some for them (opponents), unfortunately. We're trying to get those out of his system.

Jeff Banks

We had backups ready to go. We charted his plays to see how many times he touched the ball, worried about overusing him.

Alex Barashkoff

I don't think he was rattled. Big plays come with more experience. We're a young team and we need to get better.

Augie Garrido

If we play our best, and the other team plays its best, and they win, then congratulations to them.

Plaxico Burress

I make those plays every day in practice. I just didn't make it.

Jason Richardson

I'm a jumper, he's a passer. So there's going to be some spectacular plays going on.

Michele Jackson

She understands that if she plays well, this team plays well. Defensively, she buckled down and the rest of them followed.

Robb Quinlan

If we're going out and scoring one or two runs a game, it is tough to win ballgames.

Bob Baffert

Sinister Minister, you can't control. He just runs off. . . . He's a runaway train.

Lane Kiffin

We had our backups and we like to play somewhat realistic. We had about six straight runs before that.

Gus Frerotte

Yeah, that would be nice. That's kind of how it goes, how it should be. The world doesn't stop turning. Eventually, your time runs out.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.

Alan Trammell

We didn't score any runs. We had opportunities to score runs and we didn't do it. That was it.

Kristin Mulhall

We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.

Pat Smith

We've done test runs on and off for two years now. When someone comes to you and says they want ferry service for Newburgh-Beacon, you get right up there and test it.