Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Jackson

We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

Samuel Smiles

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Blaise Pascal

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Doug Liman

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

Thomas Day

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Edmund Burke

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one

Steve Leahy

Most people in Seattle do not know him. But we have, in many ways, this love, admiration, envy and curiosity for him. He's doing a bunch of good stuff with his money.

Auguste Rodin

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Stephen Merchant

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

Gwen Stefani

The people who worked at the clubs just assumed I was a tagalong girlfriend or groupie. I'd get up on stage and the audience was just like, 'Show me your tits!' I had nothing to show anyway.

Hugh Douglas

We always assumed he was coming here. When we found out, it was like, 'Wow!' But nothing surprises me anymore. It's a business.

Tim Salmon

We were totally in Chicago's position. We led the whole way, and for a long time, it was just assumed that we were going to play in the postseason.

Maripol

When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.

Bob Grimes

We would see nothing but men coming in and trashy dressed women. We just assumed that that's what it was.

Norman Schwarzkopf

We knew they had them, ... We had some very definite locations, particularly the production facilities... As far as the front-line ammo depot and where they might and might not have been located, we didn't know, and therefore we assumed every single one of them had chemical weapons.

Mike Mason

There are people out there who, when they took their desks, assumed they could remain in their position as long as they performed well in that position. That is no longer the case.

David Brown

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.

Kevin Henkes

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Jimmy Williams

We are aggressively seeking all sources of funding. We are looking at grants and other options. We really don't have (funding) identified as of yet.

Charlize Theron

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

Debbie Horne

We grant wishes for 2- to 18-year-olds with life-threatening medical conditions.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Jane Jacobs

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Jeff Lemire

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

Tom Wolfe

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Granth Sahib

O Lord, Life of the World, please shower me with Your Mercy; grant me the Sanctuary of the Guru

E. B. White

She would request one of these options, but it's up to the military judge to grant the request,

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, if someone judges himself, only then is he known as a real judge.

Warren E. Burger

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Charles Grassley

only want judges who will do their political bidding on the bench, regardless of what is required by the law and the Constitution.

Lord Hailsham

Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

David Frum

Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.

Jaymie Pedigo

Judges can come from the community; they don't have to be scientists.

Michel Gauthier

Mr. Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Stephen Kinzer

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

John McEnroe

I think it can. The powers that be, IMG, the ATP, need to work together more coherently.

Michel Gauthier

Harper said several times that he did not want to centralize, that he wanted to respect the powers of the provinces.

Brian Kelly

We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.

Walter Rodgers

powers at work about which we have no knowledge.

Buzz Hargrove

If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?

Matt Mauck

All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Denis Waitley

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Edward Gibbon

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.