Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Toombs

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

Arthur Conan

Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.

Sathya Baba

Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Charles Dickens

Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Robert Toombs

Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.

Charles Dickens

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.

Michael Morpurgo

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Robert Rainy

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.

Rohit Shetty

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Phil Bloomer

Manifesto commitments mean nothing unless they are followed by action to deliver them. Despite progress at the EU and the Commonwealth last year, the UK is failing to use its influence at the UN to push for tighter controls on the international arms trade. The UK started out as one of the leaders behind the idea of the treaty but has since failed to show leadership at the UN to make it a reality.

Havelock Ellis

Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos

Atharva Veda

Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Robert Nardelli

makes it necessary to take actions to ensure our continued worldwide leadership.

Brian McClung

Major League Baseball wants to see a resolution to the stadium situation. They didn't discuss specific actions they might take. They're interested in seeing the ball move forward on a ballpark." ()

Sathya Baba

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

M. Wolfe

Sen. Brownback went off to one direction. I drove into another direction. Another group went into another direction. We went up and down the camps and just kinda left people -- and finally got alone. Then in three of the camps, there were no minders with us,

Charles Caleb

Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the

Erik Christensen

My first three camps I never had a goal. Sometimes, you get nights where pucks sort of follow you around and everything you shoot goes in the net. I am not complaining. I am proud I had a decent start to the camp and hopefully I am making an impression.

Deborah Dawson

When I made him go to culture camps, he hated it. And today, that's why he does such a good job at the Korean cultural camps (where he's an aide) because he can relate to the kids who don't want to be there. He knows what's in their hearts.

Stephen Murray

Nearly two million people live in internal displacement camps which are cesspools of disease and violence.

Robert Matsui

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Wayne Grant

If we got anything out of playing in the 7 on 7 camps this summer, it was finding a safety to take some heat off (quarterback) Alonzo Foster. We found that Kevin Marshall could play safety.

Mavis Gallant

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

Brad Davis

I'd always heard big-league camps are relaxed and easy. He's making me better and that's what I want.

Kyler Hall

We're not disappointed in A.J. at all. He's our teammate and he's our brother. You never want to see one of teammates get in a situation like that. I haven't had the chance to speak with him, but I would like a chance to before the game, just to let him know that we're all with him. I'm pretty sure he knows that already though.

Dick Vermeil

We're not concerned about the playoffs. Right now our concern is playing well Saturday. That's all that matters. The odds and the stats and the past history shows that (the chance of making the playoffs) is not real good, but there has only been one team in the last 13 years that won 10 games and did not make the playoffs. We have a chance to win 10, but you can't do that until you win No. 9. For us, it's all about Saturday.

Mike Conners

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Scott Sickau

Like I always tell my girls, a lot of people always wish they could go do something but they never get the chance of doing it. I may never get rich, but it's like getting on the back of a stallion with no saddle. You get on and hang on and see where it's going to take you.

Oronde Gadsden

Like everyone else in here, I hope those two moves are the moves that help us get past that playoff level to the next level. They had a chance to get Ricky, and they went out and did it. And it's like everybody says, we're going to ride him until the wheels fall off.

Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Phil Simms

Make Denver make the decision here. In other words, put pressure on Mike Shanahan. What's he gonna do? Is he gonna run it and maybe waste a down because it might not gain a lot of yards, or does he take the chance and throw it and if it's incomplete it stops the clock. That's what the Patriots are hoping for.

Carlos Zambrano

Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.

Frank Sinatra

Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

Ron Gardenhire

Lew gave it everything he had. It's not like he could've done anything different. We didn't get it. That's just the way it's going.

Guo Shurong

Many veteran craftsmen gave up their jobs of making New Year pictures in previous hard years.

Stan Heath

Sean (McCurdy) gave us some valuable, valuable minutes, too.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

L.A. Reid

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

Angel Guzman

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Brian Aldridge

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Laveranues Coles

When you're a quarterback, I think that's the most important thing for you to get the opportunity to get out and not only show the world, but show yourself and prove to yourself that you still have everything.

Chris Cuomo

We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.

Daniel Adair

I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Charles R. Swindoll

While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Joe Kines

I did a poor job. That's my fault. That's not the players job, that's my fault.

Tommy Taylor

One of the players said that we couldn't make anything and (Republic was) making everything.

Larry Brown

I wish this would get over. It's really about the players and us getting better.

Jody Bronson

I was pleased with the way a lot of our players performed.

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Steve Cobb

We know (the next) rookies of the year are on those (AFL) fields, we just don't know who they are yet.

Earl Campbell

I did some good things as a rookie.

Larry Brown

I thought they were a little tired, ... and then I thought down the stretch, I don't want to put the rookies in a tough situation like that.

Don Shula

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Adrian Beltre

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

Charles Spurgeon

I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

Charles Olson

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

Dean Young

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

Edgar Allan Poe

...the sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self...

Ozzie Guillen

I did it because we had a bullfight one day, and I didn't want to go to spring training. I got all the excuses.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Ben Jonson

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

Marissa Chovanec

Many of them play on the same travel teams and know each other well.

Eric Ferguson

SEC teams are going to make runs. That just happens. It's part of the game, man.

Steve Segadelli

Of all the teams I've coached, I don't think I've had a team that is this great.

Kordell Stewart

My contributions to the team won't be worth much, not being the guy,

Shawn Williams

My hat's off to them. That team there should've been in the top 10 during the season.

Craig Patrick

Obviously, the nucleus of our team is a lot younger.

George Nessman

We had breakdowns in our zone defense. We're not a team that can play from behind.

M. Wolfe

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football,

Chris Crutcher

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could. It's like playing ball in some way. There are guys on the team, like Cody, I'd give my life for. But you have to be willing to lay down your life for all of them if you want to put the best you on the field. Every guy on that field has to believe you'll bring nothing back off the field with you.

Charles R. Swindoll

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Denis Lavant

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

Eleanor Tomlinson

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

Abdus Salam

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Deena Kastor

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.