Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Savenkov

Regrettably, beating has become a typical method of dealing with subordinates in the military.

Viktor Yushchenko

Standing day and night in the frost ... the heart of Ukraine was beating in this square. Free people all over the world ... were supporting us.

Tim Brewer

Our schedule is really no different than last year as far as being harder or easier. The difference is some of the teams we don't play were worth some points and other teams were beating them. I thought the kids were really peaking down the stretch and playing really well.

Tony Dungy

Pittsburgh was 15-1 last year, so beating them is huge,

Buck Showalter

I'm happy for Brad, he has been beating himself up.

Bob Hamley

We've talked about what we have to do to be in the upper echelon in the West, and beating Calgary is one of those things. We haven't completed 60 minutes in a game and we need to get four full quarters in.

Gerard Butler

Well, at the end of the day it's about beating England!

Adam Schoenfeld

I think they are beating Barnes and Noble to the punch in many cases, but they shouldn't be worth six or seven times Barnes and Noble. That's where rationality has divorced itself from the stock market.

Dan Hahn

I think there's more pressure on the kids who keep beating the same kid. The other guy has nothing to lose, so you have to constantly work to improve.

William Jenkins

Regionalism presented some obstacles in the past, ... But the boundaries are beginning to disappear and we have this wonderful, intellectual synergism.

Bill Daly

Our partnership with NASN represents a significant step by the league to re-establish its relationship with its existing European-based fans, as well as begin the process of developing new ones.

Brendan Gilfillan

Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we have the resources to preserve it ... we have to exert fiscal restraint and begin fixing our chronic budget shortfalls.

Walter Pater

Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.

Jerry York

Patrick had a very productive career here at BC and we wish him all the best as he begins his professional career.

Nicholas Burns

Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.

Fran Foley

Part of the plan from the beginning was to take pressure off the draft. The plan is coming together.

Jay Grymes

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

Pauline Flynn

Peace is possible. It begins with a vision or dream and comes through persistence, hard work and belief in ourselves.

Francis Skrenes

People love sitting in this chair and I hope that we can give something back to the community.

Mike Tyson

Standing in front of Chairman Mao's remains, I felt really insignificant. To have the chance to visit the memorial hall is a great honor for me.

Ryan Moses

Some of our county chairs have said that if Jeanine was not the candidate, we should reach back out to Ed, and that's something we'll be talking about within the party. John Spencer is also out there right now, running for the nomination.

Andrew Gray

Our focus has been on having a hearing and putting the Senate in a position to move on the nomination prior to the expiration of Chairman Greenspan's term,

Anthony Chan

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

H. Hunt

Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd m

Walter Harrison

That was new evidence to me and it was very helpful. Coming from the chairman of the tribe, we found that to be very compelling.

Stephanie Herseth

I was particularly pleased to hear the chairman recognize the economic impact on the community was exacerbated by the rural installation Ellsworth is.

Rekalin Sims

It got kind of crazy. He just threw a chair and we bum-rushed him.

Joseph Towle

went publicly and conveyed this material to the lawyers. At this point the seal of confession is not in play.

Joe Kalinowski

I think the worst of the confession season is over.

Lee Siegel

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Robert Udell

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

The Talmud

Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession

Hamish Bowles

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

Anatole France

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Andre Grant

This is the most reckless and vicious prosecution that I have ever witnessed. There has been no confession whatsoever.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

Ayn Rand

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Miley Cyrus

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

Aimee Bender

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Linda Lingle

They really put up with a lot and I think they're just at the end of their rope right now,

Karl Marx

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Margaret Atwood

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Muhammad Ali

Stay away from the ropes

Bill Crawford

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

Carl Jung

Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required.

Gary Williams

We had a wide-open 3 to tie it up and we didn't make ours.

Carl Sandburg

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Elizabeth Bowen

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Chuck Schumer

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Aldo Leopold

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

Albert Einstein

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.