Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Barack Obama

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The good thing about Amanda is she might get a little taller, and she'll definitely going to get stronger and faster. And that's going to allow her to do a lot of things on the court. She's just going to become - what I think is one of the premier players, if she chooses to - one of the premier players in Southeast Missouri.

The governor's experience was he could not successfully negotiate bipartisan reform budget reform in particular because the CTA did not allow legislative leaders to come to an agreement,

Venkaiah Naidu

The Governor's decision to allow him (Singh) this much time is undemocratic. Also, it may give the Congress an ample amount of time to attempt horse-trading. Therefore, we want that the vote should be held tomorrow itself.

The governor is allowing department heads to make out their own batting order, and he supports their own decisions.

Jan Egeland

The government must stop further evictions and be more flexible in allowing shelter and other programs for those affected. It must ensure that beneficiaries are assisted solely on the basis of need.

The government is now even trying to change the name of the joint mechanism to make it sound like a humanitarian thing... sorry, we will not allow it.

The government is just trying to sneak in single brand retail companies. The BJP will therefore oppose every attempt to allow FDI in this key sector.

The governments should invest in primary and junior middle school operations and staff salary payment. They are not allowed to depend on fees from students to run schools.

Pico Iyer

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Robert Smith

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

Rusty Schweickart

I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.

Ruth Bernhard

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Richard Stallman

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

Mary Ellen Mark

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Mary Leakey

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

Jeff Jones

We had our chances, but we couldn't capitalize on them. We allowed Emmanuel to get into its offensive rhythm throughout the game. We just didn't come out to play.

We'll probably be fairly small. The U.S. military will be the backbone of what will allow us to knock you out. Right now, the military has the most interesting things going on.

Rick Carlisle

We have the same group that played well and won the other night. We're not going to make excuses. Our undoing tonight was the first quarter when we allowed them to shoot over 77 percent. That got them going early.

We have the right team for the job at hand and it is time for me to allow them to grow even further and transition into the new roles that await them. It is because of these individuals, and the people they lead, that I leave Ford with confidence in the company's future.

We have talked quite a bit about trying to do things more efficiently, and a charter would allow us to improve the way we do things.

Jonathan Lee

We were happy we could build something for Brian that would allow him to pursue something he wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.

We were stuffing papers and during the conversation with another woman, Sacha said she was making a decision on whether or not to allow Gabe to see Caleb

Ben Howland

Typically if we get out-boarded by nine and shoot 5-of-13 from the foul line and allow someone to shoot 61 percent in the first half, we are not going to win. We gutted it out, found a way.

Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day.

Time and a lack of allowing penetration will be a key in this game offensively, while stopping the spread running and passing game is the key on defense.

Three members of a body that no one has ever elected should not be allowed to overturn the votes of millions of Londoners.

Thousands of producers prefer to sell cattle through marketing agreements, rather than in the cash market. The decisions in this case allow them to continue this practice, which they believe is more efficient and rewards them for raising cattle that produce the beef consumers demand.

Thousands of people would be only to happy to contribute to the UK economy if they were given some recognition and allowed to work while they are here.

Troy is playing well and has been - no doubt about that. But, the team has been limiting high scoring chances and allowing him to see the puck.

Renee Ellmers

Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

Carl Erskine

Today's managers don't give the starting pitcher a chance. Maybe this White Sox staff has re-proved something that was true all along. If the pitcher's in good shape, and he hasn't allowed too many runs, he can and should go all nine.