Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was now alone with a strange people, in a strange land. Our conversation so far as we had any was carried on by signs.

Mary Karr

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

I would not expect any far-reaching reforms like the flat tax to be planned let alone executed in this parliamentary period,

Joe Lhota

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Microchip stands alone among semiconductor companies by offering a no-cost, truly integrated development environment for 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers and 16-bit digital signal controllers, all the way from 6-pin to over 100-pin devices.

Esther Dyson

Microsoft's competition -- most of it has been pretty inadequate. I don't see any reason to think that -- with all due respect -- a bunch of government lawyers are going to be any more clever than your average company, let alone Microsoft,

Robert Thompson

Will & Grace' alone should make the argument that gay characters are by no means the kiss of death for a show. There's no sign that these kinds of characters are bad for ratings.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

Catherine McAuley

We have one solid comfort our hearts can always be in the same place, centred in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.

Al Capone

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Alan Parker

We believe there is potential for up to 4,000 rooms in the Gulf region alone over the next few years.

We believe there is no better content experience, let alone a sports experience. By really focusing on something, you tend to get deeper and better at that than if you do a whole lot of things. There will be no wireless service that will deliver a better sports experience.

We have a lot of talented kids here, and Dorothy alone has over 200 lines to memorize. The kids are very excited, very dedicated and they're working hard. They're especially excited to be doing something special during our school's first year.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

You are All-powerful; there is no other than You. You alone know Your condition and extent.

J. Taylor

We have to have heart and play as a team. Talent alone does not win games. Teams win games.

Using PSA alone results in millions of dollars being spent on prostate biopsies due to false positive results.

Edward Young

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall

Bill Clinton

virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.

Usually when our guys go up to shoot, they either make it or miss it, but they're all alone up there. Venable contested so many shots. I was very impressed with his spring.

We don't even know if there is a deal, let alone any financial terms. So, it's premature to make an assessment of whether this is a good deal or not. There aren't a whole lot of synergies to be found.

While 2006 earnings targets appear achievable, we are concerned with the projected sustainability of volume and margins at the core Auto division. Fiat is not alone in lowering costs within its industrial base. Rival volume makers such as VW, Renault, Peugeot-Citroen, GM and Ford will also make significant restructuring improvements. In addition, Japanese and Korean market share gains are set to accelerate, putting manufacturers like Fiat on the hot seat.

You alone know Your mystery; You are the Perfect Architect of Destiny. I am a helpless orphan - please keep me under Your Protection and save me.

You alone are the True Banker, O Lord; the rest of the world is just Your petty trader.

You alone are Perfectly Pure, O True Lord; all other places are filled with filth.

You alone are able to fully describe Your own divine glories, the manifestations, by which You exist pervading all the universe.

We exchanged photographs three months later and in January I went to Vegas for some temp attorney work, to play some poker and meet Jackie. The day before we met, we actually spoke on the telephone for the first time. I knew we had a connection, but didn't know where it would go. I'd never met anyone on the Internet before, let alone on a poker site. We only used IM for such a long time, but I felt the closeness between us.

We must remember that increasing living donation alone will not save enough lives. We must continue to educate the public about the importance of organ donation.

Molly Tarlov

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

Eliot Spitzer

Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.

We came pretty close, but we just couldn't get it closed. We just had to leave it alone for a while. We sort of got stuck, like you do when you can't get a deal. But we had a good productive meeting and we left on a good note.

Thomas Doll

We are not the No. 1 challenger for Bayern. People should leave us alone and let us work in peace here.

Grover Norquist

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.