Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to take place, and an altered country begins to emerge.

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Charlie Worsham

My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those moments when you think you know what it might sound like, but you don't, and then you hit it, and it's a total surprise. You hear it with really fresh ears. Alternate tunings, for me, they give that back.

Martin Klebba

My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.

Konrad Lorenz

One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever

Rhea Perlman

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

Leonard Orr

My goal really was to build what I called one-year seminars, which were spiritual communities that lasted for at least a year. It was really an alternate spiritual family, because the one-year seminars produced lasting friendships that were more intimate than blood ties. The one-year seminar idea is really the most powerful thing that I created.

My gut feeling is that there has been sufficient movement to merit supporting it in principle - at second reading - but I want to leave open that there may be things that need to be clarified or altered or amended at committee stage.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices.

Alan Greenspan

new innovations have begun to alter the manner in which we do business and create value, often in ways not readily foreseeable even five years ago.

The plan is to put the Aladdin on a higher plane than it has been, to alter and broaden the customer base from what it has been enjoying, and to present a more edgy and trendy face to the public.

Kurt Braunohler

I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.

Matt Murphy

She blocked a lot of shots and she altered a lot more. She really disrupted teams.

She finishes in traffic better than anyone. She can alter her shot, but still gives herself a high percentage shot.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

She is the most unselfish person in the whole world. She really was. She was willing to alter her whole lifestyle for Cody.

Most people think computers when they think technology. We fight that all the time and what people perceive technology to be. Technology is a process of altering the natural world to satisfy human wants and needs.

Bruce Campbell

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

She was playing really good. She was a trooper and went back in there, but she was in a great deal of pain and it altered our post substitutions.

She was a trooper, she went back in there, but obviously she was in a great deal of pain at that point. It altered our post substitution. She was having such a great first half.

Richard Phillips

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

Henri Pirenne

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

Virginia Postrel

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.

Lindy Booth

I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Nina Bawden

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.

Laura Anne Gilman

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Kate Bernheimer

With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Theodore Zeldin

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

Bill Walsh

When he begins to find his second, alternate and outlet receivers, when he moves out of the pocket and stretches the pocket to hit those guys, that's when he'll start taking defenses apart. There's a total upside to everything he does. He'll demonstrate that this year, especially with the gifts Michael has that are so spectacular.

Monica Crowley

In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.