Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Karl Hobbs

I thought we got out of the gate pretty early. Pops established our inside presence, which is what we wanted to do tonight due to the lack of experience among their inside guys.

I think we have always tried to let the athletes work this out among themselves, with us sort of getting in the middle and mediating, and I think suspensions for what happened this past weekend, it was discussed and we felt that the points and the fines were enough at that point.

Zoe Lofgren

I think we need to press for progress when it comes to the information-sharing environment, not just internally in the department but among all the various agencies.

I think we will observe a trend of mobile services replacing fixed-line services (in Russia). This trend would lead to the migration of long-distance traffic from regional fixed-line companies to mobile operators. In addition, competition among regional fixed-line operators for generated long-distance traffic will increase.

John Doe

I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,

Hugh Johnson

I think what the half-point cut showed was that the Fed for the first time appears to be taking the situation very seriously. I think investors are also still mulling the move and thinking what is it the Fed knows that they don't know. Could it be worries about a double-dip and deflation? It's this uncertainty, among other factors, that's the reason why we're down today.

John Bolton

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

Billy Bragg

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

Andrew O'Hagan

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

Andrew Lansley

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

Peter Agre

There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.

Claire McCaskill

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

Those are big shoes to fill, losing J. Rose. It showed in the deficit in this game. He brings a lot to this team, and I feel like if we had him amongst us, we could have had a different outcome.

Jason Marquis

To me watching him, the rhythm of his delivery is a lot smoother and a lot better. We talk among ourselves about things. Anything to help us get that extra edge we try to find. It looks like his delivery is smooth and not as choppy as it was last year. His first spring start of this year was better than any start he had last year.

We recognize that Families First represents a dramatic change in the way we do business. The greatest challenge is managing business among competing firms.

Joe Biden

... We're either going to share the cost with everyone, including the wealthiest among us by foregoing the tax cuts for the wealthiest, or we're going to put all the burden on the middle class.... We don't have to go forward with further tax cuts for the wealthy. There's a $70 billion tax cut in this particular budget. Permanently eliminating the estate-tax cut is a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Maybe we have to forgo those for the time being.

Hu Jintao

We should respect the right of all countries to independently choose their own development paths, promote greater dialogue and exchanges among civilizations in the spirit of democracy and equality,

Mohammad Khatami

We should know that one of the crimes by German national socialism was the massacre of innocent people and there have definitely been a large number of Jews among them.

Gary Bauer

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Wal-Mart has been at the forefront of that effort. Our company was among the first retailers in the industry to screen current associates with sex offender registries in every state that allows it.

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.

Bjorn Lomborg

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

Anatoly Chubais

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.

There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid.

Georgi Parvanov

I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

The prevailing idea among member countries is to maintain the official production ceiling of the organization.

Michelle Malkin

We were surprised by the extent of the problem, especially among the insured,

The only strength in the market today is among those stocks included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International index because people expect them to be buoyed by increased buying for a while.

Don Rickles

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

Dasha Zhukova

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.