Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Barry

We are all the same page, striving for the same goal. There is great team unity amongst this bunch.

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

We're seeing alliances, not mergers, among leaders, which reflects clearer thinking about what is good.

Steve Frank

We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.

We've tried to let them work out their differences among themselves. It hasn't worked. We're going to take the bull by the horns and go forward with this.

Anthony Shadid

Time and again, I am struck by how seldom I hear the word, hurriya , 'freedom,' in conversations about politics in the Arab World, ... Much more common among Arabs is the word, adil , 'justice.'

Peter Abrahams

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Robert Emmet

When Ireland takes her place among the nations of the earth, and not 'tll then, let my epitaph be written.

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

Siobhan Davies

We need to find the money to do it again, but there was such a genuine interest among the dancers who did come forward that I feel we should.

Unlike in past years, we are deep at every position. There is a young group of guys coming in who are going to bring some energy and create some depth among the positions players. We've got an opportunity to use a different combination of players to attack any situation. If an opponent doesn't catch-and-throw that well, we'll go with our speed. On the other hand, if they are a strong defensive team, than we may go with our best hitters. I can see a lot of different guys making significant contributions this season.

Chris Duhon

We got together as a group -- just a little airing out -- and let everybody say what they had to say. So everybody had a night to think about it. You kind of have these things with the coaches at times, and sometimes players can hold back and not say what they really want to say. But once you're amongst the guys, you can get everything out.

We can attribute some of last month's decline to the rise in the Canadian dollar and increased concern among companies as to the impact this will have on export penetration and earnings, but at the end of the day the Ivey has never been a valued directional indicator because of its volatility and desks may partially dismiss the decline as a result.

We had excellent insurance, which at least was able to pay for rebuilding the club back to the way it was. But we also wanted to use the opportunity to make some improvements. So we had a limited bond issue among our members, and also took out a small mortgage. Even after all this, our equity-to-debt ratio is about 5-1, which is excellent for any organization.

Greg Graffin

When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.

Graydon Carter

Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well?

Marsha Thomason

I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.

Martin O'Malley

If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

We have an epidemic of credit card debt in this country, especially among 25- to 35-year-olds. So giving up the use of credit cards is one of the most effective sacrifices many people can make to contain their spending and work toward homeownership,

Richie Sexson

We could just as easily have swept that series. We played that first game tough, we just came out on the short end. But we're excited. We feel like we've got a great team. I know a lot of people don't, but we do. Amongst ourselves, we think we're going to do a lot of things right this year.

We know that the negative sentiments are more prevalent among the middle-aged rather than the young,

We have very good and sound information showing increases in high-risk behaviors among men having sex with men since 1999,

Mavis Staples

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

Peter Singer

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Patricia Marx

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

Penny Marshall

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.

Marcus Samuelsson

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Mario Monti

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

Ricky Jay

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

We have the slowest job growth among the states. People . . . are getting the wrong signal about the hospitality and the environment and the business climate of Illinois.

We had two opportunities; we could draw on the side with nothing on it, turn the thing over and there's this set of designs of, say, the electric circuitry of the school of engineering, and you could draw in amongst all this. So, architecture and cities, it's all there.