Famous Quotes & Sayings

If this is the beginning and the end, this is less than a drop of the bucket.

If this is introduced in the beginning of next session, then I think there's reason for concern.

Richard Gephardt

If this happens, it is to me the beginning of moderate Republicans figuring out that there is no place for them in the modern Republican Party,

Thomas Reid

If we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation till it grows up to the use of reason, how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opin-ions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection, this would be a trea-sure of natural history which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them from the beginning of the world.

If we continue to roam, with no strength to enforce the law right at the beginning of our independence, by the time corruption develops deep roots it will be most difficult to combat it,

Joey Harrington

I have had good talks with all three of them. From the beginning I have always said I want to play where I am wanted and the money is secondary. We will continue to talk.

Gail Collins

There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

We knew we had to win that match. We were both at .500 when the day began and they were right behind us in power points.

We knew we had something special. We came out guns a-blazing with offense at the beginning of the year. We shattered all these records for goals ... our first line dominated. It was ridiculous.

We knew we could play with them. We knew that at the beginning of the season but we got killed by them twice this year. Tonight we made them suffer for the press and shut them down at the other end.

We left fundamentals, and only momentum began driving up the stocks, ... The binge had very little to do with economics. Investors were playing a very dangerous game.

Welcome to the cold reality. A lot of people selected short-term interest rate product and are now beginning to see how these things benefit the lender.

We're still very much in the beginning stages trying to determine if there is enough evidence, or basically, what the story is.

We're trying to stay mentally focused at the beginning of singles. We need to put an exclamation point on the doubles, and we did a better job of that today.

Will Allen

We're trying to put things together here. Hopefully this is the beginning of something special. It's about time we restored that pride thing to New York.

We're trying to jump-start the mobile Internet revolution, and our trials with users show us that when people download the browser they begin using the Web on their handsets more frequently. The biggest obstacle in growing use of the mobile Web to this point is the inability of other browsers to convert sites into something people are willing to look at, and that's what we believe the browser does best.

We're looking at a fairly rainy period for the state of Hawaii, mostly for Kauai and Oahu, beginning sometime tomorrow afternoon, late, and then running through Wednesday and possibly into Thursday moving down into Oahu.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

John Irving

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

John Henrik Clarke

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

Benjamin Percy

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

The real miracle of individuation and reclamation of the Wild Woman is that we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.

Jean Kerr

The real menace in dealing with a five-year -old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old

Kofi Annan

There are no winners, and there are no losers today, ... This moment heralds the opportunity for all East Timorese to begin to forge together a common future in what is to become an independent East Timor.

Frank Serpico

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Hilary Mantel

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

Hermann von Helmholtz

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.

Hu Shih

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

Doc Watson

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.