Famous Quotes & Sayings

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

I have a strong feeling about integrative care, about working closely with other people besides other doctors, ... Integrative care, I think, is where it's going. I think it gives people a broader spectrum of care, and a broader spectrum of the way in which people can look at themselves and look at their health.

I have a ton of community service done. Besides it being a requirement for high school and college, I love to volunteer. I do the Relay for Life every year, which is a fundraiser for cancer.

Taslima Nasrin

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!

Keith Brooking

I feel great about it so far. We're growing as a unit, progressing every week. When you have new faces and new guys playing in there beside you, it takes training camp and preseason games for you to gel.

I can't play golf for a while. I'm upset about it. That's the only thing I do besides coaching basketball.

Jason David Frank

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

I don't have any plan because meetings should have a purpose and we've already discussed our positions. So I'm not sure of the purpose to have a meeting, besides (that) I'm in Tokyo.

Moustapha Akkad

I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.

I don't know what to do with them besides put them out with the regular trash.

I don't know what hitting uninhabited land accomplishes besides scaring the children. But then again, I'm not the defense minister.

I am dedicated to finding out what happened, I can feel Tracy beside me, pushing me I have the strength of two people, and I'm going to find who did it.

My main gripe with suicide bombers, besides the fact that they usually aren't on my side of an issue, is that they don't really do it with any showmanship. They just walk in, usually hunched over and wearing ugly clothes, and BOOMO! They blow themselves, and others, up. Why can't we see some dude run in wearing just a cowboy hat and chaps, spank at one of his ass cheeks and yell, "I got enough C4 in my ass to level a city block! Wooooooooo!" and then blow up.

One team's (18-3) and one team's (16-3). Contrary to what people might think, other teams practice besides ours and enter the game with the will to win also.

Rainer Maria Rilke

One must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises.

Retief Goosen

One hole, you could hear the birds singing away, like there's nobody on the course. It's definitely a lot quieter out there than you normally hear around Augusta, besides the one big cheer we heard. And we obviously all knew that was Tiger.

Tess Gerritsen

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

Obviously we see (the out-of-town scoreboard) in the stadium. You look at the time and it's right there beside it.

Of course that meant I had to take the EMT Course at Bladen Community College, which I really enjoyed. I learned first aid, which has come in handy numerous times, even when I wasn't on call. For example, I was eating in a nice restaurant in Wilmington and a person collapsed at the table beside us,

Jess Walter

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Issa Rae

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'

With Castillo out, Freddy's shown he's more valuable as an everyday player than part-time. Besides playing well at second and short, he's played excellent third base. It's like having two shortstops on the left side.

Danny McBride

And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people besides my immediate friends.

Malcolm X

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

Edward Rutherfurd

I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.

Ethel Percy Andrus

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Emma Bonino

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.

Erin Cummings

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Brian O'Driscoll

Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.

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