Famous Quotes & Sayings

Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Jurnee Smollett

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

Dan Buettner

I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.

Jose Rizal

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Isaiah Washington

I hate the term 'black' because it doesn't bring to life who we are as a people. The term 'black' has more negative synonyms than the term white.

We ran a couple of large-scale operations in the spring of 2004, during which we captured a large number of enemy combatants, Our system for releasing detainees whose intelligence value turned out to be negligible did not keep pace with the numbers we were bringing in.

We raised expectations and just fell short. I can't fault the players for their effort and application and now it's my job to bring in better players to help those who are staying with us.

Katie Smith

We put ourselves in a hole. Now we have to bring everything we've got for Friday. We know we have the talent to pull this off.

We do have a stacked team, and we did at the last Olympics as well. I think we'll bring home more than one medal as a team.

We don't bring anything that puzzles anybody. I don't think you can look over a six-game stretch and say this is why we won or lost. To me, it comes down to making a play. I thought our goaltending saved us.

When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I would be reading, for instance, if I was up in the White Mountains, I would have a collection of Hawthorne short stories. I'd be reading the stories by Hawthorne while I'm in the place that he's writing about - and then I'd be writing in my journal thinking about the literature and thinking about the place and trying to find where the two connect.

When I was younger I wasn't a big listener, ... But as you mature you get smarter. Hitch was right and now I'm listening to him and bringing it to the rink.

Scott Gomez

When Patty comes back it's going to help, but we've had a pretty good stretch here and we did get a point. Hopefully, when he comes back he'll bring that energy again.

When new people come into an organization, they bring new ideas and thoughts, and question long-held beliefs.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

We will follow up with Disney in the fall. We're hopeful that Disney will bring some of the actors in as well.

Kathleen Blanco

We will do what it takes to bring law and order to our area. I'm just furious. It's intolerable.

We will demonstrate to the minister of public enterprises how 'misguided' we can be on March 6, when we will bring commuter transport, freight export lines, business units and subsidiaries, including SA Airways, to a complete standstill for 24 hours.

We will defeat this if this comes to the floor. I suspect they won't even bring this to the floor.

We will continue talks tomorrow. We will make efforts so that we will be able to bring about concrete results tomorrow.

We would never be able to do that if we were bringing everything from off-shore.

We would have liked to see a peacekeeping force stood up yesterday. But there's a lot of moving parts to this. It is important to bring on as many people as possible. And that's got to take time.

Yoweri Museveni

This summit should bring peace to the Congo, ... We have to work toward democracy in the Congo because the lack of democracy is the source of this problem. That is our main challenge.

This sale is consistently at the top of the lists of stakes winning percentage. And good horses will bring back repeat buyers.

Alan Parker

This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a close.

Briann January

This rivalry is intense and everybody is just going to bring it. It's Senior Night and we just have to get it done.

Sebastian Coe

This represents a significant saving of public funds and we will strive to bring the same discipline to the financing of the games,

This report increases pressure on the government and the Turner Commission to bring forward radical proposals to tackle the future of pensions.

This report brings together our latest thinking on the key developments and credit outlooks of the major financial services sectors in Taiwan. This report also addresses the rating implications of the emergence of financial holding company (FHC) groups since late 2001.

This report brings to a close a difficult period for Cendant employees and shareholders alike. The investigation has identified how a group of people at CUC deliberately deceived and misled investors and business partners -- and reveals a corporate culture that encouraged this behavior.

There hasn't been much talk about (last year), which is actually nice. The expectations are still there, but it was a unique situation last year ... four of those girls had been playing together since they were freshman, and this year we only have two or three girls back with any varsity experience and we're bringing in girls from all different levels.