Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Some time ago, nature changed the world as I knew it. It left no apologies, no remorse... waves and winds leaving me with nothing to call my own. Or so I thought. Now five years later, I look back and see all what it has given me. Courage, resilience, empowerment... the list goes on and on. Things that no one can ever take away from me. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

Ricardo Lagos

Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings: the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting.

Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Some people might call a chicken a duck, but it's still a chicken.

Someone sitting up at midnight can't call me - but they can certainly go to their Web page and enter a request for some materials or information, and that's very helpful.

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

Some farmers haven't gone through the certification process so we call it unsprayed or naturally grown.

Carol Berg

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Some people would call that 'socialized medicine,' but it's simply a program into which you and your employer would pay.

Some people will say this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Others will say you can call it a fee all you want but you're taxing me more.

Drew Brees

So to be able to come out and go, 'Well, I guess I know when they call the first team, it's me,' that feels good.

Special teams in the playoffs are always huge. The power play and penalty kill are always going to win you games, especially if they keep calling penalties like this and there's going to be a lot of them.

Joe Arpaio

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

One guy whose phone was programmed for the theme song from 'The Sting' was getting calls every five minutes. We couldn't figure out which phone it was to turn it off.

One guy we'll call up for sure is Marcus Thames .

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed.

No way. If this is the result, we'll call for an independent investigation. We'll call on the City Council to make it illegal to spy on peaceful and political community groups.

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Now if he doesn't call a special election before Nov. 7, we here in the south of Houston region will be without a congressman in the middle of hurricane season while the country's at war and the whole immigrant reform debate is going on on Capitol Hill. This is an effort to give Tom DeLay a chance to handpick his successor and give him time to catch up to the campaigning that's already been done in this district.

Black Elk

Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.

Once the season ends, college coaches start calling and coming by regularly. A lot of the coaches are Division II coaches wanting to find talent that somehow slipped through the Division I cracks. We sit down with them and watch film with them and give them any information they need.

The more it rains, the more calls we get.

The money has been rolling in. People have been calling and we haven't even started working on fundraising yet.

William Shakespeare

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let them play.

Deering did a great job. It was more of physical game than we expected. When they weren't calling fouls in the first half, we could score, but when they were calling fouls in the second half, we couldn't score.

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Compared to the United States, ... there is no clear message from the CDU about an individualist, market-oriented economic policy. The program is piecemeal. It's not a vision. It's a sort of muddling through. These are programs that may help give some economic benefits, but it's definitely not something that you could call a conclusive economic program.

Barry Alvarez

Coach Mason could have taken a safety, but that's his call and I'm not going to second-guess him.

Coach (Jack) Easley scouted this game, and our kids were calling the plays just like (Nebraska) were. We were energized and when you play good defense it helps your offense and when you play good offense it helps your defense.

Roman Harper

Coach had a great scheme coming in. We knew we were going to play a lot of man, throw a lot of different calls at them. Coach made all the right calls in there.

Zack Crockett

Coaches call that fresh legs. You've got a guy who's anxious, when he hears his number called, he'll be ready to go. He hasn't gotten much of a chance this year, so you know he's hungry. When you've got one guy who's been carrying the load, then you spread it around, guys will be happy around here. It's going to be a great thing.