Famous Quotes & Sayings

The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?

The institute's hand should not tremble in calling the president's attention, in giving him a yellow (penalty) card.

This is dangerous because the networks are calling into question their own medium.

Derrick Brooks

After that, I'm calling myself everything but a child of God,

It's not about numbers. The only numbers that matter are (how many) people in the country are finding out about this issue and calling the White House, the governor and other elected officials.

Stanley Hauerwas

In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need you to take seriously the calling that is yours by virtue of going to college.

Initially, when this thing first hit, and everyone suddenly realized what kind of tragedy was down there, people were calling me like helter skelter, ... asking, 'Can we do this? Can we do that?' And, we were saying, 'Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.' Then, we took more control over it.

I know we will need personal hygiene items and international telephone calling cards to keep in contact with our families.

I keep calling them the cardiac kids. They keep doing this to me, every time. But they all stuck together, they had the heart, the determination to finish the win.

I kept calling to try and go out with her. Her mother kept screening the calls.

Jim Furyk

I made it the first three or four holes before calling for a physiotherapy guy to come out, ... Honestly, if they didn't come out, I wouldn't have made it the whole round.

Chris Colfer

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

Not calling it anything yet. I've got to make sure it works first.

Carol Bellamy

not calling for a lifting of sanctions as such, because we cannot. That is not our jurisdiction.

Abraham Lincoln

No. The mule has just four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

It was pretty easy to score within the offense. Coach (Fox) was calling the plays and I was making my shots.

Bill Lester

It's what I've been working long and hard for. It's been determination, perseverance, persistence, overcoming obstacles. I'm no spring chicken and most of these guys are calling it a career at this age. But I would like to think I'm still on the rise.

It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.

The U.S. (market) is still stuck in a rut. We are calling the Dow up on the day, but so far every rally in the pre-market this week has been met with selling once the regular trading session got under way,

John Parsons

The vast majority of members feel to be of service to the community is part of our calling and faith. And we feel we can do it in a better way if we can pool our resources.

They are one of the most important parts of this program. There is so much going on even outside of football. There is film work, study halls, calling players at home to make sure things are okay. There is just a lot of work to be done.

They are long gone, and people are still calling in droves. They just went like hot cakes.

Brandon Rush

They were calling me up until a week or so before I decided to go to Kansas. I even took an unofficial visit there.

Steve Smith

They were saying everything, calling us all kinds of stuff.

Joe Carnahan

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

There's no question it's going to be frustrating. He's used to calling his own shots, and he's not going to be in that position.

Jaret Wright

There's no calling in sick now, ... You've got to get out there.

There's not going be any signs with crude remarks calling names, that's not what this is about.

Todd Herzog

The unique thing is that the success of the two programs really goes hand in hand. We've had a lot of colleges calling this year. The success we've had really has opened doors, not only for these wrestlers but for the ones in the future.

We'll see if I can fire him up on Wednesday, how about that? Are you calling him a kinder, gentler Ritchie?

Karen Walker

They're close, they are local - not national. When you have a question, often you are calling people that you actually know. . . . They know the schools, they know the borrowers, they know the state economy, they know the guaranteeing agency, and that's all a plus in our book.

They're calling us. We've been trying to flag them down, and now they're calling us.

They're calling it a spring training shoulder. It's something a lot of players get this time of year. We expect him to be able to play Thursday.