Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Chapman Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Carrie Brownstein

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

Carrie Fisher

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Carrie Fisher

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

Carrie Fisher

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Carl Paladino

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

Bill Bryson

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.

Bethany Hamilton

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

Bethany Hamilton

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

Ashton Kutcher

I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal.

Anthony Storr

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

I think they stepped it up, and we didn't. They were putting high pressure on us, and we were just falling back.

Mira Nair

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

I think these appropriations are very necessary and very straightforward. These appropriations fall within revenues that have been projected.

Kevin Stallings

I think there have been some teams that played better than some expected. I think Florida and Tennessee would fall into that category. Georgia has played very well, too, so I think there are a lot of teams that have surpassed expectations.

I think the relative presence of the Tokyo Game Show has been falling so I should do something about it.

Darrell Waltrip

Just being out here and hanging out and working has been good. I hate starting that far back, but if the tires don't fall off, we'll be OK.

Just as they walked past (the pile), the snow slid. It didn't fall on (Sebastian) -- it pushed him like a wave.

Dwyane Wade

Last year, he just lost weight. And I think at the end of the year that kind of took a toll on him because he didn't have that strength that he used to, to fall back on. ... Shaq is motivated to do something better and help the team.

Bill Vaughan

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

Bertrand Russell

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.

Bertrand Russell

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

Bertrand Russell

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

Bertrand Russell

In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.

Bertrand Russell

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

The answer, unless he falls flat on his face, is Abe. He's tall, he's nice-looking, he's young...He stands up for Japan and is tough on North Korea and China.

Jodie Foster

That was heartbreaking, to have that fall apart, two weeks before shooting,

Aaron Gray

That was a tough game. We played real hard. The shots just weren't falling tonight. It just wasn't our night.

That would have been nice. But the guy is falling down. I think Pat might have thought he couldn't even get the shot off. You don't want to foul. I thought that time was going to run out sooner.

Paul Douglas

That's three months of rain falling in one night, and there's no way the ground can soak that up. There will be serious runoff.

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

It gets better there and it gets better here, it falls there and we fall here.

Carl Edwards

I think we are fortunate this is the next race considering our position. I don't think we can fall much further back, so I think it's going to be fun race in California.