Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. D. Salinger

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.

J. I. Packer

Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

J. I. Packer

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

It was a tale of two nines. Everything just started to fall in line on the back.

Tim Finchem

It is our plan to include Hartford in the fall schedule.

Christine Whitman

It's a fallacy that the president only wants to hear from you if you agree,

It's time to buy. Short-dated debt, such as five- year notes, have fallen too much.

It's tough because we did better than most people expected. But the shots we missed today were the shots that were falling the last two games.

I want something to fall back on, ... just in case.

I try not to think about it. When you think about it, it puts a lot of pressure on you shooting the ball. You have to be free, just jumping up there, shooting your regular shot and hoping it falls for you.

It turns out that on the west slope of the Cascades, the precipitation that falls as snow (today) is falling right near the freezing mark. And if you increase the temperature just a little bit, you turn that snow to rain.

It turned out to be more than just me falling down over and over again.

Lindsay Whalen

I twisted my ankle. My whole left side is falling apart,

The volatility measures are falling with this snapback and there is a short-term shift in psychology -- there's a lot of bargain-hunting going on out there.

They are unstable and unpredictable. They could fall away at any time.

They weren't falling for them and I think part of that was we got them a little tired. We were running up and down the court; we rotated about ten guys in and that helped us quite a bit.

They have to have something to fall back on. It's by no means an alternative type of education.

William Young

They've had a strategic setback. Their old growth model seems to have fallen by the wayside because life science has fallen by the wayside. They haven't come up with a great strategy.

It's another responsibility of parenting that now falls on teachers. If parents would start doing their job at home, we wouldn't have this problem.

Jon Cooper

It's going to be tough from here on out. Every team we play has something to play for, and Wichita Falls is no exception. We're going to see every team's best, and that's going to be especially tough since we play our last nine games on the road.

It's hard to imagine that there's not going to be any long-term fallout from what happens.

It's hard to fall any more if you're already on the ground,

It's been a little overwhelming since it's the first time we've done it. But everything just kept falling into place.

It's good to see Intel lifting their revenue outlook. You need technology to fall into place, and in technology, the semiconductors are the engine.

Douglas Booth

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, ... I don't think people are going to fall for that one again.

John Schuerholz

The number of years in a row we've been predicted to fall out of first place. Happens every year.

It's not enough to know how to ride - one must also know how to fall

It's the community-dwelling seniors, people in their homes who have not fallen yet, who are, maybe, leaning toward a sedentary lifestyle. You tend to do less and less. It's this snowball effect.

Mao Zedong

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

Madeline Zima

Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.